Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-27
THE LOSS OF APRICOT TREES.


subject Of much comment and inquiry
bv fruit-growers and the press, with a view
to ascertain the cause and if possible FIND
remedy. Several communications have
been received upo1, the subject, in response
to an article which appeared in the RECORD
UNION recently, but, unfortunately there
seems 10 be as yet no satisfactory solution
of the matter There Is hardly 4 fruit
grower who has an apricot orchard but
can report the loss of more or less trees,
and many have had such unwelcome ex-
perience that they will not plant any
hereafter
These facts are greatly to be regretted, as
California has been regarded especially the
home of the apricot, and its cultivation has
given rare promise of valuable returns TO
the State. A few years since 4 leading hor-
ticultural paper remarked in its enthusiasm
over the successful yield of aprieots in Eaca
valley, that such weld could be obtained
nearly throughout the State; that Caliior-
MIA was the natural orchard ground of this
class of fruit for she world, and that the
demand Of the world would fully equal all
we could proddce. This was q very 1iorid
picture but unless apricot trees prove to
have more certain tenure of life than at
present indicated in many localities, there
will be no increase % production beyond
Weld from the orchards now planted, but
ON the contrary, this viii soon very greatly
decrease.
The expressions which have been re-
ceved and heard rs TO loss of apricot trees
strongly show that there are various causes.
1t is known that among these, the stock
n Ig nj
an important part. The disease or blight
which has caused such widespread disa5-
ter and exhibits itself by causing the tree
to suddenly vither and die while in full
leaf, is another striking phenomenon in
the problem. The nOn-uniOn of the two
woods, at the point of budding, when april
cot is budded upon almond, fron which
cause the trees at variOus ages are broken
off. and tic tree thus lost has already been
the subject Of animated newspaper discus
sion. 6. Y. MilcJ, Of Stockton, member
of the State Board Of Horticulture, takes
strong grounds against the almond as
root stock for apricot budding, and regards
it an utter failure for that purpose, and that
much of present failure upon part OF april
cots is due to It. Felix Gillet of Nevada
City. and formerly member of the same
Board, think this complaint, at least in
part, arises from the method employed il
budding or grating.
ID ~ - III, ~. o5,1y, daca,, &c tho
So - gIeo,,,o+io,, eT,d a,,nr;a,,ra 10
~ ,,,r,I ,,.ifh H.. ofF,,5d -. ,.l,,,
CORRESPONDENTS. With me, during some
eight years experience, the apricot, upon
It's natural stock, has been hardy, VigOr-
Gus tree. and not single death, bearing
every year, but more prolific every second
- 80 -
- liie - - ~ -
Sely ililD tii-a " 10y fuestte,'i
IL u H.tpneli'' VI -I''s ~ . 100 oi-
CIlaIu Is eitu1lc'' vi ~ ~ w.,
says ne las ~ 80 i" 80 -
except %" inc StC'ill ot'lcl ANA. anu iiciice
ne ATTRIBUTES Any nc - "a - VI
Wholly uyl7 mere 20 d .t'Ci y s.'iiiLIeii'
moisture. ne NM, ne stoJE ''oil ilivi
tAe aPtICo' IS ou'i'ei 4I-os,G IA! sl'eCi Ia
reference 10 'ile SOL tP1-I WHlCh II - 70 Ge
grown mus VIC sou - sl'eI. an,
adapiea 20 ll' ll,a.'' i,9''in S,oeE s;lo tHa
ne u2eu "PDi N'I.gil =, pa' a. - - - 'iio
root Stock ana H"t lt.e '%'iG'F % II vil 70 oe
S1oWh upon y!' 5i@ll' "ii'H ID l4"i0'1! ~
ne cohsl'fTeI 10 Such ed5G' ~
d, Lhoi''a7 tI1-9ei' 81 i''e' I'M 80
MY experience WIN Fi'ihi ana aPlltoI
trees has pteii 'ilhlldl % many otlclS pun
iiShed from u-ae 70 u'Le III your paper
Ont OF -J3 pi'liA Fees Sc Out HFG eaI > a555',
fully thirty per cent nave "ilIeFed anu
died IN the spflhE hohlh5 "Aen ltb %
Fulr geutfa'1y H'''p ~ p.aHV4I az IN
showing s1nS 81 "e1'-{. llAis - sIte 20 oF
followed IN q l@" "eH'tS %! me o-ll-I10e "a
the Tree oSi'-' nc Pte39i.1 e 1-,l il''9
oeeh Ihe mes 'e'S'S nav a. - 80 ~
Flufns' "li1 "!,,o'9 l''rU 80 80
mo,a'' en- az - Tbo
ou'h VIZ 90 - - l,,
CAUSE must VIC III '-'-e7' - -: -
seeiuIlg' HaeLtAt 81 "ol ,Il-,97 80 VI
plum 10 DC "'i,c.7', 40 -!
my heiEHO'-9 "'sc mn 'iie - -.
ence Mess some Ie-ii?uS 1? 'ot,;u tl.'s o.
fruits VIII Aol Ds loN ~ LIE. LII Iai 80
any extent ii'uol -'I' 80 ~
more QiiI- ny 49, =,
= II u, VI - -, tbo s,I
tiic 'ate ~ ~ -, -, ,,5,.or -,
leel' w t'' -. 80 -, -, 60
GneT cot,"u"h H9sr no ~ -. - -
years. Inc Icy ms "a, % - ~ - 60
tor inc iaS1 lH'tt sc"7ql-' "iiU Vi = ~
quduly' lHeS az .,'''e' - -
STOCK, we nave u" Suuii5 80 -.
nave oeeA E.H'Ib "H'l t'i''I--U -, -, 80
snow no signs o. "-Sc'la' IA = - 80
washington anu St'l"il' o''L,,;' ~ 80.
TINS past "4H'I' - - .,t,, u,i1 :, o.
owners ~ W 'ii.. -..1', -, y, ,rf;cb
count loF ING n,5I,'l,"ua wy - tSot IN
trees one. la'V u,I' 81 ~. ~ t-eo az ,le
some Csc inc Il a." W '. ~. Irs-e
ground mas soit uut ~, l'-t',, - 49,,
been uhalie 10 et',i Il tt'3" i'1.' 80
were grated OF ou.uey' % $3.50 t'-'-l,' ~ ~
new shoots came from pG'oW 'Ic 80. ~. d,
were the same variety as me ,Tee lt'''' ''I',1l'
G. \. Milco, 81 Stockton {" 'Whoih I I'l
erence has already been maze n response
TO the RECORD NO" ing alFy' makes tle
following statement; ma from cAPe1-
rience that trees ouddc5 ON apricot s..
have no signs Of any ohse2st, VINE lil.,se
budded on peach nave lhVaf laD1y snow" WA
the suffering. / ind Old apFlc9t trees mere
OF thirty years standing, that nave rom
twenty to thirty boxes OF hne irult on IAlS
year, standing majcsiicaliy tree from any
gum or other disease. My experience IN
the nursery business IS that every man
nearly that IS protessiona! builder objects
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