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usually more permanent than on trees of full size. In suc- 

 ceeding seasons, the dwarf tree flowers well, and the flowers, 

 for the most part, remain longer, than on the old or large 

 trees ; little fruit, however, comes to maturity, and that little 

 is not good. The Peaches are without juice, and the Plums 

 remain hard. 



Of fruit trees the Chinese admire most the dwarf Plum tree. 

 Should it be hollow, with its boughs twisted and contorted 

 into all kinds of fantastic forms, it is so much the more es- 

 teemed ; for such a dwarf tree a very large price will be 

 cheerfully given. Of forest trees the Elm seems to be the 

 most approved, and it is the most common ; but being much 

 more easily formed than the Plum, its value is never so con- 

 siderable. 



