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]\Ir. Gold: At Cornwall, where we are up 1.200 feet or 1,400 

 feet and have plenty of wind, as near as I can see, all the peach 

 buds are killed. 



Mr. Barnes: I think there is such a thing as getting too 

 high. If I were locating a i)each orchard, I think I would 

 look to see how high it was and also to see how it was sur- 

 rounded. 



Mr. Warner. North Haven : 60 per cent, of the buds were 

 killed on a level with my house : 500 feet above, the buds were 

 all right. 



Mr. Harrison of ]\.Iaryland : I have heard so much about 

 Connecticut orchards I will say a word about Maryland. The 

 buds, I understand, in the western part of the State are alive 

 1,400 feet above the sea level, but lower they are mostly killed. 

 This is in the western part of the State of Maryland near 

 Cumberland. We think that buds of trees on the hills are 

 pretty hard to kill. 



Mr. Root. Farmington : In an orchard at Farmington about 

 500 feet above the sea level most of the buds are killed. They 

 are right along on the crest of a mountain, and there probably 

 30 per cent, are alive. On the lower side the crops are all right. 



Mr. Jackson, Wilton: Mr. Chairman, I would like to say 

 that in my orchard, in the western part of the State, I can 

 find hardly a live bud. 



A Member : I have four peach orchards. Running up to 75 

 or 100 feet, the trees are all killed; 100 to 125 the trees, buds 

 and all, are killed; 175 to 200, the buds are killed but the trees 

 pretty well alive; at 250 to 300 the trees are alive, and a good 

 crop of buds. 



A Member : Our orchard ranges from 350 to 380 feet. I 

 doubt if the elevation makes a very great difference in the 

 condition of the buds. There are about 35 per cent, of the 

 Elbertas alive. 



Mr. George Hale : I would like to ask if there are any others 

 besides J. H. and G. H. Hale who have lost trees by the cold? 



A Member : I have found a number of trees dead or nearly 

 so, but I think by a thorough pruning most of them can be 

 saved. 



The discussion was then drawn to a close, and at five o'clock, 

 after one of the most interesting sessions on record, the Society 

 adjourned until 7.30. 



