12 DWARF FRUIT TREES 



Buerre Giffard and Doyenne du Cornice, and it is 

 generally the case with all apples that can be success- 

 fully grown on Paradise roots. One can secure size, 

 color, flavor and finish on an Alexander or a Ribston 

 Pippin, for example, which can never be secured on 

 a standard tree. One who has not seen this thing 

 done will hardly understand it; those who have will 

 not need more argument. Such plums as we have 

 fruited on dwarf trees have shown similar improvement 

 in quality, being always distinctly superior to the 

 same varieties grown on standard trees. The signifi- 

 cance of these facts will appear at once to any one 

 familiar with the course of the fruit markets in Amer- 

 ica. There are greater rewards awaiting the fruit 

 grower who can produce fruit of superior quality than 

 the one who succeeds merely in increasing the quan- 

 tity of his output. 



SPECIAL USES FOR DWARF TREES 



These various items of advantage recommend dwarf 

 fruit trees for several specific purposes, some of which 

 are worth pointing out in detail. 



I. For suburban places. A large and increasing 

 percentage of our population now lives the suburban 

 life in that zone where city and country meet. They 

 have small tracts of land, which, however, they too 

 often lease instead of owning. On these they do 

 more or less gardening, usually more, in proportion 

 to the size of their holdings. For them dwarf fruit 

 trees are a precious boon. It is possible to plant three 

 hundred to five hundred dwarf fruit trees on a quarter 

 of an acre, where less than a dozen standard trees 



