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off, it will fall off in a mathematical ratio. If I understand that in 

 a tree there is a power to develop so man}- bl^d8, then it is a mathe- 

 matical rule, so that if the stock is strong enough you will have one, 

 two, or three growths in a year. Then you have double the number 

 of branches that are in the bud ; so that as I understand it that small 

 bud can not overtake the other until the age has been sufficient to 

 reduce mathematically the number of buds. 



Dr. Hull — Mr. Barry has stated also that this terminal bud should 

 not be selected for this region north, but at Alton, in the south, I 

 would give you twice as much for it as for any other. The further you 

 go south the longer the season, and the less the liability to preventing 

 them perfecting their growth. ISTow, at Mr. Earle's orchard, which I 

 have seen all through, when these buds have developed into branches 

 there can be no further growth. Having performed their office they 

 shed, and then these germ-branches are burst, and we get the two 

 seasons in one. That is the trouble with the Sweet Cherry. 1 told 

 you that I would explain why it was that Sweet Cherries might be 

 grown in all parts of the State. More especially I have paid atten- 

 tion to this matter within the last year. There should be no second 

 growth allowed. It should be kept growing at so late a period that 

 the frost should overtake it. In that condition the tree is capable of 

 resisting the greatest exposure of which it is possible. In September 

 last the growth was still active. What is the result of this? That 

 these crude juices will not elaboi-ate. The frost expands them and 

 sepai-ates the bark from the tree. That is what we have been 

 troubled with at Alton. My first plantation, with the exception of 

 one or two trees, have gone to Davy Jones' locker. Why was it ? 

 Because I planted them as trees are ordinarily planted. I planted 

 them as I did at the East, and in the course of two or three years 

 they began to rupture, and I had the mortification to see them either 

 badly crooked or spoiled. When I made preparations for another 

 lot, I prepared my ground three or four feet deep. I wanted it so 

 that there should be no second growth, and mine is the only orchard 



