Excerpt from Chilling Requirements for Opening of Buds on Deciduous Orchard Trees and Some Other Plants in California Nearly all trees and bushes that survive cold winters and that Shed their leaves in autumn will make slow, straggling response to warm spring weather unless their Special chilling requirements have been satisfied. The same is true also of some herbaceous plants that, die down in autumn to buds underground. This condition in the buds that pre vents or retards their opening at favorable temperatures for growth, until after some weeks of chilling, is generally called the rest period by plant physiologists. In sections where cold winter weather begins by the first of November. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.