212 ARISTOCRATS OF THE GARDEN 



good loamy soil and many of them begin to flower 

 and produce fruit when only a few years old. They 

 will thrive wherever the common Apple will grow 

 if attention be paid to keeping them free from the 

 scale insects which are destructive to all plants 

 of the Apple tribe. This may be accomplished 

 readily by spraying with the same antidotes as recom- 

 mended in the case of the Japanese Cherries. 



