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Southeastern New York. — Eleven reports from this section, in 

 which no varieties are named, report injury from 10 per cent, to 

 100 per cent., averaging 83 per cent. In reports which name 

 varieties, the following kinds are mentioned most frequently: 



Plums. 



'Northern New York. — The reports indicate that the plums which 

 are grown in this section of the state are cultivated chiefly for 

 home use. Twenty-five towns report the winter injury to plums 

 in general as varying from nothing to 100 per cent., and the aver- 

 age of these reports is 90 per cent. One report speaks of the 

 natives as uninjured. The average injury refjorted for the named 

 varieties varies from 50 per cent, to 100 per cent. Lombard is 

 mentioned fourteen times, and the injury reported for it varies 

 from 30 per cent, to 100 per cent., averaging 87 per cent. The 

 other varieties are mentioned from once to four times. They in- 

 clude two Japanese, two native and thirteen kinds of the Primus 

 domcstica L., the species most commonly cultivated in this 

 country. 



Eastern New York. — In some portions of this territory plums 

 were formerly grown very extensively for market, but the busi- 

 ness has been very much demoralized by the ravages of the dis- 

 ease known as the black knot, which has ruined many orchards. 

 Ten correspondents refer to cultivated kinds in general, with- 

 out specifying any particular varieties. The injury which they 

 report varied from 75 per cent, to 100 per cent., averaging 95 

 per oent. Other correspondents mention eleven kinds of the 



