Cbe 'Rational Rnrser^man. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERYSTOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXVII._HATBORO, PENNA. JUNE, 1919_No. 6 
TRAINED FRUIT TREES 
Well cared for trained fruit trees are the ear marks of 
a good garden. It is generally recognized among 
high grade private gardeners, that if the trained wall 
fruits, espaliers, pyramids and cordons were in good 
shape, practically everything else under the gardener’s 
care would be. 
While their care is very simple, it has to be learnt, 
only the skilled gardener who is a craftsman knows how 
to do it. 
It is amusing or tragic, whichever way you look at it, 
to note the returning visitor from the gardens of Europe, 
full of enthusiasm about the wonderful trained fruit- 
trees, buy imported trees and see them die or run wild. 
While it is not quite so easy to keej) them in good con¬ 
dition under the climatic conditions of x\merica as it is 
in Europe, the possibilities have been demonstrated be¬ 
yond all question, and what is more interesting a very 
able gardener, who was eminently successful in growing 
and fruiting dwarf and trained fruit expressed the 
opinion that it was possible to grow them so as to be com¬ 
mercially profitable. 
There is a tremendous field for the enterprising nur¬ 
seryman, along this line awaiting development hut it is 
not likely to be one that will give ciiiick results, but 
everyone knows who has had anything to do with the 
American buying public the nurseryman could name his 
own jirice if he could show his customers dwarf and 
trained fruit trees in hearing and in condition to he suc¬ 
cessfully transplanted at the proper season and instruct 
the purchaser how to care for them. 
