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Q: Where do j'ou get your trees? 



Mr. Morrill: Generally I raise them myself, and now I am buying of 

 the West Michigan nursery, because they are right by me. For the 

 most of mj' orchard I haye grown my own trees. Something was spoken of 

 today in regard to bud yariation that made me wish to say something, and 

 T guess I did s]ieak of it. I selected my trees just as Prof. Waite says 

 he would, take the chances that way anywaj^, of selecting the best, whether 

 there is anything in the theory- or not. You will always find certain 

 specimens of a kind doing better than others. I do not know whether 

 there is anything in it or not, but there certainly is not anything against 

 it. 



Q: Where do you get your pits? 



Mr. Mori'ill: We haye to get pits down in Tennessee and North Caro- 

 lina, to get pits that A\e think are all riiilit. 



Q: Why? 



Mr. ^lorrill: We know there is no disease there. Thej grow a strong 

 stock. They are all right. There is an element of danger in all our 

 northern pits, I think. 



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WHERE PEACHES CAN BE GROWN. 



Q: Do you think we could raise a good peach orchard in this section 

 of the state? 



Mr. Morrill: I am sure I do not know, sir; 1 don't know what your 

 eleyations are, nor what your temperatures, but I should latlier think 

 it was against you, except, perhaps, in fayored locations. 



Q: This is right on the water-shed of the lower peninsula, w^e are 

 eleyated here, it is lower on either side of us. 



Mr. Morrill: Well, does it shed water? 



Q: Yes, the water shtds here to both lakes, Huron and Michigan. 



Mr. Morrill: It is safe to sa}^ that jon can grow^ peaches anj^where in 

 Michigan that you have good atmospheric drainage, where your tempera- 

 ture does not go more than fifteen degrees below zero. At the same time, 

 some yarieties under certain conditions, that we are now growing in 

 Michigan, haye been known to st.and as low a temperature as twenty- 

 four degrees below^ zero and still produce fruit. Lewis has done that, and 

 Gold Drop has done so at as low as twenty-two. 



Q: How is Crosby under low temperature? 



Mr. Morrill: I haye seen it tested but once, a year ago this winter, 

 eighteen below zero, buds in fair condition. It was })lanted alongside 

 of Fitzgerald and Lewis, which I consider two yery hardy yarieties. I 

 cut two hundred buds, selected perhaps from a half dozen trees each. 

 Crosby showed 27 dead buds, Lewis 14, and Fitzgerald 3; and Fitzgerald 

 is a far better peach than Crosby when you get it. 



Q: I would like to ask Mr. Morrill if he has the Garfield ])each? 



Mr. Morrill: I haye not. I haye seen it. It is known as IJrigdon also. 

 It is a New York peach and is of the Crawford type. I know little about 

 its peculiarities. 



MORE THAN ONE SORT OF FRUIT AT A TIME. 



Mr. Allen: This yicinity seems to be well adapted to cultiyation of the 

 Northern Sj)y apple; that is, it seems to succeed here. Of course, peaches 



