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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February 1906 



The dwarf trees are more easily sprayed and a high 

 quality of fruit is assured 



Bismarck you will find a good, short, heavy 

 grower, a good cropper, and the fruit of good 

 quality. 



Alexander is a good second to Bismarck. 

 The fruit is large but not as attractive. 



Oldenburg is the best early apple. 



Beauty of Kent is early and good. The 

 fruit is as large as Bismarck but it is a short 

 cropper. 



Last, but not least, I should recommend 

 the Baldwin, which is too well known to 

 need mention here. 



In pears, I should recommend Williams' 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme, a good early one; 

 Nouveau Taiteau, a much better pear except 

 that it winter kills in the latitude of Long 

 Island. I think it would be hardy as far 

 north as Philadelphia. 



Bartlett is very good for this work — a little 

 rapid in growth — but the fruit repays the 

 extra labor. 



Banjo is also an excellent pear. 



Among late pears I have found the follow- 

 ing the best : Howell, Worden Seckel, Duch- 

 esse dAngouleme, Beurre dAnjou and Fer- 

 tility. 



Peaches, plums, apricots and other small 

 fruit require treatment of much the same 

 kind as the larger, except that their rapid 

 growth requires more tying. On account of 

 early flowering the peach crop is often injured 

 by late frost ; this can be eliminated by throw- 

 ing frost-proof blankets over the wires and 

 letting them hang down over the trees. 



One of the best features of these trees is 

 the economy of space. If you have a stable 

 or an outhouse which you wish to cover, you 

 can plant a trained fruit tree against it. 

 If you are contemplating planting a hedge 

 to shut off something unsightly, put in a row 

 of trained fruit trees instead, and you will 

 have something that not only answers the 

 purpose but will give you some return for 

 your monev. 



Planted two years, this tree bore a good crop of fruit 

 last year. It is full of fruit spurs for next season 



People who do not wish to go to the ex- 

 pense of buying high-class trees, can have 

 good results by buying young stock from the 

 nursery, "whips" as they are called. 



Get good short-jointed growers and plant 

 them about eight feet apart. After planting 

 cut the top off just above the bottom wire, 

 and when they start to grow train them to the 

 other wires in the position you want. You 

 will find by this method that you will have a 

 nice little fruit tree in three years. In fact, 

 I have fruited this class of trees in the third 

 season from the lime of planting. 



Fruit crops on useless walls. One advantage of the trained tree is that (I can be planted against a wall and if the soil is properly enriched a crop of fruit is har- 

 vested. No waste space about the base of the tree. The shoots are tied to a wire trellis, as if trained against the wall they would be too hot in summer 



