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with floods of water, but still the warmth continues, and we hope no harm will result, but 

 rather much good to the crops of grain and fruit of this country, filling our hearts 

 with joy and gladness for abundant mercies bestowed. 



June 6th to the 10th. — Strong winds; much cold and some frost has lately much 

 prevailed, and may possibly tell disastrously on the young and tender fruit of this country. 

 July 1st. — The annual birthday of our young Dominion, beautiful and fine but rather 

 inclined to wet. It now appears that the injury done to our fruit crop by the cold and 

 blighting winds of last month was widespread and very destructive, more so than we have 

 had it occur here for many years. The leaves of the peach trees are almost totally 

 shrivelled up and destroyed by the disease known as curl, which was no doubt caused by 

 the same destructive influence. This is the worst attack I have ever seen, and in some 

 cases will nearly, or quite, kill the trees. The young and tender strawberries just setting 

 were in many cases badly frozen, and the crop will be much injured in consequence, but 

 on the whole the crop now getting ready for picking is very fine and tolerably good. 

 Some new varieties have come into prominence this season and promise to be popular 

 and good. One of these is Duncan, a very fine fruit, and the plant is very prolific ; and 

 another is Warren, also a very fine promising fruit. We are very sorry to have to notice 

 that the apple crop is much injured and almost totally ruined by the same destructive 

 influences before noted. So severe were its dire eflfects upon the apple trees that the leaves 

 are blighted, blackened and destroyed, and in many cases falling prematurely from the 

 trees, giving them an untimely autumn appearance. This is very surprising to our 

 orchardists, and many of them wonder what is the matter. What little fruit is setting on 

 the trees will neither be beautiful nor good, as almost every specimen is badly injured on 

 the upper side and' will be scabbed and puckered, and of course unmarketable. Pears are 

 almost as badly afiected but not quite, and the specimens that are setting are not so badly 

 injured. There seems to be no diflerence in varieties, as far as these efiects are concerned. 

 The influences on the cherry and the plum trees were not so disastrous as on the fruits 

 before noticed. The first of those fine fruits is now ripening up very nicely ; and were it 

 not for the thieving propensities of our birds, we might pick a very fine crop, but as it is 

 now the cherry cannot be depended upon for a crop of fruit, for the birds have them away 

 before the fruit-grower can secure a specimen to test its luscious qualities. We find also 

 that the Duke and Morrello classes of cherries would be the most desirable to plant on 

 account of their ability to withstand disease. Of the latter we are glad to report the 

 prospects good for a crop wherever the trees have been attended to and systematically and 

 persistently jarred to keep off" the dreaded curculio. Reine Claude de Bavay and Lom- 

 bard are still trusty and best varieties to plant for market sorts. Scarcely a solitary 

 peach will be had to grace our scanty board. Gooseberries and currants are also con- 

 siderably affected, but still in these fruits the crop will be a medium one and some fine 

 samples may be picked although not abundant. Raspberries and blackberries, on account 

 of their later development, will come off" clear, and the crop wherever well attended to 

 will be large and good. The Black Cap varieties will be exceedingly abundant and fine. 

 Mammoth Cluster and Gregg are the staples. Though the strawberry crop is still very 

 popular and very profitable, yet in these fine fruits we have great confidence as they fill 

 a much-needed place on the board. In our grapes we appear to have our only hope of 

 reliance for a good fruit crop this coming autumn. In these fine popular fruits we have 

 a great advantage in that we have the power of protecting them from the severity of our 

 well-known treacherous winters. By the simple operation of laying down the canes late 

 in the fall of the year and covering them slightly with earth to keep them down so that 

 the cold and perishing winds cannot pass over them, they are safe and will come out after 

 the most dreaded season unharmed and ready to bear a full crop. This is a point of 

 great value in the grape, and could we do it in case of our peaches and peai's it would be of 

 inestimable worth. The young grape crop at the present time is full of flattering promise, 

 and the numerous and magnificent bunches are just now setting full and splendid, and are 

 the hope and the joy of the attentive and intelligent fruit-grower. Rogers' Hybrids are 

 particularly full and promising this sesson and so is Hartford Prolific and Champion, but 

 Concord and Delaware, having borne such a massive crop last season, are not so full. 

 Martha is a grape of great promise, and for a fine, hardy, popular white grape, fills the 



