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may be said of apple trees, for I find that the codlin moth was quite as 

 bad on the sprayed trees as on those not sprayed. 



Now we come to the strawberries. Of these there was a fair crop 

 wherever they had a fair show; but between the new railroad and the 

 liio^h water in the Missouri river, most of the crop was destroyed. The 

 only ones that did the fair thing were Columbus and Gen, Putnam, these 

 having^ been set out in a new place, and escaped the above damage. 



Raspberries a fair crop, and T still claim that the Centennial is the 

 best early black-cap, and Turner ihe best red. Hopkins, Seneca, Sou- 

 hegan and Gregg are all good ones. Of reds, the Shaffer seems the 

 most reliable, and, all in all, the most popular among the red ones. 

 Cuthbert is of no use with me ; it never bears a paying crop. 



Thwack I still kept, but now all are gone. The railroad graders 

 went through them in midsummer. They did the same with an acre 

 of blackberries, and if I had not planted some in another place a few 

 years ago, we would the past season have had to depend on wild ones. 



Among this fruit, one sent me by Mr. Riehl, of Alton, 111., is an 

 excellent one. Another one from Iowa promises well, and is the near- 

 est to a tree of any blackberry I ever yet grew. One red and one 

 white one sent me are of no valae. The Erie has made its mark here, 

 and Minnewaska has come to stay. The latter don't sucker much, and 

 plants are still scarce with me. 



Cherries were a good crop, but a spell of wet weather spoiled 

 about four bushels of my IsTapoleon, so that they were not worth pick- 

 ing. Eeine Hortense grew very large the past season, some measuring 

 over three inches in circumference, and of extra fine quality. 



Of peaches, we had just about enough for our own use, and also 

 were injured by the curculio. This insect seems to be on the increase, 

 and, unless we circumvent it, will soon be master of the situation. If 

 spared till next season, the jarring process will be my plan to destroy 

 them. If people knew it, and would take advantage of paved yards, 

 or where the ground is trodden bare, those having such situations can 

 raise plums without fail. 



I well remember a yard of about 100 feet square, in Lebanon, Pa., 

 planted thickly with quite a variety of plum trees, where the ground 

 was paved with flat stones — in which yard were more plums than 

 in all the rest of the lots in the whole town, a place of 6000 inhabit, 

 ants. In a house yard alongside of a walk the curculio is shy, and 

 trees usually mature their fruit. 



Of grapes we had a fair crop, just so far as they were sacked. 

 Spraying I did not resort to, because they might thus escape rot, but 



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