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Mass., price list of general nursery slocl.; 

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The Fruit Garden. 



HARDY FRUIT TREES. 



The writer of a recent article on fruit 

 growing in Central Illinois, Iowa and 

 Nebraska, intimates that the climate has 

 changed there, and that to-day it is possi- 

 ble to grow peaches and apples of the 

 Ben Davis, Jonathan and Wrnesap varie- 

 ties in places there where it could not have 

 been done eight or ten years ago. 



This led me to think of a question asked 

 me by a correspondent in Western New 

 York a short time ago, which was 

 whether I thought peach trees from the 

 far south would be as well for him to 

 plant as those from near home. My 

 answer was that if the trees had been 

 budded from wood from trees which had 

 been growing there along time, I did not 

 think the trees would be as good for him. 

 I think it can not be disputed that trees 

 accustom themselves to their surround- 

 ings. I think it possible that the Illinois 

 correspondent referred to will find that 

 the well doing of his fruits to-day is not 

 due to climatic changes as much as it is 

 to the later planted trees being of a 

 hardier type. At am' rate were I living 

 in a place where a certain fruit was deemed 

 tender I would look to a point near home 

 for my supply, and not to a southern 

 point. 



Those engaged in raising seedling Eng- 

 lish walnuts and Spanish chestnuts from 

 seed know well that hardiness depends 

 a great deal on where the seeds matured. 

 Inported seeds of both these fruits give 

 seedlings slightly tender here. The termi- 

 nal bud and sometimes the youngest 

 wood will be winter killed for several 

 years in succession, but eventually they 

 get over this and are not hurt further. 

 With seeds from home trees, nothing of 

 the kind occuis. They are hardy from 

 the start, not needing any protection at 

 all. 



It is exceedingly interesting to watch 

 the behaviour of seedlings of many trees 

 raised from southern seeds. The case of 

 the sweet gum, Liquidambar strracitiua, 

 occurs to me. There came under my ob- 

 servation a bed of seedlings raised from 

 seeds gathered near Savannah, Georgia, 

 and another bed, close to it, from Phila- 

 delphia seed, the tree being native here. 

 Towards fall the bed of home plants 

 ripened up nicely, the leaves falling off 

 just before freezing weather came. Not so, 

 however, with the southern ones. The 

 freezing weather found them with twigs 

 as fresh and succulent as the others had 

 been two months before. Evidently the 

 plants, so to speak, fancied themselves 

 still in the south, wherethere was no need 

 to hurry themselves for fear of frost. As 

 may be surmised, they were badly winter 

 killed, and so they were for several years 

 in succession. Little by little they 

 acquired northern way's, finished their 

 growth earlier, and escaped injury event- 

 ually. 



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