Dwarf Fruit Trees

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Frank Albert Waugh. Dwarf Fruit Trees

PREFACE

I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

DWARFING STOCKS

II. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

SPECIAL USES FOR DWARF TREES

SOME DISADVANTAGES

III. PROPAGATION

THE APPLE

THE PEAR

THE PEACH

THE PLUM

NURSERY MANAGEMENT

IV. PRUNING DWARF FRUIT TREES

V. SPECIAL FORMS FOR TRAINED TREES

VI. GENERAL MANAGEMENT

VII. DWARF APPLES

VIII. DWARF PEARS

IX. DWARF PEACHES

X. DWARF PLUMS

XI. BUSH FRUITS

XII. FRUIT TREES IN POTS

XIII. PERSONALIA

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A dwarf fruit tree is simply one which does not reach full size. It is not so large as it might be expected to be. It is smaller than a normal tree of the same variety and age.

There are indeed some trees which are normally dwarf, so to speak. They never reach a considerable size. They are smaller than other better known and related species. For example, the species Prunus pumila besseyi is sometimes called the dwarf sand cherry, simply because it is always notably smaller than related species. The Paradise apple is spoken of as a dwarf because it never attains the stature which other apples attain.

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Now if there is anywhere within reach a market for apples or peaches at $3 a dozen specimens—and there unquestionably is—then it will pay to grow fancy fruits with special care to meet this demand. This kind of fruit can be grown better upon dwarf trees than upon standards in many cases, if not in most. At least such is the conviction of the present writer. Moreover this has been the experience in the old country.

With such facts in view there seems to be a possible future for dwarf fruit trees, even for commercial purposes. Their present utility in amateur gardens and on wealthy private estates can not be questioned. These various amateur and commercial adaptations of dwarf trees will have to be more carefully analyzed and discussed in a future chapter, and the subject may therefore be dropped for the present.

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