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the home gardens, where they thrived for a time, but 

 owing to the care they required and their failure to give 

 the results promised, interest soon died out and in ten or 

 fifteen years hardly a dwarf apple tree 

 could be found. Within the past three 

 or four years the interest in dwarf 

 apple trees has been revived but that 

 these will prove of any permanent value 

 will require at least a decade to decide. 



If in the small yards of our city and 



, FIG. 56 A Con- 

 suburban homes dwart trees Should venient and Cheap 

 , . . Ladder for Work- 



contmue to grow tor a tew years and ing on LOW Trees, 

 produce a fair amount of fruit, they will be of much 

 value; but we can hardly expect them to compete 

 with standard trees .for the production of fruit for com- 

 mercial purposes. 



