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Mr. Newcomer. In a peach orchard three years old that was 

 badly frozen last season but made a good growth this season, is 

 there any possibility that these trees, with treatment, will bear 

 fruit for any length of time ? 



Prof. Blake. If proper attention is given it from now on it 

 ought to be very successful. I had some experience with an orchard 

 three years ago that went through a severe winter. The orchard 

 revived and bore a very heavy crop after that. 



Member. I have an orchard in that condition. Last winter 

 it froze down and looked as though it had been burned over by 

 fire. We have given it as first-class cultivation as we know how and 

 it made a good growth, but the trees in many instances seem de- 

 cayed at the heart. 



Prof. Blake. If the trees are well cared for I think the chances 

 are you can get profitable crops. I certainly would not give it up. 



C. J. Tyson. What would you think about the probability of 

 trees overcoming winter injury to the hard wood? 



Prof. Blake. If they make a good growth they will overcome 

 that injury, of course, but will be weaker than trees that have not 

 been effected in that way. Some orchards that have been injured in 

 that manner continue to bear good crops. The wood in the centre 

 is not quite so strong. 



R. A. Wickersham. Have you in your observation ever seen 

 trees bearing fruit on one side and the other side not bearing, on 

 account of hard winds? 



Prof. Blake. That fact occurs in some instances. The bees 

 and insects that pollinate the fruit will not work in the face of a 

 very cold wind. You will find the bees all on one side of the tree, 

 and if it happens to be a variety that needs cross-pollination, the 

 fruit will set largely on that side of the tree. It has been very 

 clearly shown that the pollen of the apple is not carried by the wind 

 to any extent. Sometimes, of course, the weather might be so 

 cold that the wind itself would injure the blossoms on one side of 

 a tree. 



A. W. Griest. To go back to injury of peach trees by cold, last 

 spring I planted out a lot of peach trees, and about one-third of 

 them, later in the season, started to grow and send out those shoots 

 from down near the ground. One-third of them did not start at all, 

 but I found later, in pruning the trees, that every tree was injured 

 at the heart. The wood was absolutely dead. What would be the 

 result with those trees if I let them grow ? Some of them afterward 

 made a very fine growth, sending up large, healthy shoots. 



Prof. Blake. The trees that made a good growth I think will 

 overcome it. As the trees are young I do not think the injury is 

 sufficient to permanently injure them. They ought to come out of 

 it all right. 



C. J. Tyson. Would you give the same answer if they were 

 apple trees ? We had the same experience with some apple trees last 

 spring. 



