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The Apple for Dwarfs. The apple, worked on the 

 Paradise, makes a beautiful little dwarf bush. We know 

 of nothing more interesting in the fruit garden than a 

 row or a little square of these miniature apple-trees (fig. 

 102), either in blossom or in fruit. Those who have not 

 seen them may imagine an apple-tree, four feet high, and 

 the same in width of branches, covered with blossoms in 

 the spring, or loaded with magnificent golden and crim- 

 son fruit in the autumn. They begin to bear the third 

 year from the bud, and the same variety is always larger 

 and finer on them than on standards. We have had Red 

 Astrachans on Paradise that measured eleven inches in 

 circumference. The French plant a square or compart- 

 ment of these in the kitchen or fruit garden, as they do 

 gooseberries and currants, six feet apart ; they also alter- 

 nate them with pyramidal pear-trees, in rows; and in 

 some of the best mixed kitchen and fruit gardens two 

 dwarf apples are planted between two pyramidal pears, 

 thus giving double the number of apples as of the pears 

 in a border or row. In small gardens, the apple should 

 not be admitted under any other form, and even to a 

 limited extent in that ; for it is the great fruit of the 

 orchard, and in nearly all parts of this country extensive- 

 ly grown, and can be purchased at very moderate rates. 



Dwarf Apple trained in Horizontal Cordon. In Eu- 



Fig. 103. APPLE CORDON (Single). 



ropean gardens, the dwarf apple is frequently trained 

 on what are called " horizontal cordons " along: the walk 



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borders, and are very pretty objects. 



The cordon, as the drawing (fig. 103) shows, consists 



