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This garden has also a row of cherry trees, includ- 

 ing Morello, Richmond and Montmorency ; but these 

 trees were set the second year of the garden making 

 and have borne only a small crop of sample cherries. 



The last planting in this garden consists of one row 

 of nectarines, twenty-two trees. 



This little garden, containing considerably less than 

 a quarter of an acre of land, has now growing upon 

 it 548 fruit trees of the kinds named. And I am not 

 yet done planting. There are various other things that 

 I want to put in, quinces, apricots, and perhaps rasp- 

 berries, dewberries, and other bush fruits. In fact, 

 I should like to make it a "Paradise" like good old 

 Gerarde's or Dodoens', in which all the fruits "good 

 for food or physic" might be brought together and 

 represented in a little space. 



It would be quite wrong to close this experience 

 meeting without giving the observations and quoting 

 the opinions of some other and better men. Patrick 

 Barry, in his delightful "Fruit Garden," recorded his 

 belief that dwarf fruit trees were well worth while. 

 "The apple," said he, "worked on the Paradise, makes 

 a beautiful little dwarf bush. We know of nothing 

 more interesting in the fruit garden than a row or 

 little square of these miniature fruit trees. They begin 

 to bear the third year from the bud, and the same va- 

 riety is always larger and finer on them than on stand- 

 ards." Speaking of pears, he said: "On the quince 

 stock the trees bear much earlier, are more prolific, 

 more manageable, and consequently preferable for 

 small gardens." 



The late Mr. E. G. Lodeman, who wrote the most 



