TREES 
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To be sure anything is trouble when done 
hit or miss; disorder makes everything dif- 
ficult. But the system and scientific manage- 
ment about which we are constantly hearing 
so much these days are as applicable to run- 
ning a home as to running a business — to rais- 
ing vegetables and fruits and flowers as to 
raising dividends. Reduced to order and sys- 
tem, the care of the space usually given up to 
raising grass which must be cut at least once a 
week to keep it in good shape will not take up 
any more time actually if vegetables take the 
place of grass, than this weekly running about 
it with the lawnmower. 
The gardeners of Europe have developed 
the most efficient method of growing fruit trees 
in small space, especially the gardeners of 
France. Briefly it consists in flattening the 
tree — a dwarfed form is always chosen for 
such training — against a wall or fence where 
it is retained by being tied or otherwise securely 
fastened, the same as a grape vine would be 
held in place. One form into which trees are 
thus developed — the upright cordon — admits 
setting them within eighteen or twenty inches 
of each other, along a wall or fence that is 
six to eight feet in height. Another — the hori- 
zontal cordon — which carries two branches 
