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THE MINIATURE FRTJIT GARDEN. 



success, and very cliarming fmitful trees they make. 

 They should not bo allowed to grow above pcvcn feet 

 in height, to which they will reach in the course of 

 four or five years. I annex a figure of one of these 

 trees, three years old, and full of fruit. (Fig. 16,) 



PYRAMIDAL APPLES ON THE CKAB BTOOK:. 



In soils light and poor, the apple on the Paradise 

 stock is, vinless carefully manured on the surface, apt 

 to Ijcfoiiie stunted and unhealthy. In 

 such soils, and also in tlii'se of a very 

 tenacious nature, pyramids on the crab 

 stock may be planted with L'reat ad- 

 vantage. They are al^o well adapted 

 tor lar<j;e ;j;urdens where large quanti- 

 ties of fruit are required, as the trees 

 ni;iy be made to form handsome pyra- 

 mids, from twelve to fifteen feet in 

 height. 



There is one thing most essential to 

 their full success as p^Taniids — they 

 must either be lifted or taken up bien- 

 nially early in Xovember, and replanted 

 in tlie manner recommended for busli 

 ])car trees, i.ir root-pruned biennially, 

 ojierating upon the trees alternately, as 

 mentioned in note to y. VI ; or the fol- 

 owing system may be adopted : neither 

 remove nor rootpriiiie any tree tiiat continues to i:Tow 

 \\\\\\ moderation, does not canker, and beai-s well; 

 bill any tree that makes shoots fri>m eighteen inches 

 to tlu'ee feet in length, remove once in two, three, or 

 four yeai'8, liil its vigorous lialiit is reduced. 



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