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been worth the growing, and their fifteen or twenty years cannot be 

 considered a short crop. 



It is, perhaps, as a purely supplementary crop that they can be 

 most profitably planted, say, between the rows and, in the rows, 

 between the more permanent orchard trees. They must, of course, 

 be planted when the orchard is made so as to do their bit while the 

 permanent trees are in the making and before they grow too large. 

 In this way they ensure a regular return from ground that would 

 otherwise be barren of results where ordinary bush fruit was not 

 grown. We have so grown them for years with perfectly satisfactory 

 results, and these we hope to improve upon by and by. When it 

 has been objected to us that the cost of the trees was prohibitive, 

 we point to the fact that we raise our own trees and they directly 

 cost but little, and that little we scarcely feel. It is a fact that some 

 of the finest exhibition fruit we have ever gathered came from these 

 dwarf trees. 



Dwarfs appeal to others perhaps more strongly than to commercial 

 growers, and the amateur with a keen perception of things finds in 

 these dwarf trees a type which he can make quite a hobby of. But 

 the qualities which recommend them to such are the very qualities 

 which should commend them to the purely commercial man. They 

 are get-at-able ; are always under close observation ; their condition, 

 their needs, the attacks of pests, are all immediately noticeable and 

 can be dealt with promptly and easily, while trees of a larger and 

 free-growing type are more difficult to deal with and more out of 

 the line of sight. 



There can be no question as to the quality of fruit produced by 

 them, and we may instance the following, as varieties we have grown, 

 in every respect of the highest quality and good enough to serve us 

 in illustrating lectures, viz. Apples : Lane's Prince Albert ; King 

 of the Pippins ; Peasgood's Nonsuch ; Newton Wonder ; James 

 Grieve ; Blenheim Orange ; Golden Spire ; Wellington ; Wor- 

 cester Pearmain ; and Cox's Orange. Pears : Doyenne du Cornice ; 

 Durondeau ; Louise Bonne of Jersey ; Dr. Jules Guillot ; Williams' 

 Bon-Chretien ; and various others. 



Practically the trees prune themselves and need but a modicum 

 of help. Their growth is naturally meagre if on correct stocks, and 

 their heavy cropping qualities act as a strong curb even on this, so 



