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Clusters, cause the fruit to drop soon after the petals 
fail. There are a number of other insect reats that at- 
tack the opening flower-buds, causing a failure of the 
crop, During tac past seagon, the orchards about Batavia, 
ve Yeo, Were attacked by a leaf-roller, The newly hatched 
oaterplliars tied the opening leaves of the flower clus- 
ters and ate off the flower stems, so that there was 
practicaliy a failure of the ernp in some orchards. 
Frost ia worse in low lying regions where there is 
no body of water near to temper the climate. A good in- 
dication az to whether frost is a limiting factor may be 
determined by the getting of the fruit. 
Bven worthless fruit is encouraging if produced in 
abundance from year to year on the neglected orchard. 
It indicates that there ig little trouble Yrrom frost, 
which if it is the chief limiting factor, can only be met 
by expensive orchard heating, 
If the orchard is so situated that there is a free- 
dom from late frosts, the problem ig greutly simplified. 
The trees may be rejuvenated and the quality and quantity 
of the fruit much increased by careful orchard management. 
FACTORS TO BR CONSINERED IN ORCHARD RENOVATION. 
Orchard renovation naturally presupposes that the 
orchard is run down and hence, is no longer profitatle. 
In some cases, of course, neglect has gone so far, that 
