Show DOM does fruit mature 7 at a meeting of the california ifor tl ti cultural society held in sacramento on the ath of 0 may ala the question of 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 tall fall to mature and would fall from the trees one browet present reported that his peaches were showing a black pit but that they were not dropping and continued to grow A prominent grower whose choso peaches had been subject to the action of 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 th growers on cutting them 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 BO far as appearance was concerned being hard and firm upon cracking it the germ within was found to be shriveled and dried up until not no thicker than a heavy piece of paper in tact fact the covering or skin of the germ contained nothing within it the th substance and the vitality both haying having departed this opens up a wide field toy for speculation were there special soil or climatic conditions existing where these peaches were grown would they have dropped under other conditions either of soil or climate T will peaches in which the germ Is destroyed ordinarily develop into large choice fruit as did the visalia fruit the processes ot of nature are very my mysterious s ter te but few ew of them are entirely past finding out and we look for further discussion on this subject |