Show doo doc Go rivie i mature 7 at a meeting of 0 the california horticultural ti society held in sacramento on the ath ot of may alay the question of 0 frost damage to fruit was discussed at considerable sid erable length several leading growers persistently held that young peaches which had been subject to the action of frost sufficiently hard to turn the pit black would fall to mature and would fall from the trees one gionet present reported that his peaches were showing a black pit but that they were not dropping and continued to grow A prominent grower whose peaches had been subject to the action ot of rost frost took much interest in the discussion and concluded to watch his peaches closely with a view of testing the different opinions held by the alic growers on cutting thorn them ho he noticed the pits were black but they did not drop from the trees but continued to grow and finally fully matured upon examination the pit was found to be perfect so far as appearance was concerned being hard arid and firm upon cracking it the germ within was found to be shriveled and dried up until no bof thicker than a heavy piece ol of paper in tact fact tho the covering or skin of the germ contained nothing within it the substance and the vitality both having departed this opens up a wide field for speculation were there special soil or climatic conditions existing where these peaches were grown would they have dropped under tinder other conditions either of soil or climate will peaches in which the germ Is destroyed ordinarily develop into large choice fruit a as s did the visalia fruit the processes of nature are very mysterious ter te but few of 0 them are entirely past finding out and we look tor for further discussion on this subject |