DWARF PEARS 273 



Since the Yeomanses have been so successful 

 with dwarf pears, it will be profitable to study 

 their description of the method of pruning 1 , and 



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1 '.';. Flat-topped training of dwarf pears. New York. 



These trees were forty-five years old when the 



picture was taken. 



especially so, also, since this account seems to be 

 the clearest exposition of dwarf pear pruning 

 for commercial orchards which is accessible to 

 the American student:* 



" Experience has convinced me that, with good trees of 

 well chosen varieties, on any good land, which is never too 

 w-t, :ui(l with the culture a good farmer gives his other 

 n>ps, and the important nay, more, the indispensable 

 requisite to success, thorough pruning, no one need fail 



*This sketch is a copyrighted article published in the nursery circulars 

 of T. G. Yeomans & Sons, at the time when the firm was in the nur- 

 sery business. Reprinted by permission. 



