This apple tree is only two years old with fruit as heavy as a pound a piece. 
You will not need a ladder to pick the fruit for the tree is less than 3 feet tall. 
TALMETTE” PEAR TREE, in training 
is only three years old, bearing large a 
process at our Nursery, 
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nd delicious fruit. 
Eour year old APPLE TREE with horizontal branches. 
HERE IS ECONOMY COMBINED WITH ARTISTIC EFFECT. 
BEAUTIFY YOUR 
HOME WITH 
ESPALIER FRUIT 
TREES 
IIoav would you like to have an 
apple vine growing over your front 
porch with luscious apples smiling 
down from the pillars? Or a nice 
cherry trained up on the side of 
your house or bungalow with gor¬ 
geous clusters of big, juicy cherries 
peeping in at the window? Imagine, 
if you can, a vine covered pergola 
hanging full of big, juicy pears, 
peaches, plums or apricots. 
The trailing type of fruit trees, 
or ESPALIER, has been raised 
successfully in Europe, and it has 
already been proven that they w r ill 
grow and do well in this country, 
but due to restrictions on the im¬ 
portation of foreign trees being so 
drastic, the operation of importing 
the Espalier stock into this country 
was rather difficult. However the 
problem has been solved by the U. 
S. Espalier Nursery Co., being suc¬ 
cessful in importing material for 
both foundation stock and scions 
with which to form., a nucleus. By 
carrying on the propagation of 
these, there is now a considerable 
amount of choice varieties of 
Espalier trees in the hands of re¬ 
liable nurserymen of the Pacific 
Coast. Well trained trees (many 
of them bearing size) for ECON¬ 
OMY as well as ORNAMENT. 
The ESPALIER fruit trees are 
ideal for landscape work, to beauti¬ 
fy gardens and houses. These trees 
can be made into wonderful de¬ 
signs. In order to accomplish real 
beauty with the ESPALIER some 
handwork is necessary, but it is 
extremely fascinating work and 
will no doubt appeal to the growers 
who like to take care of their own 
plantings, as well as the owners of 
lar~e estates where professional 
gardners are in charge. 
Anyone can have a nice “family 
orchard” on an ordinary city lot 
without sacrificing any ground to 
speak of. One or two each of apples, 
pears, cherries, plums, peaches and 
apricots will supply all the fruit an 
average family will want and can 
be grown on a fence across the back 
of the lot or up against the house. 
Contrary to ordinary vines, the 
ESPALIER trees will keep their 
beauty the year around. First are 
the blossoms, then later the fruit, 
which grows more and more attrac¬ 
tive as it comes to maturity. Even 
in winter, when the foliage is gone, 
the symmetrical way in which the 
trees have been trained makes an 
attractive picture. The ESPALIER 
TREE usually begins bearing fruit 
in the third ve?. r. 
