Dwarf Peachy Plum, and Cherry Trees. 



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Blush. Upon the whole, I presume this variety has varied in different 

 locaHties, rather than that there has been a spurious variety dissemin- 

 ated. 



BOHANNAN. 



DWARF PEACH, PLUM, AND CHERRY TREES. 



The peach tree is so easily grown in most parts of the country as a 

 standard on its own roots that few attempts to dwarf it have been made. 

 Yet for small gardens the dwarf form possesses sufficient advantages to 

 compensate for the greater trouble of growing it. For this purpose it 

 is budded on plum stocks of different kinds. In England, where plum 

 stocks are almost exclusively used, the kinds adopted are the Muscle, so 

 called from the shape of the fruit, the White Pear and the Brussels, 

 different varieties requiring different stocks. The second of these should 

 only be used when very small dwarfs are wanted, as the bud is apt to 

 grow much larger than the stock. W"e think that the exemption from the 

 borer would alone repay the extra trouble and expense of plum stocks. 



The pruning which we should advise would differ from that commonly 

 pursued, mainly in substituting summer pinching of the ends of the 

 shoots for the spring " shortening in " commonly practised. By pinch- 

 ing off" the end of each shoot carefully the wood and buds will be better 



