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trees were destroyed. Each of the trees represents a var- 
iety. The greater part of those killed were reset last 
spring. 
It is proposed to head a portion of the trees of these fruits 
low in the future, and to make the experiment of protect- 
ing them through the winter by placing stalks of tall corn 
or sorghum about them late in autumn. 
The apples grafted in the spring of 1883 have made a 
good growth, with three exceptions. The Sweet Bough, 
Blenheim Pippin and Hubbardston were found to be nearly 
or quite dead last spring and were therefore reset. 
The apple crop was a general failure in this section the 
past season, though the trees blossomed nearly as well as 
usual. Of the varieties grafted in 1883, eight of the thir- 
teen summer sorts, eleven of the twenty-two autumn, and 
twenty-three of the fifty winter varieties bore more or less 
blossoms, though few of these matured any fruits. 
The Lord Suffield deserves mention as a promising late 
summer apple for family use. In spite of the general scar- 
city, this tree bore a good crop of large and fine fruit. The 
first samples were ripe about August 5, and others con- 
tinued to mature until after the middle of September. In 
quality they were fair for dessert use, but would probably 
prove excellent for cooking. 
The cherry trees have suffered a considerable mortality. 
Those of the plum and pear, however, have made a good 
growth. A portion of all of these may be expected to bear 
some the coming season. 
In all the orchard fruits careful notes have been kept of 
the various details of growth, as the date at which the first 
leaves and blossoms appear, the time when the leaves com- 
mence to fall, and have all fallen, the length of new growth, 
etc. In the case of the apple, these notes are already devel- 
oping some interesting facts. The time of maturity of the 
leaves appears to be a well marked variety character, and 
hence it may be used in describing varieties. It has been 
observed that in a large part of the Russian apples on trial, 
the leaves begin early to turn yellow, and nearly all fall im- 
mediately after the first frost, while in the greater part of the 
native sorts the leaves show no signs of maturity until 
frost, after which they turn brown, shrivel and fall appar- 
ently without ripening. The greener the foliage the more 
frost it appears to endure without being killed. 
