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Department that all his Ben Davis, Baldwin, Early Harvest and Sweet 

 Apples, some of them trees twenty years of age, have been killed. 

 ISTorthern Spies proved more hardy and are alive, though their fruit is 

 killed. 



Apparent relief in a small way comes to lovers of peaches from a 

 few sections, one in northern Pennsylvania and in the Niagara region of 

 JSTew York, where the thermometer registered only about ten degrees 

 below zero, and where it is believed that peach buds have not been greatly 

 injured, but unfortunately these sections do not contain any great number 

 of peach trees, though around Niagara there are a good many plums, 

 cherries and pears. — From Fruit Trade Journal. 



PEACH TREES. 



Regarding the best treatment of autumn budded peach trees that 

 have had their wood frozen half way to the ground by the severe winter, 

 I would follow the plan last suggested of cutting away the injured wood 

 now, and then treating the trees in the ordinary manner, by cutting back 

 to within one or two inches of the bud as soon as growth begins. I would, 

 however, prefer not to transplant the trees until they shall have made one 

 season's growth where they now stand. It is a fact amply demonstrated 

 that to leave injured wood on a tree will weaken the growth of the unin- 

 jured parts. If the injured wood is cut away before growth begins, 

 however, the remaining parts will make vigorous growth, since the root 

 system retains its normal vigor and has a reduced top to supply with sap. 

 A vigorous root system will also stimulate growth in a part of the injured 

 wood if it is not actually dead. If the injured wood is left on^ the 

 energy of the root system will be spread over too large an area, in at- 

 tempting to revivify the whole weakened top and consequently all parts 

 of the tree will suffer. I think a great many are exaggerating the injury 

 done our peach trees during the past winter. Some are even grubbing 

 out trees that might be saved. If properly cut back, most of the peach 

 trees of the state may not only be saved, but will be all the better in two 

 years for the renewal process that will result from the severe winter 

 pruning. Peach trees that are injured and have not been pruned should 



