Year: 1861

DWARF APPIEs.-The editor of Hoyeys Maga-
zine, calls attention to the utility and beauty of
dwarf apples. lie says;


We have for various reasons planted them on
the borders of the avenues, between dwarf pears,
planting the latter further apart to admit of a
dwarf apple between each. Here, forming small
bushes or pyramids not more than two feet high,
they are loaded with their splendid crlmsoncd-
hued fruits, forming pleasing contrast with the
golden pears. and gratifying the eye with the
continuity of rich foliage.


Why dwarf apples have not received more
attention it is difficult to say > unless IT is that
attention has not been drawn to their growth, or
from the fact that fine fruit il purchased so
cheapy that it is object TO raise it or perhaps
because to use cant phrase, 1t Will not pay. i"
For we hear it on all sides that the apples are
too cnmbrous a tree for small gardens, however
desirable the fruit and it must therefore, be re-
iected. This is so ; and those having but little
space prefer to give it to the pear, fruit not no
readily purchased, and only at very dear rate
If it was only generally known that dwarf apples
were as easily cultivated rs dwarf pears, were as
readily produced, were quite as ornamental OBJ
iects, and almost as valuable where the early
kinds arc selected, no garden, large or small,
would be without them. Early apples of fine
quality are never very plentiful in the market ;
they come even before many of the good peare,
and are quite as desirable as any other fruit.
| The French cultivate the apple almost eXclu-
sivey as dwarfs, in gardens Of greater or less
extent Trained in fancifu shapes. as pyramids,
goblets or espaliers, they border the main walks,
or from quarters by themselves, where they not
only produced an abundance OF fruit, but form
highly ornamental objects. What more beautiful
sight than the appletree when in full bloom
What more tempting to the eye, and what more
grateful to the appetite than its beautiful fruit?


Dwarf apples, then, let us say, are of the
easiest culture. The Paradise stock, on which
they are worked, will thrive in any ordinary
garden soil, properly enriched, for from the pro-


life character of the trees they need the latter.
The preparation for planting should be the same
as for the pear, viz: trenching two or three feet
deep. In setting out the trees, care should be
taken that the stock Is not covered 100 deep,
otherwise they might root from the graft, and
have such q vigOr infused into them that they
would soon become large trees. Mr.. VIM. Reid,
of Elizabethtown, N. j., who grows a pretty
collection of the best varieties in this way, in
formed us, that he erred in doing this to such an
extent that the whole of his trees had to be taken
up and reset. Plant just even with the surface of
the ground. The pruning is very simple, except
where the object is very symmetrical or fancy
shaped trees. Grown bushes, all that is
necessary is to keep the head open: pinch Off the
summer shoots, and head in the slender ones at
the winter pruning and if only the moderate
growing sorts are chosen, they will not occupy
more space than ii good sized currant bush and
produce two or three dozen of apples each.