6 DWARF FRUIT TREES 



upon a solemn American editor remarked that if the 

 whole royal family should live upon nothing but 

 peaches it would still be cheaper than carrying on the 

 Japanese war. 



Now if there is anywhere within reach a market 

 for apples or peaches at $3 a dozen specimens and 

 there unquestionably is then it will pay to grow 

 fancy fruits with special care to meet this demand. 

 This kind of fruit can be grown better upon dwarf 

 trees than upon standards in many cases, if not in 

 most. At least such is the conviction of the present 

 writer. Moreover this has been the experience in the 

 old country. 



With such facts in view there seems to be a 

 possible future for dwarf fruit trees, even for com- 

 mercial purposes. Their present utility in amateur 

 gardens and on wealthy private estates can not be 

 questioned. These various amateur and commercial 

 adaptations of dwarf trees will have to be more care- 

 fully analyzed and discussed in a future chapter, and 

 the subject may therefore be dropped for the present. 



