APPLES. 295 



in central Ohio and southern Pennsylvania, and other differ- 

 ences of latitude nearly in the same ratio. 



DWARF APPLES. 



For summer and autumn sorts, dwarf apples are valuable in 

 affording a supply to families. They begin to bear in two 01 

 three years from setting out, and at five or six years, if well 

 cultivated, will afford a bushel or so to each tree. A portion 

 of a garden as large as the tenth of an acre may be planted 

 with forty or fifty trees, without crowding. All the different 

 varieties of the apple may be made Dwarfs by working on the 

 Paradise or Doucin stock the former are smaller and bear 

 soonest ; the latter are large and ultimately afford the heaviest 

 crops. Among the handsomest growers as dwarfs are Red 

 Astrachan, Jersey Sweet, Porter, Baldwin, Dyer, Summer 

 Rose, Benoni, and Bough. 



THE AGE AT WHICH APPLE-TREES BEGIN TO FRUIT. 



To those who wish fruit at the earliest time after setting 

 oat trees, the following results of observations at the New 

 York General Agricultural Experiment Station is of interest 

 and value. Probably most trees obtained from nurseries are 

 two to three years old, and the time of fruiting after this will 

 no doubt vary somewhat with the location, soil, and cultiva- 

 tion given them. The list is by no means complete, and 

 from it are here quoted only those in general cultivation : 



Baldwin 8 years 



Ben Davis 4 " 



Carolina June 4 " 



Cooper's Market . . . . 5 " 



Dominie 5 " 



Oldenburg 2 " 



Early Harvest . . . . 4 " 



Early Strawberry had not fruited at 9 " 

 Esopus Spitzenburgh . . .9 



Fallawater $ " 



Fall Pippin 9 " 



Fameuse . . ... . .5 



Gideon 4 * 



