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method successfully even on young trees, and 

 that it would, generally speaking, be unwise to 

 attempt it. 



Professor Waugh of the Massachusetts Ex- 

 periment Station has done some important work 

 on dwarf fruit trees; the "Miniature Fruit 

 Garden " gives increasing promise, not only for 

 its better resistance to frost and later bud open- 

 ing, but for the beauty and convenience of these 

 cut-back pigmy trees. 



Fruits are second only to flowers in beauty and 

 variety. We have miniature orange trees for 

 decoration, why not baby apples and cherries 

 also? Surely, too, a bouquet of fruit would af- 

 ford as much scope for taste as one of " weeds." 

 Poetry clings about the tree: if the poet clings, 

 the profit might do it too. Think of the romance 

 as well as the money in grapes. 



No farm is complete without a grape-vine, 

 though only fruit enough for the family be 

 grown. The vine can be planted near the house 

 so as not to interfere with crops, and at little 

 expense an arbor can be built. This will provide 

 a cool, shady retreat in hot weather. Grapes 



