SMALL FRUITS AND SMALL GARDENS 



What is set down in these pages as to exposures, soils, fertilization, 

 and the other details of fruit-growing is the truth, but it is also the 

 truth that desirable fruit prosperity may occur under conditions 

 which only approximate to the ideal. The man or woman with but 

 a small area of land at his command is therefore urged to use itj 

 going as far as he can toward providing the conditions here set forth. 



Always the soil can be deeply dug, and usually some extra fertility 

 can be supplied. A peach tree must have some sun, but a grape-vine 

 will get along with less and can be trained up to shade the back door, 

 if shade there is wanted. The "brambles" — raspberries, blackberries 

 — can be grown almost against a fence. A dozen strawberry plants 

 can be set in a square yard of space, and if the ground is fertile and 

 the cultivation is good, the red fruit that ripens will be delightful. 

 A dwarf pear tree can be caused to produce wonderful fruit in a corner, 

 and for a little larger area there are fascinating possibilities in 

 developing other dwarf fruit trees intensively. 



_^ f -p ■+ Indeed, the dwarf trees offer much fun and some 



/p fruit to the possessor of but a restricted area of land. 



They are in variety and cjuality the same as the 

 standard trees, but being grown on "stocks" or roots that restrict the 

 plant-food supplied by the soil, they mature into fruiting at smaller 

 size and often at an earlier date. They are advised as "fillers," and 

 for getting a larger variety in a smaller space. 



Dwarf fruit trees in a formal planting 



