. The miniature fruit garden ; or, The culture of pyramidal and bush fruit trees ... Fruit-culture. 80 THE MINIATURE FRTJIT GARDEN. success, and very cliarming fmitful trees they make. They should not bo allowed to grow above pcvcn feet in height, to which they will reach in the course of four or five years. I annex a figure of one of these trees, three years old, and full of fruit. (Fig. 16,) PYRAMIDAL APPLES ON THE CKAB BTOOK:. In soils light and poor, the apple on the Paradise stock is, vinless carefully manured on the surface, apt to Ijcfoiiie stunted and unhealthy. In such soils, and also
. The miniature fruit garden ; or, The culture of pyramidal and bush fruit trees ... Fruit-culture. 80 THE MINIATURE FRTJIT GARDEN. success, and very cliarming fmitful trees they make. They should not bo allowed to grow above pcvcn feet in height, to which they will reach in the course of four or five years. I annex a figure of one of these trees, three years old, and full of fruit. (Fig. 16,) PYRAMIDAL APPLES ON THE CKAB BTOOK:. In soils light and poor, the apple on the Paradise stock is, vinless carefully manured on the surface, apt to Ijcfoiiie stunted and unhealthy. In such soils, and also in tlii'se of a very tenacious nature, pyramids on the crab stock may be planted with L'reat ad- vantage. They are al^o well adapted tor larm eighteen inches to tlu'ee feet in length, remove once in two, three, or four yeai'8, liil its vigorous lialiit is Kiu. 1(1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Rivers, Thomas, 1798-1877. New York, O. Judd & company
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