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Vice-President Drew : We will next take up a subject 

 left over from this morning's program, a paper on the 

 "Results of a Dwarf Apple Orchard," by Prof. A. G. Gulley 

 of our State Agricultural College. (Applause.) 



Prof. A. G. Gulley: Yiv. Chairman, I was asked to say 

 a few words on this dwarf apple question because I am in- 

 dulging- in growing them a little at the college. Now I might 

 first explain that my interest in this question of dwarf apples 

 did not begin with the few that we have at the college, but is 

 a matter of years of attention and study. 



Results of a Dwarf Apple Orchard. 



By Prof. A. G. Gulley, Storrs. 



My present experience with dw^arf apples is not the first. 

 When a boy I made a trip to Rochester, New York, and with 

 friends visited the then, and still noted ornamental grounds 

 of Elwanger and Barr}-, and saw^ a block of apple trees, each 

 tree not higher than my head, and loaded with apples. Their 

 striking appearance remains almost as vivid in my mind as 

 does that of the block I have, at present, in charge. 



Some twelve or fifteen years later for several seasons I 

 was interested in the collections of a large society exhibit of 

 fruit. While at that work, it occurred to me that those little 

 trees could be made to produce fine specimens for exhibition. 

 I planted at that same time fifteen or twenty varieties and 

 brought them to bearing age. In handling them I gained some 

 experience that has been valuable since. 



When the block at the Connecticut college was started, 

 it was for the purpose of growing good specimens, but more 

 to have a tested tree where scions could be obtained of the 

 newer as well as rare varieties. This is the reason why those 

 now beginning to bear do not embrace any of the more 

 common kinds. The latter have all been added since, \^'e 

 now have about one hundred and tw^entv-five varietie>^ tested. 



