red. Here I have the same variety grown on
one of my dwarf trees, not quite as well colored.

Now, the dwarf tree that bore these apples has been planted two years;
this is the second year of its growth in my own ground at Mound, on Lake
Minnetonka.

I have sixty dwarf trees, five of which have been in eight years, and
they have borne six crops of apples. The last ones I got two years ago,
and they were two years old when I got them. I planted five of these
dwarf trees at the same time that I planted forty standards. The dwarfs
have borne more fruit than the standards up to date. Of course, they
have only been in eight years. The standards are Wealthy, Duchess,
Northwestern Greening and one or two Hibernal and some crabs; the dwarf
stock is the Doucin. It is not the Paradise stock, which is grown in
England largely and some in France and Germany. My trees are a little
higher than my head, and I keep them pruned in a certain way. One of my
older trees the second year had ninety-six apples on it. It was a Yellow
Transparent, and they came to maturity very well. Several of my trees
are about four feet high. I had from twenty-five to fifty apples on
them, and they all ripened nicely. The Red Astrachan and the Gravenstein
and one Alexander had a few apples on them, and I notice that they are
well loaded with fruit buds for another year, which will be the third
year planted.

The care of these trees is probably a little more difficult than that of
the standard tree, or, at least, I give them special care. I have
attempted to bud into some of these, but in my experience they do not
take the bud very well. I can take a bud from one of the dwarfs and put
it on a standard, and it will grow all right, but I can't take a bud
from a standard and put it on a dwarf as successfully. I judge it is
because it isn't as rapid growing as the Hibernal, for instance, would
be. I notice the Hibernal is the best to take a bud because it is a
rapid growing tree and an excellent one on which to graft.

If I wanted to plant an orchard of forty or fifty acres I would plant
standard trees and would put the dwarf between the rows, probably twelve
feet apart. Mine are about ten feet apart, some of them a little more,
but I have two rows eight feet apart each way, nine in each row, which
forms a double hedge. I expect them to grow four feet high. I will prune
them just as I wish to make a beautiful double hedge between two
cottages.

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