The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, May 4, 1961, page 53 (of 56)

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Dwarf Trees

Continued from page 31 the seed in South America. It was spotted in a back yard in Muscatine, Iowa, by an amateur tree enthusiast, H. Walton Clark, for whom the Clark System of dwarfing apples has been named. Clark turned his find over to Prof. Tom Maney of Iowa State University, who perfected the grafting technique. Some ten million apple trees are now growing, held down to man-size by dwarfing four- to five-inch stem pieces stripped from the progeny of that one original plant. With dwarfed apple trees a commercial success, creating miniatures of peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, and cherry trees became even more of a challenge. Nobody could find a magic "dwarfing sandwich," and Nature seemed reluctant to contribute dwarfing rootstocks in these fruits. So the tree architects had to resort to horticultural trickery. They tried grafting pear scions onto dwarfing rootstocks of such a distant cousin as quince. Nearly all of these strange marriages were astonishingly successful. The pear scions thrived particularly well on quince rootstock, and instead of shooting skyward, as pears do normally, the limbs remained stunted but bore normal-size fruit. Soon tree propagators were growing dwarf pears on quince roots by the thousands. Unfortunately, one old favorite, the Bartlett, refused to make a union with the quince rootstock. But nurserymen now get around this barrier by grafting in a bridge of Hardy or Old Home pear, which is compatible with quince, and then grafting the Bartlett scion on top of that. The fruits with pits were still more difficult to dwarf. It was Professor Karl D. Brase at the Cornell Agricultural Station, Geneva, N. Y., who built the first successful dwarf peaches. Some years back, Professor Brase hit on the idea of grafting both peach and plum scions on the rootstocks of the western sand cherry, a misnamed hardy native plum from the midwestern states. These grew into sturdy dwarfs that bore excellent peaches and plums. But the rampant sand-cherry roots kept sending up suckers all around the tree trunks in an apparent struggle to get back into Continued Suburbia Today, May 1961

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