16 DWARF FRUIT TREES 



ers and creepers are in vogue for this service ; but a 

 certain number of such unattractive walls and fences 

 could be treated quite as acceptably, from the esthetic 

 point of view, with trained fruit trees, and the result 

 would be more satisfactory in some other ways. Ap- 

 ples or pears trained as cordons or espaliers, or peaches, 

 nectarines, or cherries in fan forms, will thrive on 

 almost any brick or wooden wall, except those with 

 a northern front. It is necessary only to supply a 

 proper soil, to plant sound trees of proper sorts, 

 and to give them the prescribed care. The result is 

 not only a thing of beauty but one of practical utility 

 as well. 



There are many places where the owner of a city 

 or suburban lot can secure the fun and the substantial 

 benefits belonging to the fruit grower on land that 

 would be otherwise wasted, if he will only build a 

 woven wire fence on the property line between him 

 and his not-too-agreeable neighbor, using this fence 

 as a support for a row of cordon plums, pears or apples. 

 If he has time and inclination to do a little more work 

 with the trees he can better plant U-form peaches, 

 nectarines or apricots, or he can grow plums in U-form, 

 or he can have fan-form cherry trees, or apples or 

 pears in Verrier-palmettes. One of the most interest- 

 ing and productive lots in the author's dwarf fruit 

 garden is a row of plum trees on such a woven wire 

 trellis. The trees in this row stand two feet apart, 

 and form a perfect screen. (Fig. 6.) The majority of 

 the trees which were necessarily taken for planting 

 this row were not propagated on suitable stocks, and 

 many varieties were introduced for experimental pur- 



