OP DWARF FRUIT TREE CULTURE. 



PEACH TREE IN POT 



Fig. 36 



PEACH, APRICOT AND NECTARINE. 



Double Serpentine Training 



After Dr. Thornton 



Fig. 38 



The peach, apricot and nectarine may be considered together, 

 as they require similar treatment. These are more tender than the 

 apple and pear, but are still available for suburbanite's use in most 

 parts of the United States, where the climate is not too severe, as 

 they can stand a considerable degree of frost. They may be grown 

 in pots, either plain or perforated on trellises, or against walls. 

 They produce their fruit on the new shoots, therefore too much of 

 the new growth must not be sacrificed, only enough to let in the light, 

 and control the shape of the tree. 



When growing these fruits in pots they will do in 13 to 15-inch 

 pots for the first four or five years, and may be taken up in the 

 spring, repotted in the same pots with fresh soil, and plunged, pot 

 and all, into the border to fruit, or may be transferred from a pot 

 into a rich border and kept there if the temperature keeps above 



