FRUITS FOR SMALL GARDEN 289 



Fruit trees benefit by cultivation and atten- 

 tion quite as positively as do vegetables or 

 flowers, even though they will grow after a fash- 

 ion, and bear fruit, without it. With the 

 dwarfed trees it is essential, since the severe 

 pruning to which these are subjected during 

 their early years — and annually as well, since 

 pruning alone will keep them down to the proper 

 buds and branches to insure a good yield of 

 fruit — depletes their vitality, and only studied 

 feeding will overcome this. WTiere it is possible 

 to place fruit trees along the boundary of the 

 vegetable garden, preferably on the north side 

 in order that they shall not deprive the vege- 

 tables of full sun, this is an excellent place for 

 them; for it makes very little extra tillage neces- 

 sary, since they benefit by all that is done for 

 the vegetables, as well as by the fertilizer ap- 

 plied to the garden space. 



The bush fruits lend themselves to wall or 

 fence training in a way that is almost never 

 taken advantage of, unfortunately. By allow- 

 ing space for them flat against the garden wall 

 or a boundary fence, a great number may be 

 accommodated without interfering in the least 

 with anything else. Blackberries and rasp- 

 berries are naturally in need of support, and 

 their long canes are never better supported than 



