人们对矮化果树的兴趣可追溯到中世纪,在那时,果树本身的观尝价值与其产生果实的价值一样珍贵。本世纪初,果树学家认识到栽植树体矮小果树的一些优点。为了控制树体大小,早期采用的方法是把遗传上乔化的品种嫁接在矮化砧上。在最近30年内,这种方法已在世界若干果树栽培区用矮化树代替乔化对的苹果园和梨园中得到了广泛应用。关于栽植弱生长势果树所得到的好处已在1981年作了评述。 The interest in dwarfing fruit trees dates back to the Middle Ages, when the fruit tree itself was as valuable as the fruit it produced. At the beginning of this century, fruit tree scientists recognized some of the advantages of planting tree short fruit trees. In order to control the size of the tree, the early approach was to graft genetically elegant cultivars on dwarfing anvils. In the last 30 years, this method has been widely used in apple orchards and pear orchards where dwarfing trees have been replaced by dwarf trees in several fruit-growing areas of the world. The benefits of planting weakly growing fruit trees have been reviewed in 1981.