The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23
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Dwarf Fruit Trees
By &. c. Nick AI.

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trees deserve a place in the average
home garden. We Americans could
have learned years ago from England,
France, Germany. Holland, Belgium
and Italy that the most delightful and
most profitable Of fruit paintings for
home use Is to be secured by using
dwarf fruit trees. Whether the dwarf
orchard has two trees or twenty trees,
ii is not merely a toy. 1t actually
pays and the best of 1t is, that these
little trees occupy so much less room,
require little work and commence bear
Ing much quicker than do the stand
ard size fruit trees.
Dwarf fruit trees are distinctly for
the amateur and the home plantation.
They enable him to have varieties
which cannot be found commercially.
and to secure an assortment which will
give fruit in succession over an ex-
tended season. He may have his own
apples from July to January or an al
most continuous succession OF peaches
for ten or twelve weeks.
Most dwarf apples are budded on
doucin roots to produce the dwarf
style. Even under conditions of neg
lect these trees will rarely grow more
than twenty feet high. BY a small
amount OF wise annual pruning they
may easily be grown to ten or twelve
feet high when mature. Some apple
varieties are budded on paradise roots
These trees will rarely grow more than
ten or twelve feet high. BY judicious
pruning however, they can be grown
to six or eight feet high when mature
The trees on doucin roots may be
planted from ten to twelve feet 10
twenty feet apart. depending on the
height it is intended to grow them.
When on paradise roots they may be
planted eight or ten feet apart. Some
OF these trees fruit the first or second
year after planting. Most any OF them
may be expected TO begin bearing at
least the third or fourth year. the
difference Is that some varities natu-
rally bear younger than others.
Dwarfed pear trees may be planted
from ten to fourteen feet apart de-
pending on the size tree the planter
intends to secure. They may grow to
twelve or even fifteen feet in height.
depending on the variety, but can be
easily grown to eight or ten feet high
when mature by practising more Sc
we're dormant prunings. Dwarfing i'm
proves the pear in quality even more
than the other fruits. They are the
best Of the fruits to grow in the pyra-
mid shape, and succeed we'll trained in
the Gordon and espalier against fences
or trellises.
All pears require heavy strong soil,
clay loan or even strong clay giving
far better results than light soils. The
standard pears furthermore need dry
soil, but as the dwarfs are budded on
ounce roots they may thrive either on
dry or wet ground.
Cherries, like the other fruits, are
dwsff led by pfopagdtihg on slower
growing roots than we use the
standard trees. The sweet varieties
may be planted ten to fifteen feet
apart, ten feet being amply sufficient
! where II is planned to make the annual
dormant pruning severe to aid toward
! Inducing the more dwarf habit Of
growth.
The sour cherries are generally
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from eight TO twelve feet apart.
Cherries do we'll in almost any soil, ex-
cept that 1t must not be wet.
In the entire eastern part of the
United States, except for the apple.
probably no fruit does so we'll as the
cherry. In northern New York and
the coolest parts of New England the
sweet cherries do not stand the severe
winter cold. but there are very few
localities where the sour cherry can
not be grown. Dwarf CHERRIES most
naturally grow in the bush form.
Sweet varieties are stronger growers
than sours, while the sours are in
clined to begin fruiting almost right
away. Under average conditions the
sweets may require three or four years
torbegin fruiting. Both the sweets and
sours are wonderfully beautiful in the
spring blooming-fully as ornamental
as the spring Towering shrubs BY
selecting, say, four varieties which
ripen in succession, IL is possible 70
have cherries for three or four weeks.
Dwarf plums may be planted ten or
twelve feet apart. some planters claim
! ing 10 get good results planted even a
little closer than this when they are