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bud is not opened, it may require a longitudinal 

 cut of the knife to determine the exact condition, 

 but last winter an ordinary pinch of the swollen bud 



Fig. 5:5. Showing, respectively, swollen buds of apricot, peach, Japan plum, 

 and pear, all of which were uninjured by 14 of frost. 



was enough to demonstrate that all was blasted and 

 worthless within." 



Injuries to the swelling buds. A great amount of 

 mischief is done by "cold snaps" after the buds have 

 begun to swell, and yet the disaster is not so easily 

 wrought, at least not in the north, as is commonly 

 supposed. Even the buds of the tenderer fruits ma3 r 

 endure very sharp freezes after they have begun to 



