The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-07
DWARF FRUIT TREES IN POTS.
The Smallest Landowner May Have a
Few Trees.

1t has long been an acknowledged fact
that fruit grown under glass far sur
passes the ordinary outdoor orchard yarI-
ETY. as to size, taste and appearance But
in this country it does not seem to be SO
universally understood that the Euro
pean way, so frequently employed, OF
raising fruit trees in flower pots is by far
the easiest and most satisfactory Of all
methods. In the first place, these pot
grown trees produce their fruit very
soon, in some cases in half the time ordi-
nary fruit could be grown, then they
take up less room than if planted along
the usual greenhouse border, and lastly
the fruit produced if properly managed
is the best obtainable on the market.
! Probably the fact that this method of
planting takes up less room than any
other, and so is possible in small glass
house, or even sun parlor, not more than
dozen feet wide. for instance, has
proven the greatest inducement to the
largest number of people. For ample OPP
portunities are given for an inexpensive
and small greenhouse, whereas the large,
elaborate kinds would prove prohibitive
TO the average suburbante.
Buying the Trees.
Now the first essentials in purchasing
stock for ported fruit trees is to 60 TO a
reliable dealer, and TO order early. In
ordering it should be clearly understood
that the trees are to be pot-grown so
that the nurseryman will only furnish
stock which has been pot-grown and
grated on dwarf stock. otherwise all
attempts at proper growth viii prove
entirely futile. Plants taken from the
ordinary open ground and suddenly con-
fined in the limited space Of a l5.incb
flower pot would never do well, there
fore great emphasis is laid on ordering
only from a well-known and reliable
nurseryman.
These small trees don't need great heat 1
in order TO bear satisfactorily. II the /
temperature averages 45 degrees al night /
they viii be perfectly safe, and when I
they arrive frCm the dealers il il well /,
10 keep them cool for while and some /
what dry until the time TO start their
growth. As The trees begin 20 bear a I
temperature Of 90 degrees at night should /
b. maintained, gradually increasing mp \
30 IS degrees until the fruit ripens. when |
the temperature NAV b. carefully and |
gradually lowered again Although 1
these trees suffer hardly a. all from in-
scet pests. when they are first started
great care should b. taken 10 spray them
frequently IN order 10 have an even run
n sap. which VII insure the setting If
ID the fruit 81 one time. But when THE
rsss are setting. the spraying shuuld. of
Huurss. - discontinued, and when thcg
re IN flower tapping them Wil greatly
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