December 1, 1909 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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developing growths. None of the nur- 
Serymen visited carried any quantity of 
j@rge specimen trees as here, in fact, they 
do not care to handle trees over 2 to 23 in 
in diameter. Throu ghout all his travels 
Mr Brown found no particular demand 
for large trees. 
The traye.ler was much impressed with 
the system adopted by Croux et Fils at 
Chatenay, France, some ten miles out of — 
Paris. The general layout of the nur- 
Series excited his admiration,‘as did also 
the large varicty of the fine specimen 
Conifers, These nurseries carry a- large 
; Acreage of dwarf fruit trees of all kinds, 
having probably the finest and most 
xtensive collection in Europe, They 
have started a new nursery, at some dis- 
tance from ihe old one, of 100 acres, 5) 
Acres oi which have been set cut in dwarf 
8nd trained fruits, many of which are 
8town on the espalier system. Last year 
the Cottage Gardens Co. made largo im- 
Portations of dwarf apples from England 
View in Plantation of Remarkable Pine (Pinus insignus), Bundaleer 
Forest, 18 years’ growth. 
and of dwarf pears from Croug et Fils, and 
this year they are also mporting exten- 
sively. More particularly for private 
places, one great fuctor in favour of these 
dwarf varieties in this country is that 
they are far easier to spray and thus to 
keep clear from scale. Questioned as to 
whether scale was not more prone t) artack 
dwarf fruits than the standards, Mr 
Brown replie | in the nesative, stating it 
was simply a quostion of constitution, the 
scalo naturally attaching the weaker 
plants of either kind. His endeavour 
was to make importations of dwarf varie- 
ties which have beon found to do well in 
America grown as standards and the 
Company is also irying the best Euro-. 
pean sorts. Mr Brown states that the 
demand for dwarf fruits is increasing 
ra; idly in the United States, this class 
of trees being greatly in favour among 
those who have had experience with them, 
and that, when properly handled, they 
give immense yields. 
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Ag an instance in point, Mr Brown 
spoke of the excellent crops of dwarf fruit. 
yieldel by the plantations of Paul 
Cravath, Esq., at Locust Valley, L. L., 
where he had seen even larger crops of 
fruit than on the Continent. 
‘As to dwarf pears, the Freuch varieties 
lead the world. and the growers there, 
having devoted their attention to this 
fruit for years, have many varieties which 
are superior to our best in America, and 
it has been found that some of these have 
done very well here, being also absolutely 
as hardy asthe standards. Another point 
in favour of the dwarf fruit is their hand- 
iness with which the trees may be gotten 
at for praning and the relatively small 
space of ground they occupy, making them 
especially desirable for limited areas on. 
small country places. 
The concern of Barbier et Cie, Orleans 
France, with a nursery of 250 acres, grow 
all their seedlings and cuttings in sym- 
metrially laid out beds, and show acres 
