XI 

 BUSH FRUITS 



THE bush fruits, so far as I know, are never culti- 

 vated as dwarfs. To speak more exactly I should 

 say that no dwarf stock is ever used to reduce the 

 size to which the plants grow. On the other hand, bush 

 fruits are often systematically pruned back in order 

 to restrict their size, and are sometimes trained in 

 elaborate forms as dwarf fruit trees are. To this 

 extent they are managed in the same way and might 

 properly be treated in the same general category. 

 What is more to our purpose, they are almost always 

 included in the plan of any private fruit garden on 

 a restricted area, such as we have had chiefly in view 

 in this discussion of dwarf fruit trees. These reasons 

 make it appropriate, if not indeed essential, that 

 something should be said regarding, these fruits, here. 



All bush fruits can be grown in -such forms as cor- 

 dons, espaliers, etc. Anything of this s|xrt which the 

 gardener wishes can become a part of his^ garden of 

 little trees. Gooseberries and currants offer* e the most 

 entertainment and remuneration when subjected to 

 special priming and training, and indeed they should 

 not be omitted from any garden scheme of this kind. 

 Raspberries-axe- less amenable. to this kind of educa- 

 tion and should be introduced with some care. Black- 

 berries are necessarily difficult to handle and no 

 very complicated schemes of pruning and training 



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