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because it has proved the most advantageous and success* 

 ful. The apple for pyramids (fig. 101) should be on the 

 Doucin stock. Certain varieties, such as the Hawthorn- 

 den^ Kesicick Codlin, Summer Hose, Duchess of Olden- 

 burg, and many other moderate growers and early bearers, 

 will make good pyramids on free stocks, but they will 

 require more summer pruning and carciful management to 

 keep their vigor under check than they would ©n the 

 Doucin. But apples for the fruit garden, even on the 



Fig. 103. — DWARF BUSH APPLE-TREE. 



iDoucin, should be such as naturally make small trees, and 

 are inclined to early bearing. In these res[)ects, it is very 

 well knuwn there is a wide difference between varieties. 

 Those mentioned above, and others similar in character, 

 frequently bear, on free stocks in the nursery rows, at the 

 age of three or four years from the bud, whilst others do 

 not bear until eight or ten years old. This is a point that 

 should always be regarded in selecting garden trees ; for 

 it is the natural and proper desire of every one who 

 plants a tree in the garden to obtain fruit from it as early 

 as possible. 



