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The results are decidedly in favor of the second planting, made 

 May ninth. Even the frosted lot nearly equalled the main plant- 

 ing, but the plants were so checked that the first ripe fruits wei-e 

 three weeks later than in the other lots. It will be noticed, how- 

 ever, that lot No. 2 was no earlier, so far as first fruits ai-e con- 

 cerned, than the late planting, but the first pickings were heavier 

 in lot 2. In both lots, the flowei' buds had already appeared when 

 the plants were iset, so that the first fruits were already deter- 

 mined ; in the earliest lot, these buds had been killed by frost. The 

 following is a detaOed account of the behavior of the plants to 

 frost : 



