SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 47/ 



This motion was duly seconded and upon vote was. 

 declared passed. 



President Putnam : I think we must now take up the 

 regular program of the afternoon, and it gives me much 

 pleasure to introduce to you the first speaker, Prof. U. P. 

 Hedrick, of the New York State Experiment Station, who 

 will speak to us on the subject of "Hardiness in the Peach."" 



Prof. Hedrick : Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen — 

 It afifords me great pleasure to meet with you to-day and to 

 bring you greetings from New York State. We are larger, 

 but you are the older. Many of our fruit growers are descend- 

 ants of the good people of Connecticut and come from your 

 State; many of our varieties of fruit came from Connecticut 

 and we, as a younger society, have much to learn from you. 

 The Horticulturists of New York have had an exceptionally 

 good year. While the crops were not as large, the returns 

 have been good, and in Western New York the prices have 

 been exceptionally good and the money is already in the 

 pockets of the growers, for which at this time they are sin- 

 cerely thankful. 



I want to give you the report and result of investigations 

 I have been making during the past few years of the Hardi- 

 ness of the Peach. I take it your conditions here are similar 

 to those in New York and Michigan. 



Hardiness of the Peach. 



By Prof. U. P. Hedrick, Horticulturist, N. Y. State Experi- 

 ment Station, Geneva. 

 The chief hindrances to peach growing in North America 

 are winter freezes and spring frosts. No part of the conti- 

 nent where peaches are grown, excepting favored portions of 

 California, is free from the danger of a freeze that will kill 

 the trees, or a spring frost that will destroy the blossoms. 

 The losses suffered during the winter and spring just passed 

 threaten the existence of the peach industry in many parts of 

 the United States and Canada. Tf these hindrances are tav 



