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Black-cap raspberries in some places were very good, and in others 

 bad failures; strawberries quite an utter failure; Concord grapes the best 

 I ever saw them ; red raspberries, esjjecially the Philadelphias, were quite 

 a success ; currants were a failure, which I think was due to the stalk- 

 borers working upon them. Early Richmond cherries were a good crop. 

 Black Morellos were good in some localities, and in some others there 

 were none. 



The Snyder blackberry is a wonderful success so far ; what it may 

 prove to be in the future we can only surmise ; we think the question of 

 its hardiness is now quite well settled ; our greatest fear for it, however, is 

 that it may succumb to rust, which has attacked and conquered so many 

 of other varieties; it does not bear its best until its fourth year from 

 planting, and thereafter. 



J. S. Johnson. — I want to hear the cause of the death of so many 

 apple-trees the last year explained. 



A. H. Gaston. — We all know that the ground was Warm under the 

 snow. Some nursery-trees were killed down to the snow line. 



Mr. Robison. — I had no dead trees this year on my place, from 

 the effects of cold. Snow fell early and on unfrozen ground, but I think 

 the ground froze afterward, as it was very cold. The canker-worm killed 

 some trees, however. Our Willow Twigs bore a fair crop, and in some 

 orchards they bore very heavily. 



Mr. McWhorter. — I wish to ask Mr. Johnson if the trees that died 

 had not been affected by the cold weather of the previous winter, and 

 thereby had become debilitated, if, in fact, they were not killed? 



J. S. Johnson. — The trees were in fine condition before the winter 

 set in. During the winter the snow fell to a considerable depth, and 

 below the snow the bark was loosened and forced from the tree, but 

 above the snow line the trees burst or split.open; in Adams county the 

 trees died the most on low ground. My idea is that the ground being 

 unfrozen below the snow the sap was active and forced itself upward and 

 gorged the tree, so when the extreme cold came on the tree was bursted 

 open by the expansion of the sap. 



Mr. McWhorter. — Did these trees make vigorous growth the pre- 

 vious summer ? 



J. S. Johnson. — Yes, they made very good growth. 



J. T. Johnson. — I live on one of the highest bluffs on the Missis- 

 sippi river, and my orchard is planted on an inclination to the north. 

 I lost but one tree from cold weather of last winter, although my orchard 

 occupies a place with the greatest exposure in our locality; the snow 



