114 DWARF FRUIT TREES 



would have been applied to standards. Later I saw 

 the bad results of this treatment, for several of the trees 

 blew over in high winds. From subsequent experience 

 I feel sure that if they had been headed low at first, 

 if they had been kept closely headed back and other- 

 wise handled like real dwarfs, they would have lived 

 to a greater age and would have made everybody hap- 

 pier. 



At this time also I began, on a somewhat compre- 

 hensive plan, the propagation of plums on all sorts 

 of stocks, including Americana, Wayland seedlings, 

 Miner root cuttings and sand cherry, all more or 

 less efficient dwarfing stocks. By this time I was into 

 it head over ears, as far as the plums were concerned. 



This having been the largest chapter in my per- 

 sonal pomological experience, I suppose it ought to 

 form the largest portion of this chapter in the book; 

 but my plum work and my experiments in propagation 

 have been so often and so fully reported elsewhere 

 that it would be a vain repetition to go over them 

 again now. They are all written down in the proper 

 places where they may be consulted by the enthusiastic 

 or ill-advised student. 



And then I came to Massachusetts ; and here the 

 first project, almost, to which my hand was turned 

 was the installation of a garden of dwarf fruit trees. 

 From the following memorandum of the trees growing 

 in this garden any reader may surmise the enjoyment 

 I have found in it. There is one row of dwarf plum 

 trees set six feet apart and trained, rather unsatisfac- 

 torily, into bush form. The trees, were many of them too 

 large when they came from France, and, though I cut 



