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A new berry, the Columbus, is among the promising ones left. This Eeason 

 will decide whether it will ever be ollered to the public. Bubach, VVarlield and 

 Haverland, all are doing well. Old Capt. Jack and Cumberland are holding their 

 own. 



Raspberries and blackberries I have but little to say about, as the new railroad 

 runs through the main patches and destroys all. It will take some years to get 

 even with this loss. The new Wine berry frrm Japan is not hardy here, as they 

 are winter-killed to the ground, so there will be no fruit. I don't think this oddity 

 is worth its room unless It bears some fruit. 



Lovett's 1000 raspberry is among the ones not in the line of the railroad, 

 and is showing a line crop of bloom. So is Minnewaska and Erie blackberry. 



Young peach trees will be found under trees that bore fruit last season, and 

 can be taken up and set in rows to be budded next August or September. Any- 

 one can bud if he is shown how, and many a man could raise his own trees and 

 know what he has. 



There are two new ones that have come out that are said to bear every year. 

 The Champion and Crosby are both said to be hardy in bud. 1 purchased a few 

 -of each— small trees — but fear there is but one going to grow . But as usual, I cut 

 the tops ofl' and used some of the buds io strong stocks, and now see that both are 

 ^growing, so that in this way they are secure. I mention this for others to profit by. 



These buds may grow enough to bear fruit next year, while the trees are dead, 

 except one, and even if they grow would not bear fruit for three years. There are 

 now half a dozen new plums bearing on large trees, the grafts of which were taken 

 from small trees a few years ago, which trees may not bear for two or three years 

 more. 



The curculio and I have a fight, but think the Turk will be defeated. The 

 excessive and constant rains might have kept the eggs from hatching, as some 

 think, but it is a mistake, for many are stung. A sprayer has been at work 

 twice, but each time it rained the same or the next day. It is raining now to wash 

 off what 1 put on yesterday. But it will be fought out on this line if it takes all 

 summer. 



Six Wild Goose trees are loaded with sound fruit, so far, and will have to be 

 thinned out to have them develop properly. 



The apple crop is very promising just now, and the Codling moth has not been 

 •doing much, yet the sprayer has been at work. 



About this spraying, I find that the foliage of apricot trees is most suscepti- 

 ble to damage from the decoction that don't hurt the plum. To those who have 

 but a few trees that are small, any one can make a little sprayer with a thick elder 

 stem, just as almost every boy knows what a water-squirt is. But instead of one 

 large hole in the front stopper, there should be four little notches cut in the outside 

 of the stopper. Some half dozen little trees on a hill some 150 feet elevation, to 

 which it seemed extra labor to take up my big sprayer, were treated with such an 

 one. Carried two buckets of water up, mixed it up there with the poison. 



To get at the right measure, it is so weighed in little packets marked for five 

 gallons or ten gallons. When we go into the orchard with the barrel and sprayer, 

 the dose is in proportion. One pound London purple or Paris green to 200 gallons 

 ■of water is what I use in spraying apple trees, just double the strength as used on 

 the peach and plum . 



Next year will be the great exhibition at Chicago, and now is the time to pre- 

 pare for it. 



