‘Ike RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
729 
Is it a Dwarf? 
Last year I set out a few apple trees 
which were supposedly propagated on the 
Doucin stock. I am inclosing photograph 
showing one of these trees before pruning 
this Spring. It seems to me that the 
growth has been excessive for what was 
supposedly a dwarf. I am unable to 
locate anybody in this vicinity who can 
confirm this impression, however. Will 
you refer the photo to someone whose ex¬ 
perience in growing dwarf apple trees 
has been sufficient to justify an opinionV 
My wife, who was holding the cloth back¬ 
ground for this photo, is five feet seven 
inches tall, and the season’s growth of 
the longest shoots was almost exactly 
three feet. C. M. o. 
Connecticut. 
I do not recall of ever having seen 
apple that had been worked on Doucin 
stock make quite so much growth of new 
wood in a single year, yet it is possible 
they may do so if planted in rich soil and 
given good cultivation. Large-growing 
varieties do not make true dwarfs when 
Worked on Doucin stocks. Dwarfs are 
produced by the use of what are known 
as Paradise apple, which rarely attains 
Is This a Dwarf Apple Tree? 
a height of more than four feet, and any¬ 
one who wishes to grow dwarf apple 
trees should make sure that they are 
worked on Paradise stocks. Trees on 
these stocks rarely grow over six to eight 
feet high, while trees worked on Doucin 
stocks ultimately grow quite large and 
are known as semi-dwarfs. It must be 
remembered that trees usually make 
greater length of top growth when young 
than they will after they have become 
older and more nearly reached their max¬ 
imum size. K. 
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Reports on the Peach Crop 
So far as I have been able to ascer¬ 
tain, peach buds in orchards located on 
good elevations have come through the 
cold weather of the end of March in good 
shape. Trees on low ground are practi¬ 
cally out of business. Some injury was 
done in some places by the cold weather 
in January. In fact, this is more in evi¬ 
dence than the damage of the recent cold 
wave. Of course there is plenty of oppor¬ 
tunity for peaches to drop, having been 
affected by the cold weather, but not en¬ 
tirely killed. CHESTER J. TYSON. 
Adams Co., Pa. 
I have heard of no injury to the buds. 
Our County Demonstrator reports all in 
good shape; he thought it was the same 
over the State. So far as I have been 
able to see there is a fair prospect of the 
usual bloom, except on Kieffer pears, 
which in some orchards seem shy. espe¬ 
cially those infested with the pear psylla 
last year. The buds examined recently 
from peach trees near the river showed 
rather an unusual number of perfect 
germs, and the samples were taken from 
the home supply trees. 
HOWARD 0. TAYLOR. 
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The peach men ia this locality report 
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the orchards that were not too badly hurt 
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