DWARF FRUIT TREES 



experience and observation, this is not the case when 

 the Americana is used as a stock for Americana 

 varieties. It does not dwarf the trees seriously and 



the union is splendid. It 

 is by all odds the best 

 stock we have for plums, 

 and since we do not 

 grow anything but Amer- 

 icana varieties, it works 

 first rate. It does* tend 

 to sprout some, though 

 there is little trouble in 

 this regard after the 

 trees come into bearing." 



The sand cherry seems 

 to be the dwarfing stock 

 par excellence for the 

 plum. This sand cherry 

 is a heterogeneous spe- 

 cies, or as some botanists 

 think, is three species, 

 ranging throughout the 

 Northern States from 

 Maine to Colorado. The 

 narrow leaf upright form 

 growing about five feet 



tall, known as Prunus pumila, is found along the 

 Atlantic coast. The broad leafed dwarfer form known 

 as Prunus pumila besseyi or P. besseyi, is found in 

 the Western States. Another rarer form of more ir- 



FIG. 8 

 THE WESTERN SAND CHERRY 



Prunus pumila besseyi 



