IO DWARF FRUIT TREES 



or six years in any one place. In that length of time 

 ordinary trees would not begin to yield any fruit. 

 But with dwarf trees there is excellent probability 

 of seeing something ripen. Then again early bearing 

 is a great advantage when one is testing new or old 

 varieties. It is a great advantage when a commercial 

 orchard is designed and when dwarf trees are used 

 for fillers as explained below. , 



2. Small size. The very smallness of the dwarf 

 trees has many advantages in it. The trees are easier 

 to reach and to care for. They are easier to prune and 

 to spray. This facility in spraying is what has chiefly 

 recommended smaller fruit trees to commercial fruit 

 growers in recent years. Particularly in those places 

 where the San Jose scale is a perennial problem a 

 very large tree becomes an impossibility, and the 

 smaller the trees can be the better it suits. 



The small size of dwarf trees permits the planting 

 of larger numbers on a given area. This is specially 

 worth while to the amateur who has a small gar- 

 den where only three or four standard trees could 

 grow, but where he can comfortably handle forty or 

 fifty dwarfs. Yet it is also worth the consideration 

 of the commercial fruit grower who is trying to earn 

 a profit on expensive land. If he can increase the 

 number of bearing trees on each acre, especially 

 during the early years of establishing his orchard, it 

 almost certainly means increased income. 



3. High quality. It is not perfectly certain that 

 every kind of fruit can be produced in higher quality 

 on dwarf trees than on standards, but such is the gen- 

 eral rule. This is notably true of certain pears, as 



