Chapter II: Preface: v

I. General Considerations 1

II. Advantages and Disadvantages 8

III. Propagation 22

IV. Pruning 33

V. Special Forms 41

VI. General Management 51

VII. Dwarf Apples 63

VIII. Dwarf Pears 76

IX. Dwarf Peaches 83

X. Dwarf Plums 90

XI. Bush Fruits 99

XII. Fruit Trees in Pots 106

XIII. Personalia 112

Index 125

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Dwarf Cherry Tree _Frontispiece_

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1 Dwarf Apple Trees in Western New York 3

2 Trained Cordon Apple Trees 5

3 Bismarck Apple 7

4 Pear Tree Trained as an Espalier 9

5 Bush Apple Tree 11

6 Plums as Upright Cordons 17

7 Paradise Apple Stocks in Early Spring 25

8 The Western Sand Cherry 30

9 Upright Cordon Plum 31

10 Bush Apple 34

11 Bush Apple, Three Years Old, Before Pruning 37

12 Bush Apple, Same Tree, After Pruning 37

13 Cordon Pears Before Pruning 39

14 Cordon Pears After Pruning 39

15 Pears in Double U Form 43

16 Pears in U Form 45

17 Apricots in U Form 47

18 Pear in Espalier 48

19 Old Espalier Pears on Farm House Wall 49

20 Horizontal Cordon Apple and Other Dwarf Trees 52

21 Design for a Back Yard Fruit Garden 53

22 Dwarf Fruit Garden 55

23 Fruit Gardening and Landscape Gardening Combined 59

24 A Fruit Garden Containing Many Dwarf Trees 61

25 Dwarf Apples on Prof. L. H. Bailey's Farm, New York 65

26 Upright Cordon Apples 67

27 Horizontal Cordon Apple Trees 71

28 Young Orchard of Dwarf Pear in Western New York 76

29 Dwarf Pear in the Old and Profitable Yeomans
Orchard, New York 77

30 Orchard of Dwarf Duchess Pear, Lockport, N. Y. 79

31 Pyramid Pears in a German Orchard 80

32 Dwarf Peach in Nursery 84

33 Espalier Peach, Hartford, Conn. 85

34 Peach in Fan Espalier on Wall--England 87

35 Peach Trees Trained Under Glass 88

36 Plum Trees Trained as Upright Cordons 91

37 Burbank Plums on Upright Cordons Trained to Trellis 95

38 Currants as Fan Espaliers on Trellis 100

39 Gooseberry Fan Espalier 102

40 Tree Form Gooseberry 104

41 A Fruiting Peach in Pot 108

42 A Fig Tree in a Pot 110

43 Dwarf Pear 117

44 Chenango Apples in Prof. L. H. Bailey's Orchard 121

DWARF FRUIT TREES