GENERAL SUMIMAHY. 



Summing up the results we find that of the nitratt's the Nitrate of 

 potash has given the best results, but that the Sulphate of ammonia 

 gives better results than either, especially in the production of a 

 foliage crop. 



Of the potash salts the sulphates give better results than the 

 muriate. 



Bone black shows a marked effect in increasing the number of 

 blossoms. 



IN.TITRY TO TFIE PEACH BUDS. 



In New England the great question to be solved in the cultivation 

 of the peach is the protection of the buds from injury from the cold 

 during the winter. 



To learn when the buds were destroyed, observations of their con- 

 dition were made every week from Dec. 1st, 1889, to March 13, 1890, 

 and at each observation 500 buds were cut open and examined. On 

 Dec. 21st the first buds were found injured. On Dec. 28th, 6% had 

 been destroyed. Erom this time up to Jan. 22nd, no larger percent, 

 was found to be injured, the lowest temperature up to this time being 

 11° above 0°. On the 23rd of Jan. the temperature dropped to 8° 

 above 0°, and Jan. 2oth to 7° above 0°, but the evidence of injury 

 did not show itself until Eeb. 1st, when 14 9^ were found injured. 

 This state of injury remained until March 27, when 52'/:^ were found 

 destroyed. Then on March 7th the temperature dropped to 6° below 

 0° and held nearly at 0° the following night, after which about 80% 

 of the buds were found to be injured. This was the average of all 

 the varieties examined, but some were more injured than others, and 

 at the time of blossoming the average remained about the same. 



The following table may be of interest as showing the amount of 

 blossoms that opened on each variety : 



