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PERMANENT PLANTATIONS 



the cherry, to a certain extent, as the quince has on the 

 pear. After the second or third year's growth, it subdues 

 their vigor, and induces fruitfulness. We have a collec- 

 tion of upwards of thirty varieties, of four to five years 

 old, that are now fine pyramids, from five to eight feet 

 high, and they have all borne since the third year, and we 

 find them quite as easily managed as the pear. The 

 Dukes and Morellos should be chosen, where very small 

 trees are desir- 

 able, as they can 

 be grown in 

 bushes like the 

 apple oh the pa- 

 radise stock, at 

 five feet apart. 



Fig. 102 is 

 the portrait of a 

 dwarf Florence 

 cherry tree, 

 given by Mr. 

 Rivers, in his 

 Miniature Fruit 

 Garden, only 

 two years old, 

 bearing fruit. 

 Our dwarfs fre- 

 quently bear the 

 third year. 



The Plum as a Pyramid. The plum has rarely been 

 cultivated as a pyramid, but recent experiments prove 

 that it is quite susceptible of that form under proper 

 management. It should be worked on a stock calculated 

 to subdue its natural vigor. The native or Canada plum 

 answers a good purpose, the mirobalalan or cherry plum, 



FIG. 102. 

 Dwarf cherry, two years from bud, bearing. 



