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Apples: Summer Rose, End of July. L. Str., Scarlet Pearmain, Au- 

 tumn. L. Str., Landsberg, Autumn. L. Str., Dantziger, Autumn. L., King 

 of Pippins, \A' inter. L. Str., Orleans, Winter. Str. (For the agriculturalist 

 where the soil is better). Yellow Bell flower, Winter. L. Str., Alant, L., 

 Deutscher Gold Pepping*, Winter. L. (must be left on the tree until the 

 middle or end of October), Kassler, keeps from winter until summer. L. 

 Str., Purpurroter Cousinet*, winter till summer. 



Pears for dry soils : Hannoversche Jakobsbirne*, end of July. L. Str., 

 Clapp Favorite. August. L., Archduke, August. L., Yat, beginning of Sep- 

 tember. L. Str., Kuhfuss*. beginning of September. L. Str., Treyve, Sep- 

 tember. Autumn Melting (Downing), end of September. L. Str., Bosc, end 

 of October. L., Marie Louise, beginning of November. L. Str., Mecheln, 

 December. Madam Korte*, January. Kemper, cooking pear for the whole 

 winter. L. Str. 



Cherris, as is well-known, prefer a well drained, dry soil; on the other 

 hand, plums, on the average, flourish best in a moist, heavy soil and also 

 they bear sweeter fruit. It is desirable to know a number of varieties re- 

 quiring less water. Biondeck, beginning of August; early Apricot, middle 

 of August; Lawson, end of August; Bunter Perdrigon, end of August; 

 Berlepsch, beginning of September; Altham, beginning of September; Jerus- 

 alem, beginning of Septembr ; Anna Spath, middle of September; German 

 prune, end of September. As a street tree, the plum is not very desirable 

 because of its habit of growth. 



As varieties which grow well on dry, light soils in the climate along 

 the coast, should be mentioned^: i. Apples: Landsberg, Purpurroter Cousi- 

 net*, Oldenburg, Geflammter Kardinal*, Bauman ; the Prinz (Downing) 

 is especially suitable for the provinces along the Baltic and the North Sea. 

 2. P^ari-:* Yat Bosc, Red Bergamot, Summer Doyenne. 3. Plums: House 

 Plum. 4. Cherries: The common sour cherry. 



Stunting. 



Since almost everywhere in nature similar effects are obtained by 

 different means, a limited soil space may be only one cause of dwarf growth ; 

 another is the lack of available nutriment due to either a scanty supplying of 

 raw soil solution to the roots or to the decrease of organic reserve nutriment. 

 This latter case we will have to consider again later in the "Pincement Grin," 

 i. e., in the pruning" of leaves to prevent the sprouting of the buds found in 

 their axils and in the production of dwarf seedlings by cutting off the 

 cotyledons which are rich in nutrition. 



In nanism, however, caused by soil physically unfit because of too great 

 porosity, water scarcity alone must be considered. Given a soil rich in mineral 

 or organic food substances, the size of the plant depends upon the distension 



* Name of variety given in the German original, not reported in the United 

 States of America. 



1 From a written communication of Mr. Klitzing- (owner of a nursery) in 

 Ludwigslust. 



