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that at which they have previously stood, or a little deeper, 

 particularly if set out in the fall. 



For special objects, or upon small lots, dwarfed fruit-trees 

 may be found desirable, but they are not to be relied on as per- 

 manent, nor even of long continuance, without special care and 

 high culture, and are not, therefore, recommended, except for 

 intermediate planting, or for fancy, or in soils or climates un- 

 favorable to the production of fruit upon more vigorous stocks. 



If dwarfed trees are worked low, near the collar of the stock, 

 and in the final transplanting are set pretty deep, so that the 

 joint is covered five or six inches, roots will in due time be 

 thrown out from the graft, and these, being stronger and more 

 natural than the roots of the dwarfing stock, which may even 

 perish after the new roots are formed, the tree will thence ac- 

 quire additional strength, approximating in effect to a tree 

 raised from a cutting, and having a character intermediate be- 

 tween an ordinary dwarfed tree and one grafted upon a seed- 

 ling stock. It will be longer lived than the former, but not 

 equal to the latter in the vigor of its roots, yet by careful sum- 

 mer pruning, as directed page 254, it may, for certain kinds or 

 in particular localities, be preferred, and become a substitute 

 for both, but, like the ordinary dwarfed tree, will always de- 

 mand extra care. 



SHORTENING THE ROOTS AND TOP. 

 Fig. 119. 



a. Young tree pruned ready 

 for setting out. 



&. Young tree pruned, and 

 set out upon a wet-soil surface, 

 the roots being covered by bill- 

 ing up, staked, and mulched. 



