The Suburbanite's Handbook 



OF 



Dwarf Fruit Tree Culture and Management 



Bush Pear Tree 



Beurre Capaiumont Photo 



Fig. i. 



Apple Tree 8 branches 



Trained to goblet form 



Fig. 2 



It has been found that by treating fruit trees in a particular 

 manner they may be so dwarfed in growth that forty and 

 more apple trees may be grown in the space ordinarily required for 

 a single standard apple tree, at the same time increasing their pro- 

 lificacy and vastly improving the quality and beauty of the fruit. 

 Other fruits, as apricots, nectarines, pears, plums, etc., are subject 

 to the same change. This dwarfing is no new discovery, but has been 

 practiced successfully in Europe for centuries, and in Japan for a 

 millenium, and has been reduced to a science, that is perfectly simple, 



