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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 27 
DWARF PARADISE APPLES. 
The Rural New-Yorker has been 
keeping Paradise-stock apples before 
its readers for upwards of 20 years 
—with just what effect we do not know. 
Perhaps we may assume that, because 
we do not, is pretty good evidence that 
Our advocacy of these dwarfs for garden 
culture has not had much effect, or that, 
having been tried, they have been found 
wanting. Just the same, we shall con¬ 
tinue to commend them for the garden 
or for small home orchards. As com¬ 
bining the ornamental and the useful, 
we prefer the Paradise dwarfs to any of 
the dwarf pears. The trees do not grow 
so large and, in our experience, they 
bear earlier. The blossoms of the little 
apple trees are just as pretty as are 
those of many shrubs which are culti¬ 
vated for their blossoms alone ; as, for 
example, the single thorns, Exochorda 
grandiflora, the dogwoods, Spindle trees 
(Euonymus), Mock oranges (Philadel- 
phus), Mountain ash, the dwarf horse 
chestnuts and lots of others. Paradise 
dwarf apples may, by proper pruning 
be restrained to the height of lilacs, the 
taller spirmas, barberries or other hardy 
shrubs of intermediate height. In from 
two to four years, they begin to bear, 
and they often bear so heavily as to re¬ 
quire staking, the same as do plum trees 
or Angouidme dwarf pears. There are 
some varieties of apples that, on Para 
dise stock, grow larger and are highe 
colored than as standards. Among them 
we may mention Alexander, Porter, Reci 
Astrachan, Benoni, Wagener, Northern 
Spy. We do not and have not advised 
our friends to go into Paradise apples on 
a large scale, but we confidently recom 
mend them to try a few trees in their 
gardens instead of the ornamental trees 
and shrubs we have mentioned which, 
bearing no edible fruit, are prettier 
neither in foliage, habit nor flower. 
That our readers may be well informed 
as to the value of these dwarfs, we sent 
the following questions to many of the 
best pomologists in the country, and 
their replies follow : 
1. What has been your experience with apples 
on Paradise stock ? 2. When do they begin to 
bear? 3. How tall do they grow ? 4. How long 
do they live ? 5. How should we prune them ? 6. 
How many apples do they bear to a tree ? 7. 
Why not plant them between the standards of a 
new orchard, to be removed when the standards 
come into bearing? 
Ex-United States Pomologist, H. E 
Van Deman, replies : 
1. I have done very little with dwarf apple 
trees, but have grown a few for fun more than 
for profit. They will grow all right and bear, too, 
but they are small and toy-like. The fruit is as 
large as the same varieties on standard trees. 
I knew one neighbor in Kansas who had nearly 
an acre in dwarf apples set close like dwarf 
pears, and they bore fairly well; but he never 
considered them so profitable as his standard 
trees. May be it was more of a notion than any¬ 
thing else, but, somehow, he did not think his 
dwarf apple orchard profitable. 2. They begin 
to bear almost as soon as set, and rarely later 
than at three years old from the bud. 3. Ten feet 
is about as high as any I have ever seen, and they 
were in very good soil. 4. They have lived and 
remained healthy for 20 years, to my certain 
knowledge. 5. Dwarf apple trees should be 
pruned to have very low heads, the trunks almost 
nothing, not over a foot or two high. Then head 
back all tall or straggling shoots, and thin out 
water sprouts that appear. 6. I cannot tell how 
much fruit they will bear. 7. I would not plant 
them between standard trees that are finally to 
crowd them out because, first, they will cost 
more than common trees; second, they will not 
bear much sooner, or any more per acre than such 
early-bearing kinds as Wagener and Missouri. 
Prof. J. L. Budd, of the Iowa Agricul¬ 
tural College, replies: 
In all parts of Iowa, the hardiest varieties are 
liable to be root-killed when on Paradise roots. 
In central and northern Iowa, this root will not 
endure an ordinary winter. The best stock for 
dwarf apple trees in the prairie States is what is 
known as Pyrus Toringo. Indeed, we have good 
authority for the belief that the latter is the east 
European type from which have sprung the many 
variations of the Paradise stocks found in west¬ 
ern Europe. We find our seedlings of Pyrus 
Toringo exceedingly variable. We could select, 
t, 100 very distinct varieties from a single 
row; but all are as low and bushy in habit as 
the different Paradise strains. We find this stock 
as hardy, apparently, as our native crab apple. 
My belief is that, budded on this stock, some of 
our tardy varieties would be hastened in their 
period of bearing paying crops. 
(Continued on neat page). 
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