and so several varieties covering the season can be planted 
in a small garden. As for the Fruit Grower, he can plant 
twice as many trees and he picks fruit twice as soon. 
They bear a generous crop of bigger, more luscious 
and richly colored fruit than large trees do. No waiting 
years for fruit. Dwarf trees mature faster, thus bearing 
10 to 12 years earlier than standard trees do. As a general 
rule, all dwarf fruit trees are fruit bearing at three years, 
with the exception of peaches and nectarines which varie- 
ties bear at two years. Under normal conditions, dwarf 
trees should bear fruit the following year after planting. 
Because Dwarf fruit trees are limited in height, they 
are easier to prune—easier to spray—and fruit is easily 
harvested with a reduced damaged crop. Most dwarf trees 
will reach full bearing age at 8 years. 
At maturity, the Dwarf fruit tree attains a height of 
5 to 10 feet and the Semi-Dwarf fruit trees 12 to 15 feet. 
Plant Dwarf fruit trees 8 to 10 feet distance each way. 
Plant Semi-Dwarf trees 15 to 20 feet distance each way, 
according to variety and soil. But, if space permits, fruit 
trees may be planted further apart, if desired. 
Much interest has developed in dwarf fruit trees since 
divers experimental stations throughout the country were 
able to prove to both the trade and the gardeners alike, 
that apples grafted or budded on certain of the Malling 
stocks really are size-controlled, early cropping, long last- 
ing and fruitful, and the call for such trees has been far 
greater than the supply. 
Of course, some critical fruit growers whose experience 
with dwarf trees in the past was disappointing, are still 
unconvinced that dwarf apples are any good and in some 
instances they have more or less advised gardeners against 
even trying dwarf trees even though they had no experience 
with pedigreed root stocks. Visit the large plantings at 
some of the leading Experimental Stations where all the 16 
types of Malling stocks have been under test for years— 
full sized trees in many varieties, showing the merits of 
each type of stock. 
Malling stocks are not really new—they are simply the 
result of careful selection over a series of years from all the 
so-called Paradise, Doucin and other stocks that were in 
use in Europe. In the course of a century or two, varying 
types of the root propagated stocks had become pretty 
much mixed and when buying from wholesale propaga- 
tors, a grower was liable to have a wide variation in the 
growth of the variation he worked—of the existing nine 
so-called doucin or paradise rootstocks, some five were 
especially selected as the best available for Dwarf and 
Semi-Dwarf fruit trees to provide a range of performances 
to cover all needs. They contain within themselves all the 
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