OF DWARF FRUIT TREE CULTURE. 75 



eternal sleep at 50 years of age. And now I have personal knowledge 

 of the various stages and advances of fruit culture from the planting 

 of an apple or pear bud in the corner of a fence to the advanced 

 intensive orchard culture with both standard and ''fillers." When 

 the comparison between the standard and the dwarf fruit trees in 

 actual and direct competition comes up, I give my decision in favor of 

 the dwarf trees every time for those who will make them a hobby. 



Among the simple questions that are hard to answer I am here 

 reminded of one in connection with fruit trees that is very curious. 

 Twenty-five years ago the apple tree tent caterpillar used to lay 

 their eggs in a circle around the terminal twigs and after the leaves 

 fell they were clearly visible to the naked eye and easily removed, 

 and in some localities the orchardist was in the habit of removing 

 them by bucketsfull and burning them, and not one lot in 10,000 

 would be placed otherwise than in a circle as above. In the course 

 of years, however, as the fight became more strenuous between the 

 orchardist and the moth, Mrs. Moth learned the trick of plastering 

 the eggs in a flat layer on the upper side of the branch, where they 

 were invisible to the orchardist from the ground. Any experienced 

 and observant orchardist will corroborate this statement. Simple 

 question : How did Mrs. Moth learn this trick? I do not know, unless 

 Mrs. Moth in some way became acquainted with Whitcomb Riley's 

 celebrated refrain, 



THE GOBLIN 



WILL GIT YE 



IF YE DON'T 



WATCH OUT! 



This discussion on the adaptability of dwarf fruit trees to the 

 uses of the commercial orchardist, either in connection with standard 

 trees as fillers or direct competition with them under intensive 

 culture may be epitomized with advantage as follows : 



Fruit trees have from the beginning been subject to certain 

 laws and conditions and the ignorance of such laws and conditions 

 throughout the ages in no way justifies the denial of their existence. 

 Just as in the case of electricity, the inherent power of electricity 

 existed from the beginning, though Morse and Marconi did not come 

 to exploit them till the Nineteenth Century nevertheless they 

 always existed. 



Many discoveries have been made regarding dwarf fruit trees 

 that are now established facts fully proven and undisputable. Many 



