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though I thought they would come out all right, there was scarcely a tree 

 of them but what was killed, and I would like to know when they received 

 their death. 



Mr. Rice — I want to repeat one instance where trees, coming from 

 the Dunlap stock, have come out perfectly sound. They are the Morello 

 stock, and well grafted. Not a tree nor a limb has been killed in a whole 

 orchard, but they have borne fairly this present season. I should like to 

 know the reason of that lot living, and so many of Mr. Dunlap's 

 dying. 



Mr. Shepherd — I have a lot of 150 trees, planted three years ago. 

 They had made good growth, and were planted, cared for, and protected 

 as well as they could be in any place. Three-fourths of them were killed 

 out dead. I have cherry trees thirty years of age that did not make much 

 growth this season, but they escaped death, and bore fruit. Some of 

 these trees were growing in open ground, and some in blue grass, and I 

 had cherries on all of them, more or less. I would have supposed that if 

 any cherry trees had been killed, they would have been, but they were 

 not. Our Shepherd cherries came through with fruit enough to supply 

 the birds until they were done. I got some from a graft set in a sucker, 

 springing up from an Early Richm.ond. To be sure, that might not be 

 injured. My old trees have all made sprouts, from ten to twenty inches, 

 and look very well. 



But to hear of the Morello perishing, root and branch, was a new 

 thing to me, having planted them out for accommodation to others more 

 than for use to myself, yet they are all killed. 



As to apple trees being killed in blue grass and in open ground, I 

 had none totally killed. Several put out a little germ of life, but I sup- 

 pose they will make their final exit next spring. Some of these were in 

 ground not covered by blue grass, and some on ground that was covered 

 with it continuously. My old peach trees, that stood in the blue grass, 

 were not killed — they are there yet ; and some grafted trees that I had 

 planted — may be twenty or thirty — some of them were killed on the out- 

 side, but not killed entirely. 



Mr. Nelson to Mr. Galusha — Did you not get some Early Rich- 

 mond from me, on a Morello stock, last spring ? How did they do ? 



Mr. Galusha — I understand that they are dead, but have not seen 

 them. I have Early Richmond trees of the same ages, cultivated on both 

 Morello and Mahaleb stocks, and they all came out right. The trees 

 were beautiful to behold ; on the Mahaleb stock, this year, the foliage 

 was luxuriant ; and little cherry trees, on the Morello stock, that have 



