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Continued from page 12 



trunk. With pears the d'Anjou and 

 Winter Nelis showed much more dam- 

 age than Bartletts. d'Anjous on even 

 some of the best rolling, deep, well- 

 drained soils of the state were very 

 severely damaged. Young prunes and 

 cherries showed a great deal of top 

 damage. 



The treatment of such damaged trees 

 would naturally vary according to 

 degree of injury. Where splitting 

 occurred and only a few trees were 

 affected, binding the bodies with bur- 

 lap seemed to be ethcacious. Where 

 many trees were damaged, experiments 

 were tried. One method consisted of 

 tacking the bark to the tree, especially 

 along the lines of cleavage, with heavy 

 bill-posting tacks. Very few trees so 

 treated were lost. All sprouts on the 

 trees having trunk damage should be 

 allowed to remain. Where it was pos- 

 sible to secure long scions for bridge 

 grafting, it was very easy to save such 

 trees. Where this could not be done, 

 the growing sprouts might keep the 

 roofs alive and could possibly be used 

 in some cases this spring for bridge 

 grafting. If the top dies entirely a new 

 top can be developed from the sprouts, 

 or, in some cases, it will probably be 

 wiser to replant. For pears and cherry 

 trees showing top damage, it was found 

 best early in the season to leave the 

 trees alone. Thousands of trees that 

 at pruning time looked as though they 

 were going to die, showed little or no 

 damage by the middle of ,Iune. Those 

 trees which, however, did not show in- 

 indications of a rapid recovery seem to 

 be improved by a heavy cutting back 

 of the tops. In many cases the trees 

 were found to throw out adventitious 

 shoots and develop a good healthy to]j. 

 With walnuts which were severely 

 damaged this fall the only remedy 

 would be to cut back to live tissue by 

 early spring so as to allow a proper 

 outlet for the sap. Otherwise there 

 will be an aggravation of a so-called 

 sour sap condition. 



One cannot help but feel, in conclu- 

 sion, that these troubles can to a cer- 

 tain extent be controlled by keeping 

 trees in as nearly a normal condition 

 as possible. Conditions, however, this 

 past year were so extreme that even 

 with such trees some damage could be 

 expected. 



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