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Excerpt from The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, 1861, Vol. 27
Dwarf apple culture, which has as yet received but little attention, is a subject deserving the especial notice of fruit growers. The apple, as a standard, has been almost excluded from suburban gardens, on account of the room required for the trees, and their long time in coming into bearing. But Dwarf trees, as objects of ornament as well as luxury, are scarcely less valuable than the pear. They need but little space, come into bearing immediately, and a small plantation of them will supply an abundance of fruit of the finest quality. Their importance has been altogether overlooked. The truth with standards is, that when they begin to bear they produce more fruit than is needed, and they do not afford a variety or succession, unless several sorts are grafted on a tree. Dwarfs obviate this; a single tree or two produces as many of one sort as are wanted, and the little room they occupy allows the planting of two or three dozen varieties, which ripen their fruit every week from July to winter. They supply the pos sessor with apples of varied beauty, dissimilar ?avor, and the highest excellence. We shall have more to say about them hereafter.
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