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location and the tendency of the soil to bake just where they 

 stand. Those top-pruned and roots left intact are thriving 

 best. The Mahaleb trees are doing well. 



The Norway spruce trees show but little signs of living 

 under the treatment. Only one out of three is living, but it 

 has made a fair growth. Those with roots left on are growing 

 freely. The hemlocks fared even worse than the Norway 

 spruce. Two out of three are yet living, but have not grown 

 any, and dry weather will likely kill them. Of the Lawson 

 cypress, one is living, but has made very little growth. It 

 will probably live. Those, however, not pruned at all are 

 doing very well. Two have made no new growth. There is 

 very little difference between the two sets of California privet. 

 Both have thrown out shoots from four to eight inches long, 

 those with unpruned roots slightly in the lead. The root- 

 pruned altheas are starting slowly, but none have died or will- 

 likely die. The red cedar {Juniperus Virginiana] shows no 

 difference between the two sets. All these trees were set 

 April 16, 1892. [Entirely too late. H. M. s.] 



This season shows that the root-pruned peach trees set out 

 last year are equal in growth and size to those unpruned. 

 The apple trees are equal in size, and the root-pruned pears 

 are larger than their checks. 



Some of the trees planted last year that were taken up 

 during the fall and winter to be photographed and examined 

 were root-pruned and set out again last April. They have 

 thus far made a growth equal to and even greater than a few 

 that were not root-pruned. This shows the successful growth 

 of a two-year. old root-pruned tree. This is about the extent 

 of the evidence thus far gathered from the tests I have made. 

 As the trees acquire age, they will show, no doubt, other facts 

 that cannot be presented now, except as observed in orchards 

 in other parts of the United States, where the root-pruned 

 trees excel. 



For further evidence on this important and even revolu- 

 tionary system, I will cite some trials that point very emphati- 

 cally to the merits of this system. 



The honor of first discovering the practicability of this 



