DWARF FRUIT TREES

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	LANDSCAPE GARDENING PLUMS AND PLUM CULTURE FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY

DWARF CHERRY TREE

Two years planted

Copyright, 1906
BY ORANGE JUDD COMPANY

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PREFACE

The commercial interests have so continuously andcompletely held the horticultural stage in America duringthe last two decades that it has been impossiblefor amateur horticulture to get in a word edgewise.Any public speaker or writer has had to talk aboutseveral acres at a time or he would not be listened to.He has been obliged to insist that his scheme wouldpay on a commercial scale before anyone would hear,much less consider, what he had to tell.

But now a change is coming. Different conditionsare already upon us. A thousand signs indicate thenew era. With hundreds—yes thousands—of menand women now horticulture is an avocation, a pastime.They grow trees largely for the pleasure of it;and their gardens are built amidst surroundings whichwould make commercial pomology laugh at itself.

And so I undertake to offer the first American fruitbook in a quarter century which can boldly declareits independence of the professional element in fruitgrowing. I am confident that dwarf fruit trees havesome commercial possibilities, but they are of fargreater importance to the small householder, the ownerof the private "estate," the village dweller, the suburbanite[Pg viii]and the commuter.

In other words, while I hope that all good peoplewill be interested in dwarf fruit trees and that someof them will share the enthusiasm of which this bookis begotten, I do not want anyone to think that Ihave issued any guaranty, expressed or implied, thatdwarf trees will open a paying commercial enterprise.Because the argument that a thing pays has been solong the only recommendation offered for any horticulturalscheme, many persons have formed the habitof assuming that every sort of praise stands on thisone foundation.

F. A. Waugh.

Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1906.

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