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hand the "small fruits" including the gooseberry, the 

 blackberry, the raspberry, the currant and the strawberry, 

 are low bushes or herbaceous perennials, and are 

 certainly not fruit TREES in the accepted sense. So also 

 the melon, the water-melon, the tomato, the pumpkin etc. 

 are herbaceous annual plants grown for their fruits but 

 of course are not trees. Certain fruits, such as the shad- 

 dock, and certain apples and pears are placed on the 

 table only for ornament, but they are grown for their 

 fruits, and being nearly allied to eatable fruits are there- 

 fore classed as fruit trees. 



Another difficulty lies in the distinction made by the 

 law which regulates the planting of trees on adjoining 

 property. It is not possible to say exactly what is a tree 

 of "lofty trunk". A carob tree very commonly has a 

 very short trunk which branches close to the ground, but 

 if the distinction made by the law is insisted upon, it is 

 hardly possible not to include the carob with trees of 

 lofty trunk. On the other hand, an almond tree, a loquat 

 tree or even an orange tree may have a trunk exceeding 

 4 metres in height, but these cannot be classed as lofty 

 trees in the obvious sense of the law. Again, the ivy 

 does not answer to the description of a tree of lofty 

 trunk, but the roots of a full grown ivy may cause much 

 more damage to an adjoining tenement than either a 

 carob tree or a fig tree, and it is chiefly or solely on 

 account of the possible injury which may be caused by 

 the roots that it was thought necessary to regulate by 

 law the planting of trees in adjoining lands. 



From the point of view of the cultivator all fruit 

 trtes, and indeed all trees and shrubs, may be 

 grouped into two main classes, viz : EVERGREEN and 

 DECIDUOUS, the fundamental requirements of cultiva- 

 tion being practically the same for all trees in each 

 class. Thus evergreen trees such as the orange and 

 lemon, the olive, the loquat, the carob, the avocado 



