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Cottage, two years out — Not injured in tlie least and fruiting well. 



Brighton, three years out — About one lialf killed to the ground. 



Lady, three years out — About same as Brighton. 



Eva, two years out — Killed to the ground. 



Telegraph, two years out — Killed to tlie ground. 



Maxatauney, two years out — Killed to the ground. 



Northern Muscadine, three years out — Killed to the ground. 



Dracot's Amber, two years out — Killed to the ground. 



Cottage, two years out — Not injured and fruiting heavily. 



Champion, three years out — But little injured and fruiting. 



Massasoit, three years out — But little injured; not fruiting much. 



Martha, three years out — But little injured; not fruiting much. 



Lindley, three years out — More than half killed to the ground. 



Worden, three years out — All right and fruiting well. 



Perkins, three years out — All right and fruiting well. 



Ives, three years out — Considerably injured. 



Salem, three years out — Considerably injured. 



Goethe, three years out — Two-thirds killed to the ground. 



Agawam, three years out — About like Gojthe. 



Concord, three years out — All right and indicates a good crop. 



Concord, four years out — Never looked better. 



Concord, old vineyards — Never looked better. 



Hartford, old vineyards — Slightly injured; doing well. 



Delawares, old and young — All killed to the ground. 



Diana, old and young— All killed to the ground. 



July 2.— Although Hartford and Concord started out well with a good show for 

 fruit, neither have set well, and near the lake particularly I think the crop will be 

 both late and light. 



W. A. Brown : My impression is that many sorts mentioned by Mr. Tate 

 as suffering so severely, dropped their leaves prematurely last season, and thus 

 the vines became unfitted to withstand an exceptionally hard winter. 



Mr. Lannin: Overloaded vines shed their leaves and were winter killed 

 with me, but I never had so fine a showing of Concords as this summer. Plums 

 were peculiarly affected by the winter. Mr. Nagle near me lost two-thirds of a 

 very fine orchard. 



Question — How cold was it at his place? 



Mr. Lannin: I think the thermometer registered once as low as — 18°. 

 The trees killed were upon heavy soil. Other plum orchards in our region are 

 severely injured. We thought ut one time our peaches were gone, and then, 

 again, when the blooming time came we thought we were to have a great crop, 

 but since then a large number of trees have died. They seemed to give away 

 as the dry weather came on. 



Mr. Mann: Collar's great plum orchard of 2,000 trees, near Adrian, is 

 dead. It is situated on heavy clay soil ; some never leaved out, others have 

 succumbed since. Peach trees were not killed within ten feet of some of the 

 most hardy varieties. 



S. G. Antisdale, Benton Harbor: Did the trees prematurely drop their 

 leaves last year? 



Mr. Mann : My impression is that a large number of them did. 



Mr. Antisdale : My observation during the two seasons has connected the 

 two facts together — the premature falling of the leaf and the severe winter- 

 killing. I note Baldwins on heavy soil killed, and on light soil slightly in- 

 jured. Now, may it not be true that the wood upon the heavy soil was left 

 immature, jn the same way as the wood when the leaves dropped off, and thus 

 the trees were unfitted for the severity of winter? 



E. J. Shirts, Shelby : It was true with us that most of the plum trees in- 

 jured were upon heavy soil. Upon our lighter soils the trees are all right, and 

 we are to have our usual crop. 



