OP DWARF FRUIT TREE CULTURE. 13 



THE DWARF TREE GARDEN PROM THE SUBURBANITE'S 



POINT OF VIEW. 



The suburbanite is generally possessed of a limited piece of 

 ground, and the use of large standard fruit trees is out of the 

 question. He requires to combine the ornamental with the useful 

 as far as possible. His ground has the great advantage of being 

 well sheltered from harsh winds (a very important consideration in 

 fruit culture). As a rule he does not look for profit from selling 

 his fruit. He looks, however, for the enjoyment of beautifying his 

 home and making it attractive to passersby, and if at the same time 

 he can produce fruit of the highest quality for himself, family and 

 friends, he will feel himself amply repaid for the work. While he 

 is thus enjoying the pleasures of rural life he is at the same time 

 making a valuable investment by increasing the money value of his 

 property should he at any time desire to sell. Also, if he has chil- 

 dren,, by giving each of them one or more of these little trees FOR 

 THEIR VERY OWN, and teaching them how to care for them, he 

 may develop a taste for nature studies that will go far to wean them 

 from the streets, hoodlums and other bad in fluences to which sub- 

 urbanite boys and girls are exposed. While the commercial orchard- 

 ist requires as few varieties as possible, but in sufficient quantities 

 to furnish carload lots of each fruit, the suburbanite desires as many 

 varieties as possible, though only one or two trees of each kind, so as 

 to secure fresh and varied fruit of his own growing every month 

 in the year. The dwarf fruit tree garden therefore fully meets his 

 wants. He can have a supply of little trees of dessert pears ripening 

 their fruit from July and every succeeding month till the following 

 April; he can also have a few varieties specially adapted for stew- 

 ing or baking, and can have a few specially suited for exhibition 

 purposes, for those dwarf trees will produce the largest and hand- 

 somest fruit to be found anywhere. In apples, too, he can have a 

 varietv of desert apples, ripening every month in the year, from 

 July to the following June. He can also have a select lot of kitchen 

 aDDles. lasting from August to the following May, which will add 

 greatly to his enjoyment. In regions that might seem too severe for 

 these fruits, they may be compelled to bear, with a little extra, 

 trouble, by growing in pots or boxes, and the luxury of growing 

 them will fully repay any little extra trouble, which, in reality, is 

 no trouble at all, but the most enjoyable kind of pleasure. 



