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be from the question, there is always a great doubt as to whether they will 

 recover. I rather take the chances on young trees. If Mr. Hale does not 

 agree with that, I would like to hear his opinion. 



Mr. Hale: My opinion is that you gave a most excellent opinion, a good 

 answer. The only thought that came to me was, these trees that had sprouted 

 away down to the ground, if they were perfectly healthy bodied, were lower 

 down than we would start in any other way; and if the body which they 

 sprouted from was absolutely sound and whole, and they were all right, 

 I would leave some of them for a few low-headed trees or bushes, as we have 

 got to have in our apple orchards in the future. We are going to eliminate 

 the trunks of apple trees anyway when we get on to our job; and if nature 

 has made a start, I think I would try a few of those trees that way. 



Mr. Simmons : Five years ago this last fall I had a tract of about 28^ acres 

 I wished to set to apples. I could only get one-half of it ready, and I set 

 that half in the fall, and I had splendid success with the trees. Next summer 

 they all lived and made a splendid growth. Next fall I said, "I will set 

 the remainder of the apples in that orchard and have the work out of the 

 way before spring." So I set those trees, banked them up 16 or 18 inches 

 all the way round. We had quite a hard winter that winter, and it killed 

 almost all those trees right down to the bank; they sprouted up next summer. 

 Of course I let them alone next spring;! didn't do anything to them. They 

 sprouted up all of them nearly after taking the banking away, but they 

 didn't look good to me. That fall I took them all up, reploughed the ground 

 (I left a few), and next spring I reset that orchard, the half that didn't live. 

 Every one of those few trees which I left are black-hearted that died from 

 the freeze. It is not safe, in my opinion, to leave any trees that have been 

 killed, up to one or two years of age, with the expectation of getting anything 

 of anv value out of them. 



BORDEAUX INJURY OF THE APPLE. 



(prof. U. p. HEDRICK, geneva, new YORK.) 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is indeed a pleasure to meet 

 with the Michigan State Horticultural Society again, for it has been three 

 years since I last saw the members of this society in session. I have been 

 out of the State for that time, but have not lost track of the horticultural 

 industry in Michigan. 



I have heard with great pleasure some of the successes and many regrets 

 of the great disaster last year in your peach region. I only trust you are 

 still of good heart, and the losses caused by the great freeze will in time be 

 repaired. 



In leaving New York a few days ago I saw the president of the Western 

 New York Horticultural Society, Mr. Berrj^, and he wished me to bring to 

 this society from the Western New York Society the heartiest greetings, 

 and this I do with great pleasure. 



I am sure you will all be glad to know that fruit growlers in New York 

 have had a splendid season, that the apple crop has been an enormous one, 

 that the prices have been the very best, and that in all respects the fruit 

 growers of New York are in good spirits. It was my pleasure to attend a 



