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granate trees, were not affected by the cold this winter, and 

 never have been. Some of my neighbors, living lower down, 

 had some of their young trees cut back a few to the ground. 



Third Neither young nor old trees, on high ground, have 

 been injured ; nor have trees upwards of eight years old been 

 injured much on low ground, only the tender growth of this year 

 having been affected. 



Fourth By no manner of means. After the frost-bitten 

 leaves on the young trees shall have dropped, one will not real- 

 ize that there has been such a thing as a frost in these parts 

 this winter. By "these parts" I mean the sunny, tropical "fruit 

 belt" of Los Angeles county, or the northern part of San Gabriel 

 Valley. 



G. A. Morenheaut, Los Angeles : 



Large orange trees, even when exposed in open spaces, have 

 hardly suffered any, a few new, tender shoots at the tops of the 

 trees being all that were scorched, and those but little in certain 

 localities. This will do no harm to the trees themselves. 



The full-grown lemon trees have suffered a little in some lo- 

 calities, but hardly anything with the exception of very young 

 trees imperfectly sheltered by their leaves. 



The little lime trees, whose growth never exceeds that of a 

 bush, and which are more sensitive to frosts, have suffered se- 

 verely everywhere ; many are completely destroyed. 



Young orange trees from three to four years old have been 

 unable to withstand the frost in many localities in this county. 

 They are only from three to four feet high, an inch or an inch 

 and a half in diameter, with only a small tuft of leaves at the 

 top. [The method of pruning an orange tree so it will be such 

 a tree as is herein described, with only a small tuft of leaves at 

 the top, is pernicious in the extreme, as stated in the chapter on 

 pruning. But no kind of treatment can make them as hardy as 

 old trees. AUTHOR.] They have been so severely treated that 

 the growth of those not killed will be retarded by one or two 

 years, and if we do not have a warm rain soon, many more will 

 not recover from their injuries. 



Of all the citrus trees the limes seem to have suffered most, 

 tfeing, as I said before, much more sensitive to cold. Wherev r 



