Show ice to retard apple trees while the californians bere suffel ing from aber worst freeze they ban hae e ever knon the apple and peach grou growers ers of the atlantic states stater IN acie ei e fearful that the long continued weather eather would force their trees to bloom in ill january and that they would bo be caught b a subsequent frost and the prospect of a crop rui ruined ried one man in washington wm F thomas is reported to have purchased tons tong of ice hauled it to hib his apple orchard in maryland near by and had it cracked and piled around his apple trees in an effort to keep them thein from blossoming bloss oming this it was stated in the tile laeal ax al crebs js done on the advice of the department of agriculture |