SMALL FRUITS 



small I cannot have as many apples as I would if I 

 could grow 40 feet high, so I will make my fruit 

 very large and handsome." And the little chap 

 goes right to work making fruit, and in a couple of 

 years you will be gathering apples. 



Dwarf pears are produced by grafting a scion 

 from any good pear tree on to the root of a quince 

 tree ; you know quince trees never grow very large. 



You need not plant these in your vegetable gar- 

 den if you do not want to, as they can be used in- 

 stead of flowering shrubs. Fruit blossoms are as 

 handsome as any blossoms, and the little trees are 

 very ornamental when the fruit ripens. 



When you plant dwarf trees do it with the utmost 

 care because they will live half a century. Make a 

 large hole at least three feet across and two feet 

 deep, put humus of some kind in the bottom of the 

 hole and tramp it down hard ; next put a couple of 

 inches of soil over the humus, then mix wood ashes 

 with the remainder of the soil. Now unpack the 

 tree and see that there are no broken roots. If you 

 find any broken, cut them off clean, because the 

 plant will try to heal a broken root, but will send 

 out fine feeder roots if it is cut off clean. 



Put the tree in the center of the hole and spread 

 the roots out just as they go naturally, hold the 



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