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President Dyckman, of South Haven, says they estimate their peaches at 

 full half a crop. 



Mr. Waters, of Spring Lake, sends word that the prospect brightens and 

 they expect some peaches. 



A communication from J. N. Stearns, of Kalamazoo, details the preparations 

 being there made for the June meeting. They are to have essays, poems, fine 

 exhibition of small fruits, music, flowers, and a generous invitation of hospi- 

 tality is extended to all. The date of the festival can not yet be definitely 

 decided, but will be announced beforehand. 



Mr. C. Engle, of Paw Paw, writes that fruit prospects are good there except 

 for peaches. Grapes, pears, quinces, and small fruits promise well. 



FRUIT PEOSPECTS. 



p. D. Sneathen, of South Boston, Ionia county. — There are quite a number 

 of live buds on our peach trees, but we count on no crop, even in the most 

 favored localities. I have no trees entirely killed. Apples promise well. 

 Cherries fair, though the trees are some injured. Pears are materially discolored, 

 but not killed. 



G. W. Dickinson, Grand Rapids. — I can only speak of my own premises ; 

 there the apples are all right except Baldwins; the wood of these is discolored. 

 Cherry trees will hang full of blossoms. Pears of the varieties White Doyenne 

 and Bartlett, will blossom well. My Isabella grapes are coming out all right 

 as well as my Delaware, and that too without protection. 



Wm. Robinson, Vergennes. — Apples with us promise better than for years. 

 Of pears and cherries we shall have a full crop, and there will be some peaches. 

 Grapes appear to be uninjured. This was a fine fruit township. Last year 

 several thousand dollars worth of peaches were exported from the town. 



Mr. B. Barclay, Ada. — I am situated on the heights of Ada, and for over 

 thirty years I have not failed in a single season having some peaches, and but 

 in two or three instances of having a good supply; and am going to have some 

 this year, as I have brought buds to testify. Apples and cherries appear all 

 right 



J. T. Elliot, of Grand Rapids, could not speak so favorably of the prospects 

 in his locality, and said if he reported, his remarks would be similar to the 

 others, much modified by extreme cold. 



Mr. Cook, Grand Rapids. — My Flemish Beauty pears never looked better, and 

 I am going to have a crop of plums. 



Mr. Clement and Rev. Mr. Buel, of Ada, reported some fruits severely injured 

 by the cold. Mr. Clement's apple orchard was injured. The tips of his pear 

 trees were killed. This was on the Ada flats. 



Mr. Bradfield, Ada. — I have nothing good to tell. My grapes are killed back 

 to the old wood and my other fruit trees are not much better, except cherries, 

 which look well. I have a single small peach tree in a very exposed position, 

 which under the most unfavorable circumstances has survived and is leafing 

 out to the very tips. 



Mr. Bradfield believes that a grape that is worth growing is worth the trouble 

 of laying down ; two days' work last fall would have protected his whole vine- 

 yard, and saved him on his lona vines alone $200. Trees that were vigorous 

 last fall, of every variety, seem to recuperate most promptly this spring. 



His Concord and Hartford Prolific vines, without protection, were alive and 

 thrifty, while the Delawares, lonas, and Adirondacks, unprotected, were destroyed 

 back to the old wood. 



