ORCHARD NOTES. 



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I account for the poor yield in apples the past season from the 

 loss of so many leaves by the. blight, which caused so poor circula- 

 tion of sap. Most all the sprouts wilted that usually grow on a 

 healthy tree, so that, as a rule, scarcely any fruit buds ripened for 

 1906. 



My paper last year on top-working brought to me several letters 

 showing some valuable experiments in top-working. I will give 







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Mr. Keniiey behind a branch of Wealthy. Many such in his orchard this season. 



you extracts. John Bisbee, of Madelia, Minn., said he had grown 

 the Baldwin apple on the Hibernal the past two years ; that he 

 had used the Virginia crab, but liked the Hibernal best. I visited 

 last June the large orchard of F. W. Kimball, of Austin, Minn. 

 I had previously learned that he had by top-working grown Grimes' 

 Golden and Jonathan. Last spring I procured scions of these two 

 valuable varieties and set them onto Hibernal. The grafts did 

 well the past summer. From a letter from Mr. Kimball, dated 



