The principles of fruit-growing . Fig. 52. Live and killed pistils Killing of Frttit-hnds. 321 bud is not opened, it may require a longitudinalcut of the knife to determine the exact condition,but last winter an ordinary pinch of the swollen bud. Fig. 53. Showing, respectively, swollen buds of apricot, peach, Japan plum,and pear, all of which were tininjiired by 14° of frost. was enough to demonstrate that all was blasted andworthless within. Injuries to the swelling buds.—A great amount ofmischief is done by cold snaps after the buds havebegun to swell, and yet the disaster is not so easilywr
The principles of fruit-growing . Fig. 52. Live and killed pistils Killing of Frttit-hnds. 321 bud is not opened, it may require a longitudinalcut of the knife to determine the exact condition,but last winter an ordinary pinch of the swollen bud. Fig. 53. Showing, respectively, swollen buds of apricot, peach, Japan plum,and pear, all of which were tininjiired by 14° of frost. was enough to demonstrate that all was blasted andworthless within. Injuries to the swelling buds.—A great amount ofmischief is done by cold snaps after the buds havebegun to swell, and yet the disaster is not so easilywrought,— at least not in the north,— as is commonlysupposed. Even the buds of the tenderer fruits mayendure very sharp freezes after they have begun to 322 The Frindples of Fruit-groiving. show color. In the spring of 1897, some observa-tions were made upon this point at Cornell. Endsof aprieots, peaches, plums and pears (as shown inFig. 53) had swollen to three or four times theirnormal size. The pink color of the apricot buds wasdistinctly visible, and the tips of the anthers couldbe seen in the Japan plums by looking down squarelyupon the buds. In this condition, the buds enduredwith no injury the following temperatures, as taken
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