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1909. 
WINTER INJURY TO PEACH TREES. 
Last week we gave some notes on 
peach yellows taken from the Connecti¬ 
cut report. Peach trees are often found 
dead or dying and the injury credited 
to yellows when other causes are re¬ 
sponsible. A case of this sort is report¬ 
ed by Dr. G. P. Clinton. Following a 
THE RUFtAIi NEW-YORKER 
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ONE SIDE LEFT ALIVE. Fig. 527. 
severe drought and a hard Winter a 
good many peach trees began to die 
shortly after they leaved out. In one 
case this trouble was confined to a sin¬ 
gle variety. They were bought for E!- 
bertas, but another kind, probably Late 
Crawford, was substituted. This proved 
more tender than Elberta, and most of 
them died. The Connecticut Station 
report follows: 
The diseased trees had started to de¬ 
velop their foliage, hut this soon turned 
yellow and dropped off before maturing. 
Soni" of the trees by .Tune 2 had dropped 
all of their foliage except small tufts at 
the end of the twigs, hut the fruit still 
adhered. The trouble was found to he 
due to Winter injury, which killed the 
roots and girdled the hark at the base of 
the tree, reaching above the ground two 
or three inches, and forming the so-called 
“collar girdle.” This hark could easily be 
peeled off, as shown in tire illustration. 
Some indication of injury to the wood at 
the girdle was also shown by its brownish 
color. Some of the trees were dead only 
on one side, and in that case the roots 
were not all killed or the hark completely 
girdled. 
This injury to peach trees is most likely 
to occur on places where the soil is not 
properly drained, or where the trees are 
exposed so that the snow is blown off from 
the ground around the trees. The snow 
acts as a mulch, and is of great value in 
protecting the roots and base of the tree. 
Cover crops or a vegetable mulch is of 
similar service where injury of this kind 
BARK KILLED IN WINTER. Fig. 528. 
is likely to occur. Likewise, growers in 
this State have found it profitable, especial¬ 
ly with young trees, to throw up the dirt 
around the base in the Fall and then 
scrape it away again in the Spring. 
Picture of the injured tree and a case 
where one side started to grow are 
shown at Figs. 527 and 528. 
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A CANADIAN SEEDLING PLUM. 
d he plum shown in Fig. 529 origina¬ 
ted in my own garden, springing up 
along with about a dozen-others under 
one of my Lincoln trees. I transplanted 
all of them in a row, and let all grow 
until bearing age, this being the only 
one worth anything, I destroyed the re¬ 
mainder. I watched this tree particu¬ 
larly, being a better grower and show¬ 
ing bark and foliage resembling the par¬ 
ent, and it has developed into a nice 
shapely tree. It is now 11 years (last 
Spring) from the seed, and the present 
is the sixth crop, which was over two 
baskets, or exceeding half a bushel. The 
first crop was three plums. I had about 
60 seedlings altogether in the row, and 
out of the lot there is only one other 
of any value. This other did not bear 
any this season, having a very heavy 
crop last year. It is a handsome, sweet, 
plum and resembles Lombard some¬ 
what; it clings to the stone, instead of 
dropping when overripe it hangs on and 
starts to dry up at the stem end, which 
I consider a very useful pecu’.iarity. 
I have also a new harvest apple that 
I think will be of some value, seedling 
of Duchess, fully two weeks earlier, and 
averages larger; very fine flavor, and 
texture resembling a pear; well striped 
red on greenish yellow ground, and tree 
an ideal shape with immense sized 
leaves and the best jointed limbs to body 
A CANADIAN SEEDLING PLUM. Fig. 529. 
I ever saw on any tree. It has already 
acquired a local reputation as a dessert 
apple. The boys of -the street are al¬ 
ways anxious to know when they are 
fit to sample. wm. judge. 
Ontario, Canada. 
R. N.-Y.—The plum was of delicious 
flavor, rich and sugary, with the quality 
we all look for in this fruit. It im¬ 
pressed us as distinctly'' valuable, com¬ 
bining high flavor with good shipping 
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