68 ANNUAL REPORT 



4th. What varieties should be planted tof^ether for mutual 

 perfection in pollenizing? 



5th. What varieties have the greatest power to resist spring 

 frost and winds. 



Although I answered these questions in my previous paper, read 

 at your meeting last year, the answers were not satisfactory to my- 

 self, on account of the late spring and the heavy snowdrifts that 

 lay in parts of my orchard. The same varieties did not have an 

 equal chance for development. I kept close watch this spring of 

 the weather and date. I shall have to make extracts, therefore, 

 from my diary : "Our warm spring weather began to-day, May 6, 

 1882. Mercury went up at 2 p. m. to 84* in the shade; ground 

 quite dry; buds on early stone fruit developing fast. May 7, very 

 warm, 86*^. May 8, warm, 82°; showery this afternoon; saw the 

 first blossoms on early plums and peaches. Rain this morning, 

 May 9. May 10, 84^" at 2 P. m.; early peaches and plums in full 

 bloom. May 11, rain; cooled down to 52 degrees. May 12, rain 

 yet; cooled down to 42 degrees. May 13, cloud}'^; 46 degrees; sun 

 began to shine at 5 o'clock p. m. May 14, a fit.e day; 50 degrees 

 at noon; early cherries and plums in full bloom. May 15, wind 

 north; heavy frost this morning, but mercury went up to 53 

 degrees at 2 p. m,; some plum blossoms frosted on low ground; 

 cherries all right. May 16, 46 degrees at 2 p. m.; saw the first 

 apple blossoms on Summer Rose and the first pear blossoms on 

 Early Napoleon. May 17, a slight frost again; wind shifted to 

 southeast, and at 2 p. m. 80 degrees in the shade; Early Richmond 

 and Kentish cherries, also early pears, and here and there an apple 

 blossom are showing themselves; it is growing Avarmer all the 

 time. May 18; this morning at 7 o'clock it is 58 degrees; blos- 

 soms are showing themselves most everywhere. It is 84 degrees 

 at 2 p. M., and everything is taking a start again. Then came a 

 few cold days and nights that put a damper on blossoms; but they 

 have got a good ready now. There are a few flowers on Trans- 

 endent crab and Early Red, also on Belleflower crab and Early 

 Harvest, Sweet Harvest, Wealthy, Utter, Jonathan, Wint«r Wine, 

 Whitney No. 20, Fall Stripe, Fall Orange, etc. Duchess of Olden- 

 burg, Early Strawberry, Haas, Fourth of July, Lyman's Yellow 

 and Early Red commencing to bloom freely. 



May 19 — Cloudy this morning; very warm all night; 72 degrees 

 at 2 p. M.; rain at 5 p. m.; cool this evening. Most all varieties of 

 the apple and Siberian crabs and hybrids commenced blooming. 

 This warm wind fetches them all out at once except Northern Spy, 



