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Drop, Triumph and Lewis, by a temperature of-14 F. on January 

 29. During the winter of 1904-05 nearly all the buds were killed, 

 yet practically all trees had a few left alive and Triumph and Lewis 

 a fair crop, following a temperature of -25 F. on February 13th. 

 The following table gives the percentage of buds killed for a number 

 of varieties during the season of 1905-06 and the seasons following 

 up to 1911-12 when all were killed by a temperature of -20 F. Dur- 

 ing 1912-13 there was no severely cold weather and practically none 

 of the buds were killed. 



Table 39. Showing the Percentage of Buds Killed on the 

 Years 1906 to 1911 Inclusive. 



February 5, 1906. Temperature -3 F. 



Variety 



Lewis 



Chinese Cling 



Smock 



Early Michigan. . 

 Poole's Favorite. . 



Sneed 



Carman 



Gold Drop 



Snow 



General Lee 



Hills Chili 



Salway 



Early Tillotson. . . 

 Krummel October 



Alexander 



Ortiz 



Triumph 



Rareripe 



Crosby 



Family Favorite. . 



Captain Ede 



Crawford's Early. 



Bokhara 



Briggs' Red 



Elberta 



Oldmixon Cling. . 



Thurbcr 



Henrietta 



(jlovc 



Oldmixon Free. . . 



Fitzgerald 



Kalamazoo 



Heath Cling 



Chainjiion 



Early Bernard. . . . 



Shipley Red 



Yellow St. John.. 

 Crawford's Late. . 

 Susciuchanna. ... 



