New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 231 
At an examination late in September it was very evident that 
this method of treatment had been a total failure. All of the 
trees were entirely dead or had only a few straggling leaves. 
The vigorous shoots that promised so well in June were all dead. 
The discoloration of the bark and wood was nearly the same as 
it was in March. 
The result with old pear trees that were “ dehorned ” was the 
same as with these old peach trees; they died in the same way. 
Observations made in orchards in various fruit sections of the 
State confirmed the results of these experiments with both peach 
and pear trees. 
In the case of young peach trees trees the reverse seems to be 
true. Upon the farm of Mr. Gregory Brundage, Salisbury Mills; 
about ten miles from Newburg, were 5000 peach trees from 2 to 
5 years old, of the following varieties: Elberta, Champion, 
Stevens’ Rareripe, Clair’s Choice, and Salway. Soon after the 
extreme cold of January 5 and 6, Mr. Brundage decided that the 
trees were seriously injured and began at once to “ dehorn ” them. 
In one orchard the work was finished in a few weeks. In the 
others the work was delayed until the last of March. 
When these trees were examined in June they had made 2 
splendid recovery. Many vigorous shoots had started out from the 
branches and there was an abundance of large well colored fol- 
iage. In'some of the trees the new growth had become so thick 
as to require thinning. 
It was very apparent that the trees cut back in January had 
recovered better and were making a more vigorous growth than 
those on which the work was delayed until March. 
In one field three trees were not cut back but left for compari- 
son. By the middle of June two of these trees were dead, the 
other was making a fair recovery, but the new growth was all in 
the top, making an undesirable tree. Three trees were hardly 
enough to compare with 5000 but their condition indicated that 
Mr. Brundage did not make a mistake in cutting these trees 
back. ‘ 
At the time of the last examination, about the first of October, 
the trees had made an immense growth, more than five feet in 
many cases, and it was still evident that the trees cut back early 
were better than those cut back in March. Less than 25 trees 
