Fruit trees did not suffer much last winter (1914-5). All report plenty of moisture in ground.
Varieties of apples doing best: Wealthy, Duchess, Longfield, Salome, Spitzenberg, Northwestern Greening, Anisim, Malinda, Hibernal, Jonathan.
Spraying neglected very largely.
I am doing all of the top-working I can get done every spring.
Am setting largely the Salome. I find the tree hardy here; a moderate bearer; apples fine and handsome; a good keeper; tree does not blight and grows very thriftily. It grows on a great share of the stocks in which I have placed it.
My next best apple is the Spitzenberg. I am not placing many Wealthy scions, as I have about all I want of them.
I tried thinning the fruit on some of my heavy bearers last summer and like it much. I think the best way to do it is to cut out the fruit spurs, as that can be done in the winter.