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THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



planted five or six years since, in rows, quarter of a mile long, 

 and extending from near the top of a high ridge down a pretty- 

 abrupt southern slope, not only to the base of the ridge, but 

 across a gently inclined flat or bottom. . . . The judge, being 

 an Eastern man, had very naturally secured a large number 

 of Baldwins, Greenings, Spitzenbergs, Roxbury Russets, &c., 

 perhaps most of which were planted on the low ground. 

 Here they struggled up to last winter, mostly living, but not 

 doing as well as the same sorts on the slope. Thus standing, 

 that trial winter came, and completely finished up and wiped 

 out nearly every tree that was left of those tender sorts, mak- 

 ing sad inroads upon the appearance and profitableness of the 

 orchard. Trees of the tender kinds, up the slope, were not 

 indeed all killed outright, and should our seasons prove favor- 

 able for a term of years, they may possibly bring some fruit 

 yet, but it would seem impossible for them to become perma- 

 nently vigorous. Scarce a variety that we noticed, not even 

 the hardiest, had done as well on the low as on the high 

 ground. Of several tender or half hardy sorts, on the slope, 

 where a part were root-grafted aiid a part budded on seed- 

 lings, IN EVERY CASE that wc uoticcd, the latter were the 

 MOST HARDY AND VIGOROUS." Tliis is the tcstimouy of Judge 

 Greene, as given in the loioa Farmer. 



We now add that of Mr. T. T. Lyon, of Plymouth, Mich- 

 igan, as given in the Michigan Farmer for November: — 



" It has long been urged by fruit growers upon the rich 

 and bleak prairies that root-grafted trees are less hardy than 

 seedlings ; but never till the present season, have we, in this 

 region, witnessed ocular proof to that effect. From the result 

 of the present year's experience, it is also clear that some va- 

 rieties are less hardy than others, for while root-grafted trees 

 of some varieties have suffered severely, top-grafted trees of 

 these varieties have escaped entirely. 



" On young trees the injury is produced at, or immediately 

 above, the surface of the ground, where a spot of dead bark 

 appears, extending partially, and sometimes wholly, around 

 the tree ; while on older trees the result is often manifested 

 in a general debility, or in the death of a part or the whole of 



