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the cut end with grafting wax or paint; and then to select the best 

 sprout for a tree and recut the projecting stub close to it to make the 

 least possible bend in the resulting trunk. It was advised to cut out 

 all loose or injured bark of trees having as much as a third of the 

 circumference of intact bark and to paint the exposed wood to prevent 

 the entrance of water and decay. 



On August 4 the orchard had a different appearance. It seemed 

 as though it were a most excellent orchard of Ben Davis with a few 

 scrubby Baldwin trees and sprouts scattered through it. Figure A 

 on Plate XIII is taken down a diagonal row of Baldwins or where 

 they should have been, and to the right and left the Ben Davis rows 

 are seen to look thrifty. In the foreground is a Baldwin sprout, 

 and farther down the row are two Baldwin trees with splashes of 

 white paint covering some exposed wood on the south side. The 

 injured Baldwin trees grew but little and their foliage was rather 

 sparse. A closer view of an injured one is shown in figure C on 

 Plate XII, which was taken on the above date. Figure B of the same 

 plate shows another one which had given rise to a thrifty sprout, 

 apparently due to the poor water conduction of the injured trunk. 

 Most of the sprouts on the stumps had made a good growth, but a 

 strong wind storm a few days before had broken off many of them. 

 The appearance of the sprouts and the manner of cutting off the tree 

 are shown in figure A of Plate XII. 



At the time of the first visit to the above orchard on May 18, two 

 other orchards near it were also examined for winter-injury. One of 

 them, consisting of rather scattered trees which had been set 6 to 10 

 years, was just south of the above orchard and consists of various 

 varieties. On a knoll a 10-year-old tree had small patches of loose 

 bark on the south and north sides of the crown at the surface of the 

 ground. The loose patch on the north had a cleft about 7 cm. long 

 and was alive except at the cleft edges. By cutting out the loose 

 bark it was seen that regeneration had occurred on its inner side near 

 the cleft and that farther from the cleft were very numerous glistening 

 points which corresponded with similar points on the wood surface. 

 It appeared as though further growth might have turned out the 

 edges of the bark at the cleft as it did on the maple trees discussed 

 above and shown on Plates XX and XXIII. On the south side of 

 the tree the cleft was only about 4 cm. long and the bark was lying 

 rather firmly against the wood. It was not removed to determine 

 the extent of loosening because it appeared as though it would be 

 better for the tree to leave it. It seemed likely that in this case 

 further growth would go on as it did on the one shown on Plate XII 

 of the above cited paper on crown-rot. 



The other orchard referred to above is about a half a mile farther 

 south, set four years and in an exposed situation. The grower said 

 that two years before a few of the trees had died in mid- and late- 

 summer, and on examination were found to have wide girdles of 



