. Barry's Fruit garden. Fruit-culture. THE FRUIT GARDEN. 207 Tlie Apple for Dwarfs.—The apple, worked 0:1 tlie Paradise, makes a beautiful little dw arf bush. We know of nothing more interesting in the fruit garden than a row or a little square of these miniature apple-trees (fig. 102), either in blossom or in fruit. Those who have not seen them may imagine an apple-tree, four feet high, and the same in width of branches, covered with blossoms in the spring, or loaded with magnificent golden and crim- son fruit in the autumn. They begin to bear the third year from the bud, and the same variety
. Barry's Fruit garden. Fruit-culture. THE FRUIT GARDEN. 207 Tlie Apple for Dwarfs.—The apple, worked 0:1 tlie Paradise, makes a beautiful little dw arf bush. We know of nothing more interesting in the fruit garden than a row or a little square of these miniature apple-trees (fig. 102), either in blossom or in fruit. Those who have not seen them may imagine an apple-tree, four feet high, and the same in width of branches, covered with blossoms in the spring, or loaded with magnificent golden and crim- son fruit in the autumn. They begin to bear the third year from the bud, and the same variety is always larger and finer on them than on standards. We have had JRed Astrachans on Paradise that measured eleven inches in circumference. The French plant a square or compart- ment of these in the kitchen or fruit garden, as they do gooseberries and currants, six feet apart; they also alter- nate them with pyramidal pear-trees, in rows; and in some of the best mixed kitchen and fruit gardens two dwarf apples are planted between two pyramidal pears, thus giving double the number of apples as of the pears in a border or row. In small gardens, the apple should not be admitted under any other form, and even to a limited extent in that; for it is the great fruit of the orchard., and in nearly all parts of this country extensive- ly grown, and can be purchased at very moderate rates. Dwarf Apple trained 171 Horizontal Cordon.—In Eu-. Fig. 103,—APPLE CORDOK (Single). ropean gardens, the dwarf apple is frequently trained on what are called " horizontal cordons " along the walk borders, and are very pretty objects. The cordon, as the drawing (fig. 103) shows, consists. 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 Barry, Patrick, 1816-1890. [from old catalog]. New York, Orange Judd company
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