Il8 DWARF FRUIT TREES 



scopic effect on my fruit garden, I have some medlar 

 trees, Hollandische Monstrose, which I bought of 

 Louis Spath, Baumschulenweg, Berlin. 



A wire trellis, built much like a grape trellis, only 

 higher, carries the row of upright cordon apples. 

 Some of these bore fruit the first year they were 

 planted, and there has been a fair sprinkling of fruit 

 every year since then. This has been one of the most 

 satisfactory lots in the make-up. 



There are two rows containing forty-six bush-form 

 apples on paradise roots set six feet apart. Some of 

 these have borne every year since planting out, many 

 cf them showing a good crop this year. Again Bis- 

 marck is the most fruitful, but the least pleasing to 

 eat. Alexander has made a good record, and ttw 

 year Calville d'Automne shows a very pretty crop. It 

 is customary with visitors, especially those already in- 

 terested in fruit-growing and those of a practical turn 

 of mind, to depart with the judgment that "all those 

 other schemes are curious and interesting, but the 

 bush form apple trees look the most like business." 

 I think so too. In fact my experience with dwarf ap- 

 ples might be summarized by saying, "bush trees for 

 business, cordons for fun." 



One row of peach trees on St. Julien plum roots set 

 fruit buds in abundance the first year, but they were 

 killed by the freeze of the following winter. The sec- 

 ond year the experience was the same, except that the 

 tops froze with the fruit buds. New tops were grown 

 at once, however, and the following year nearly every 

 tree bore a small crop of fruit. Dwarf peach trees 

 are worth while. 



