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["Doreen Howard" <doreenh@ticon.net>]

Del Stubbs wrote:
 The trees on steep
> hillsides especially are a concern to me to keep them small and low to the
> ground. Could you elaborate on "fruiting stratagy to control tree volume"

Ed Fackler told me about Gene Yale in Skokie, IL and his miniature apple
trees.  He has 165 on a lot that measures 43 by 55 feet.  I went to see him
and the trees and came away with a deep appreciation for the method of
pruning Gene has devised.  You can find it at this URL:
http://www.enteract.com/~midfex/yale/intro.html
Click through the site to find the section on Culture, which details the
pruning.  Gene's trees are on M111 and M27, but I suspect that an apple on
any rootstock can be miniaturized using Yale's method.
Doreen Howard