RENEWING TOP-KILLED TREES IN NURSERY AND ORCHARD. 337 



RENEWING TOP-KILLED TREES IN NURSERY AND 

 ORCHARD. 



B. E. ST. JOHN, FAIRMONT. 



This subject is one that I am afraid that I have not had enough 

 experience in to make my remarks interesting- to you. 



When I first came to Minnesota, some thirty-five years ago, it 

 was the general opinion that we could not raise apples in Minnesota 

 on account of the severe winters. After being here a few years, 

 we started our first orchard of lOO trees. A few of these proved to 

 be Duchess and are yet alive and doing well ; a few were Tran- 

 scendents and Hyslops, and these lived to bear good crops of crabs, 

 then blighted and continued doing so until they finally died; the 



Residence of B. E. St. John. A Malinda apple tree in the foreground. 



balance of the trees proved to be too tender for this climate. We 

 renewed this orchard by replacing the dead trees with Wealthy, 

 Patten's Greening, etc. 



In starting our next and present orchard, we knew better what 

 kinds to plant, and where trees proved true to name we have had 

 good success. Our experience has been that (with the exception of 

 blight) we have never had a tree in the orchard top-killed without 

 first being root-killed ; sometimes in the nursery we have a few 



