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Variety 



Buds 

 Number 

 Counted 



Buds 



Percentag 



Killed 



December 9 and 29, 1909. Temperature -5° F. and -8° F. 



Chinese Cling. . . 

 Family Favorite 



Triumph 



Hiley 



Sneed 



Briggs' Red 



Early Michigan. 

 General Lee .... 



Salway 



Oldmixon Free. . 



Alton 



Rice's Seedling. . 

 Oldmixon Cling. 



Crosby 



Elberta 



Ortiz 



Fitzgerald 



Heath Cling 



Champion 



Crawford's Late 



Bokhara 



Early Bernard . . 

 Kalamazoo 



2.6 

 3.0 

 7.4 

 11.3 

 12.9 

 13.0 

 14.2 

 14.6 

 14.9 

 1S.S 

 16.4 

 17.0 

 21.0 

 22.9 

 24.0 

 27.0 

 31.0 

 31.2 

 33.3 

 44.5 

 51.3 

 52.0 

 52.6 



January 3, 1911. Temperature -8° F. 



Triumph 



Salway 



Henrietta 



Krummel October 



Crosby 



Carman 



Heath Cling 



Captain Ede 



Early Bernard 



Sneed 



Kalamazoo 



Fitzgerald 



It will be seen that on January 12, 1909, practically all the buds 

 were killed except on the most hardy varieties by a temperature 

 of -11° F". In fact fewer peaches were borne at Columbia following 

 the winter of 1908-09 than following the winter of 1904-05 when 

 the temperature fell to -25° F. on February 13. A temperature of 

 -12° F. on February 2, 1905, killed only a very small percentage of 

 the buds of such tender varieties as Yellow St. John. It may be 

 said too that a temperature of -15° F. on January 7, 1912, killed 

 practically every peach bud at Koshkonong, Missouri. By referring 



