58 THE COXXECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Reports from Growers on the Condition of the Peach 



Buds. 



Mr. J. N. Barnes, Wallingford : I suppose we are doing 

 pretty well. I have been feeling pretty good over the pros- 

 pects. We have from 30 to 50 per cent, live buds. In all the 

 Wallingford orchards the owners are feeling pretty good. 



President Gulley : I wish you would tell, if you know, the 

 elevations of your orchards. I believe that is one of the most 

 important questions. I believe the orchard that stands on an 

 elevation of five or six hundred feet is the best protected 

 orchard. In my own orchard, the young man and myself are 

 watching this point. One part of our orchard stands 350 feet 

 at the highest point. There, a large part of the buds are killed, 

 but not in the proportion I found in other places. There is 

 a good slope in every direction. We know just exactly where 

 we stand. I wish these growers would give us the elevations 

 of their orchards. 



Mr. Hinman, Oxford : If elevation is the most important 

 point, we are going to do but little. Living where I do, in the 

 Naugatuck Valley, we have less summer than people living 

 above us but still in the Valley. The Valley is 300 feet where 

 I am, and a valle}- between hills 300 feet between tide water is 

 vastly worse off than land at tide water, so that the elevation 

 itself does not amount to much. 



President Gulley : That is right ; but I would like the 

 elevation from the actual sea level. 



Mr. Hale, South Glastonbury : In my own orchard, on the 

 level of my house, which stands from 75 to 125 feet in elevation, 

 not only the buds are killed but practically all the trees are 

 killed to the snow line. At the elevation of 125 feet to 200 feet 

 the buds are all killed and the wood is slightly injured. At 

 the next elevation of about 250 to 300 feet there are a few live 

 buds and no injury to the wood. And at a still higher eleva- 

 tion of 420 to 450 feet we have buds enough to raise a full crop. 

 All this is within half a mile. It is a steady climb. At Seymour, 

 700 feet above the Sound, there are practically buds enough 

 for a full crop, and they will be thick on some varieties. I 

 should say there are from 30 to 50 per cent, live buds, but if 

 there are 10 per cent, alive, it means a full crop, but this eleva- 



