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little injured, and will have a fair crop. On the lower lands, highly cultivated 

 orchards were severely injured, and wnll have no fruit. Peach trees, except in 

 a few favored localities, were so badly damaged as to be rendered worthless. 

 His peach orchard, on a northwestern exposure, will bear a good crop in places, 

 some trees being killed. Sweet cherries were uninjured and are heavily loaded, 

 with fruit; American mulberries the same. His plum orchard of 750 trees 

 was not injured, and is well loaded with fruit. Mr. llamsdell's orchards are 

 all on the side hill. Pear trees — an orchard of sixty trees — are uninjured and 

 will yield well. Apricots are uninjured ; nectarines are badly damaged. There 

 will be no nectarines above the snow line. His two acres of grape vines are 

 uninjured, and are well loaded with fruit. Small fruits in the Grand Traverse 

 region are generally uninjured. 



Mr. Adair thought there would be a fair crop of apples from the orchards 

 in the vicinity of Detroit, but that other large tracts were generally killed. 



Prof. W. J. Beal, of the Agricultural College, reported that the fruit trees in 

 Ingham county were making a good growth this year, but he had never seen 

 so few fruit blossoms. The extreme cold of the last winter at Lansing was thirty- 

 three degrees below zero. The JSTorthern Spy was badly split by the frost. 

 Tile draining is very essential to the protection of orchards from the effects 

 of the frost. 



J. Suttle, of Grand Rapids, said a number of peach orchards in Kent county 

 are badly damaged by the frost, but would probably live. The apple crop is a 

 failure. Small fruits are a fair crop generally. Grape vines are occasionally 

 damaged by the late frost, the leaves being literally scorched off. 



Mr. Spaulding of Monroe said he had five and a half acres of grapes, mostly 

 Concords, not a vine of which has been injured. Off four acres he had gath- 

 ered last year 24,800 pounds, and thought he should do even better this year. 



The secretary remarked that the fruit growers of the Grand River Valley 

 were now engaged in holding post mortem examinations over their orchards. 

 They had begun to discover that crops of fruit could not be grown without the 

 soil was fitted by cultivation, by manures, and by draining. They had also 

 learned that large crops of fruit v/ere fully as exhaustive on these soils as heavy 

 crops of grain year after year. 



Mr. Waters, of Spring Lake, reported for that district that there would be 

 no peaches above the snow line in his part of the State, and that fruit trees of 

 all kinds were badly injured. Grapes will be about two-thirds of a crop. 

 Of small fruits there will be a full crop. Amongst the apples the Baldwins 

 and Greenings seem to have suffered most. 



Mr. Sterling reported that the crop of apples in Monroe would be a medium 

 crop, probably in many places a fair average. 



Tuesday evening the hall was filled to overflowing, tiie ladies and gentle- 

 men of Monroe turning out in full number. Mrs. C. Baldwin, teacher of 

 music at the young ladies' seminary, and other ladies, contributed some rich 

 vocal and instrumental music. The exercises of the convention commenced 

 by a very happy address from the Hon. H. J. Redfield, the mayor. 



MAYOR REDFIELD 'S ADDRESS. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: — The city authorities, in honor of your presence, have ordered 

 a particularly close cleaning and brushing up of streets and by-ways, and the elements, — 

 seemingly in unison with our desire to present a tidy appearance, — have combined to offer 

 us a day of uncommon loveliness. The full glory of ripe and robust summer, all redolent with 

 comfort and enjoyment, all fragrant with flowery perfumes and rich with fruity odors, is 

 in our full possession. The merry waters of our traditional river flash and glitter in the 



