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THE MINIATURE FRUIT GARDEN 



success, and very charming fruitful trees they make. 

 They should not be allowed to grow above seven, 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 CRAB STOOK. 



In soils light and poor, the apple on the Paradise 

 stock is, unless carefully manured on the surface, apt 

 to become stunted and unhealthy. In 

 such soils, and also in those of a very 

 tenacious nature, pyramids on the crab 

 stock may be planted with great ad- 

 vantage. They are also well adapted 

 for large gardens where large quanti- 

 ties of fruit are required, as the trees 

 may 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 pyramids — they 

 must either be lifted or taken up bien- 

 nially early in November, and replanted 

 in the manner recommended for bush 

 pear trees, or root-pruned biennially, 

 operating upon the trees alternately, as 

 mentioned in note to p. 12 ; or the fol- 

 lowing system maybe adopted : neither 

 remove nor root-prune any tree that continues to grow 

 with moderation, does not canker, and bears well ; 

 but any tree that makes shoots from eighteen inches 

 to three feet in length, remove once in two, three, or 

 four years, till its vigorous habit is reduced. 



