FRUIT TREES IN POTS IO/ 



Usually potted trees are grown under glass. They 

 are kept in a cool greenhouse, that is one with little 

 heat. Sometimes they are without artificial heat. 

 In fact this is probably the best way. The houses 

 which are purposely constructed for fruit trees may 

 have a single line of pipe if this is convenient, so that 

 the chill may be taken off the air in severe cold 

 weather. To reach anything like real success, houses 

 must be devoted exclusively to fruit trees. Occa- 

 sionally trees may be grown with other plants, as in 

 cold graperies, but the results are not the best and 

 often come very close to failure. 



In building houses for fruit trees exclusively, the 

 even span construction is nearly always used. Houses 

 eighteen or twenty feet wide, and five feet high at 

 the eaves, will answer the purpose very well. The 

 leading greenhouse designers are prepared to furnish 

 plans for such houses and it is usually best to follow 

 the advice of their -experts. 



All kinds of fruit trees can be grown in pots. This 

 includes apples, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines, and 

 cherries. Those which give the best returns are 

 plums and nectarines. Apples in pots are very inter- 

 esting and furnish a superior quality of fruit when 

 grown under glass. Apples, plums and nectarines 

 take a finer finish and a higher flavor when grown 

 in this way than when grown in any other. 



All fruit trees to be grown in pots should be prop- 

 agated on the dwarfest of dwarfing stocks. This 

 means practically that apples should be on Paradise, 

 pears on quince, peaches and nectarines on sand cherry, 



