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Old 16-11-2007, 01:34 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Charlie Pridham writes:
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| It very much depends on the rootstock used and its only the more modern
| trees where the use of dwarfing stock like "pixie" has made the trees
| smaller, in the orchard on the farm where I grew up they were huge as
| were the apple trees (but then again I last was there age 3 and most
| things are huge at that age!)

All of the ones I was thinking of were on their own roots - probably
semi-dwarf varieties, given what you say.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.