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that there was half a million bushels (?) of apples that were thrown 

 away, and another half million that were injured. This year, in the 

 city of Eochester, I am sure I saw acres of apple barrels that were 

 shipped by canal during that cold weather. They were piled up 

 there — thousands and thousands of barrels, and it was supposed they 

 were injured; but I found afterwards that they were not. 



Mr. Humphreys — I would like to ask if the apple tree would be as 

 long lived as the old orchards, or will they die out twenty-five or 

 ■thirty years hence ? 



Mr. Barry — I do not see why they should be any shorter lived than 

 old trees. Probably in new soils they might live longer. 



Mr. Humphreys — I ask it in reference to orchards in the "West. I 

 find that trees die within twenty-five or twenty-six years. I speak 

 of the city of Henry, or within five or six miles thereof. The trees 

 grow thriftily until they are five or six years of age, on Sandy river, 

 emptying into the Illinois river, five or six miles from Henry. 



Mr. M. L. Dunlap — The geologists told us, last year, not to plant 

 there. 



Dr. Hull — There are abundant reasons why they should not live. 

 I do not know as to the gentleman's locality, but there is no cause 

 operating there that would not have operated one hundred or one 

 thousand years ago, or twenty years ago. Its manner of growth is 

 such that we can readily see why this is. We are subject to great 

 extremes of cold and heat, and moisture. Now, in the Alton district, 

 a few years ago, our trees were subjected to a temperature twenty- 

 seven degrees below zero (?), and they did not suffer at all. The 

 next autumn was moist and warm, and all our trees took on a second 

 growth ; and while that growth was immature, a frost occurred and 

 lifted the bark just at the trunk, and our trees died. There was a 

 •cause and an effect. It is just so in regard to these other causes. 



We were disposed to throw over the Yellow Bellefleur, as it 

 scabbed; then we went into Winter Pearmain, and were disposed to 

 4o the same with that; and so it is to the end of the chapter. There 

 is no deterioration. It seems to me that is illustrated in the Duchesa 



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