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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1912 



Vegetables and bush fruits between the trees. Fruits 

 pay the entire cost as the orchard grows 



Astrachan have yielded more than Baldwin, 

 Spy and Gravenstein. 



The varieties that have succeeded best 

 are Greening, Yellow Transparent, Bis- 

 marck, Red Astrachan, Gillitlower, Fall 

 Pippin and Fameuse. 



Gravenstein, Spy, Duchess, Wealthy 

 and Lady are slow growers and have not 

 produced fruit enough to be of importance. 



Baldwin is a fast growing variety but 

 has not produced a proportional amount 

 of fruit. 



Pears bear even at an earlier age than 

 the apples; Bartlett bore fruit the first 

 year set, and every year since; Seckel 

 was covered with blossoms, but has set 

 no fruit as yet. 



All my trees are budded on the Par- 

 adise stock and were received from the 

 nursery when only one year from the bud, 

 and branched. These trees were planted 

 in their permanent location and pruned 

 back to three or four buds to a branch to 

 produce stocks for top working. I have 

 top worked as many as a dozen such 



branches by budding, and have changed 

 the entire top of the tree without the loss 

 of a single bud by failure to unite with the 

 stock. The trees that were to be left 

 without top working received the same 

 treatment in pruning the first season, 

 except that they were again summer 

 pruned to start the formation of fruit 

 spurs. 



It has been my experience that summer 

 pruning promotes fruit spurs and I have 

 pruned the trees severely with this aim in 

 view. This work can be done in summer 

 simply by pinching off the shoots with the 

 fingers. These are pruned back to three 

 or four buds in the spring, always having 

 the top bud one that grows to the outside 

 of the tree. I remove the shoots that cross 

 and bind each other in the tree. 



The currants and gooseberries planted 

 between the trees have borne enough 

 fruit to pay for the entire cost of the 

 orchard and if there is a crop this coming 

 year it will be clear profit. 



How about the vegetables? The same 

 amount of vegetables has been grown each 

 year as was grown before the orchard was 

 planted, yes, and more indeed! Before 

 the trees were planted the space was left 

 idle after the vegetables were exhausted; 

 but now I try to make the best use of the 

 space by successions and the joy of being 

 in the fruit garden induces me to give the 

 whole more care and attention in spraying 

 and cultivation. 



By my little experience with dwarf 

 fruits I have found that they can be grown 

 to better advantage in connection with 

 vegetables than standard trees, that they 

 will yield fruit of superior quality because 

 they can be cared for more easily and that 

 they offer best possibilities to the man 

 with but limited working space. Plant 

 some dwarf trees this spring! 



BEHAVIOR OF VARIETIES 



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NO. OF ,. „ „ 

 TREES VARIETY 



RESULTS 





Apples 





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Baldwin . 



Four fruits to tree third 

 year. Six each last year. 



5 



Greening . 



Fruit each year. 



5 



Russet . . 



A peck per tree last vear. 



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Spv 



Produced onlv one apple. 



4 



Falawater 



Five large apples two 

 years ago; four to tree 

 last year. 



3* 



Mcintosh 



Top worked two years 

 ago; fruit buds now. 



. 5 



Bismarck . 



Fruited same yearplanted ; 

 peck to tree last year. 



3* 



Yellow Trans- 







parent . 



Half bushel third year; 

 peck to tree this year. 



i* 



Sweet Bough 



Xo apples. 



2* 



Talman Sweet 



Twelve apples last year. 



3* 



Ladv . 



Three to a tree last year. 



2* 



Spitzenberg . 



Twelve to a tree last vear. 



IO 



Red Astrachan 



Peck to tree last vear. 



3* 



Gilliflower. 



A half bushel per tree. 



3* 



Twentv Ounce 



One apple. 



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Fall Pippin . 



A peck to a tree last year. 



2* 



Lemon Pippin 



Two to a tree last vear. 



3* 



Fameuse . 



One top worked tree pro- 

 duced a peck of apples. 



5 



Alexander . 



Two apples to one tree. 

 (Other trees none). 



5 



Wealthy . . 



No apples yet, but have 

 fruit spurs. 



4 



Duchess . 



Two apples to entire four 

 trees. 



5 



Stav man's 







Winesap 



Fruited two years, eight 

 apples to tree. 



i* 



Earlv Harvest 



A peck last vear. 



i* 



Ben Davis 



Fruited three years. A 

 peck last vear. 



3 



Gravenstein . 

 Pears 



Fruited three apples to 

 tree two years ago; 

 twelve to tree last year. 



5 



Bartlett . . 



Fruited even - year. Six to 

 a tree last vear. 



5 



Clapp's Favorite Three to a tree last year. 



5 



Seckel . 



Xo fruit but has blossomed 

 each year. 



5 



Duchess . 



Commenced bearing two 

 years ago. Six pears 

 last year. 



* Top worked. 





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The planting plan of the combination fruit and vegetable garden 



Troubles of Rose Growers 



REFERRING to the rose trouble men- 

 tioned in The Garden Magazine 

 for December, 1911, on page 222, I have 

 long since given up growing Francesca de 

 Kruger for the same reason as that of your 

 correspondent. I thought it was our 

 moist climate but it is not that which was 

 against it. A rose growing well is no 

 proof that one will get good roses. " Dig- 

 ging sheep manure about the roots of roses 

 several times until June 1st" seems to me 

 comical in its badness. 



Our rose growers should stand more on 

 their own feet and depend less on the trade. 

 The trade are concerned only for the stock 

 of one year and getting rid of it, and there- 

 fore have no opportunity of knowing how 

 well a rose may do after several years' 

 growth. 



There seems no means of eliminating 

 poor kinds like this. Large catalogues are 

 full of pitfalls; rose shows, too, because a 

 nurseryman with a large area of one kind 

 can show blooms that are no proof of the 

 variety being any good in the garden. 



England. Wm. Robinson. 



