THE OUTLOOK FOR GROWING 



them we might add thousands of orchards 

 which are scattered all over the Northern and 

 Eastern States, from Michigan to Maine and 

 from Maine to north Georgia. 



It is doubtful, however, if these scattered 

 plantings have made good the older trees which 

 have died out. Scarcely a season passes that 

 hundreds of these old veteran trees are not 

 blown down or badly broken. Every wind takes 

 its toll. After one of these windstorms in 

 Southern New York the writer estimated that 

 at least twenty per cent, of all the standing 

 old apple trees had been destroyed or badly 

 broken. In the commercial regions only a 

 small part of the new plantings have yet come 

 to bearing and even here these probably do 

 not much more than make good the losses of 

 old trees. So that on the whole, heavy as 

 our plantings have been, it is extremely doubt- 

 ful if they have very much more than made 

 good the losses of the older trees throughout 

 the country. It is a fact worthy of note that 

 this talk of over-planting the apple has been 

 going on for over thirty years, and while the 

 timid ones talked those who had faith in the 

 business and the courage of their convictions 

 planted apples and reaped golden harvests 



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