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mistakes, leads to disease, decay and death. In this coun- 

 try of scorching suns and drying winds prune sparingly but 

 judiciously. 



LATE FROSTS. 



Henry McAlister, Jr., says on this subject : " It may 

 not be generally known that there are varieties of apples 

 whose blossoms are not in the least injured by frost, or even 

 by hard freezing. In Colorado, where we so frequently have 

 late frosts, it is essential that we should select such kinds of 

 apples as are not injured thereby. Having learned that June 

 frosts are of common occurrence in the northern part of 

 New England, I recently wrote to a gentleman living near 

 Montpelier, Vermont, who is much interested in fruit grow- 

 ing, for his experience upon this subject. In his answer he 

 says, ' I have long since discarded all varieties of apples that 

 are injured by late frosts. I find that if the blossoms of the 

 Fameuse, Wealthy, Tetofski, Yellow Transparent, and a few 

 other varieties, be frozen stiff on the trees, it does not in the 

 least degree lessen their crop of apples or injure the fruit in 

 any way.' A friend sends me a late number of the Vermont 

 Watchman and State Journal which contains a letter from 

 a lady living in Milan, New Hampshire, complaining of the 

 difficulty of raising apples on account of June frosts, which 

 are frequent and severe in that locality, and kills the bloom 

 and causes the apples to fall off. She wishes to know if 

 there are any kinds that are not injured by such freezing. 

 The editor, an experienced horticulturist, answers as follows : 

 'There are ; and last June gave us as severe a test as is ever 

 likely to occur. But of more than one hundred varieties 

 that blossomed last spring the following sorts seemed en- 

 tirely unaffected, and produced nine-tenths of all the apples 

 we had of summer fruit, Tetofski and Yellow Transparent ; 

 of fall apples, Peach Apple, Duchess of Oldenburg and 

 Pringle Sweet ; of winter apples, Fameuse, Wealthy, and 

 Scott's Winter.' " 



