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Washington: Apple-trees just in full bloom. Wyoming: Fruit-trees late, but fall of 
blossoms. Jefferson: The prospect for fruit very good. Niagara: Peaches an entire 
failure. Erie: Plum-trees in bloom the 25th; cherry-trees the 27th; apple-trees half 
out on the 30th. ; ' 
PENNSYLVANIA.— Luzerne : Peach-trees nearly all killed by the winter; also grapes ; 
pears good as usual. Union: The peach-trees are all dead, the winter being too cold. 
Clearfield: Fruit-trees just in blossom. Adams: The extreme cold of last winter 
proved very destructive to buds, in many instances killing even the trees. There will 
probably not be over 100 bushels of peaches in the county. Cumberland : Peaches have 
all been frozen. Berks: Fruit of all kinds looks rather discouraging. Peach-trees and 
grape-vines badly frozen—worse than I ever knew them. Nortaumberland: The un- 
commonly severe frosts of last winter killed most of our grape-vines and quince-trees, 
and so greatly injured our cherry, peach, and plum trees, that they will bear little, if 
any, fruit this year. My Catawba and Isabella grape-vines froze down to the ground, 
and even my Clinton vines were considerably injured. Apples and pears promise 4 
fair crop. Lancaster: Fruit considerably damaged by the severe winter. Greene: All 
the peaches on low ground winter-killed. 
New JERSEY.—Sussex: Apples will not make more than half a crop, judging from 
the quantity of blossoms, but the condition is good. No peach-blossoms ; suffered 
from the severe winter. Monmouth: Peaches have been generally killed. Camden: 
Peach-bloom killed last winter; also the twigs and young limbs of last year’s growth. 
Burlington: No fruit worth mentioning in my peach orchard and those in the vicinity. 
Pears very promising. Many apple-trees had no bloom. Mercer: The bloom has just 
fallen ; fruit promises well. Hudson : Orchards exhausted by the large yield last year, 
but where manure was profusely used a fair crop is promised. Pears blossomed well, 
but late frosts caused the fruit to drop off. 
DELAWARE.—Sussex : Area in strawberries double that of last year; flattering pros- 
pect for a large crop. , 
MARYLAND.— Howard : No peaches on low lands. Caroline: A large crop of straw- 
berries. Baltimore: Peaches are winter-killed; other fruit promising. Queen Anne : 
Apples, peaches, and pears much injured by late frosts. 
ViRGINIA.—Powhatan: Crop promises to be enormous. Northumberland: On the 
night of April 25 ice made an eighth of an inch thick, and did considerable damage to 
fruit. Spotisyluania: Large apple-crop ; largest peach-crop for many years. Floyd: 
The peach-crop, pears, and early cherries, have been greatly injured by late frosts. 
Greenville: Promise of abundant pears and peaches; apples are dropping off sadly. 
King William : On the 4th of April we hada very severe freeze, which killed the apples, 
then in bloom; but the peaches were too far advanced to be much hurt. Warren: 
Peaches nearly all destroyed by frost, except those on high land with northern expo- 
sure. Prince George: The severe frost April 26 seriously injured the fruit; remote from 
the water-courses there will be scarcely any. Mecklenburg: Fruit crop very promis- 
ing. Alexandria: Peach-buds generally injured by the severity of the winter. Buck- 
ingham: Fruit-crop badly injured by frost April 20. Chesterfield: A large portion of 
the fruit has dropped off the trees, owing to the severe freeze on the 26th of April. 
Lancaster: All kinds give promise of an abundant crop. 
Nor tH CAROLINA.—Gates ; The apple and pear crop almost an entire failure. Chowan: 
Scarcely any apples or pears. Cherokee : Apple and peach crop nearly destroyed by the _ 
frost late in April. Davie: The heavy frost April 26 killed fruit. Haywood: Not as 
full bloom of fruit-trees as common; a frost late in April killed af least three-fourths 
of the crop. Cumberland: Fruit of all kinds killed by freeze April 26. Franklin : 
Damaged by hail-storms. Moore: Fruit nearly all killed by late frosts. Rowan: Fruit- 
crop almost entirely destroyed by frost in April. TZredell: Fruit of all kinds killed by 
frosts. Ashe: Peaches killed in the bud. Anson: A killing frost about the last of 
April damaged the fruit to a great extent. Union: Dry weather, and heavy frost the 
jiast of April, killed nearly all the fruit. Polk: Tne fruit-crop will be almost a failure 
on account of heavy frosts. Burke: Late frosts have killed, in many places, nearly all 
the fruit-crop. Montgomery: Nearly all fruits killed by the frost of April 26. Stanly : 
The hard frost in April well-nigh annihilated the crop of fruit. 
SourH CaARroLina.—Darlington : Bunch-grapes entirely destroyed by severe frost 
and ice, April 26. Peaches severely injured; also pears and apples. Fairfield: Fruit 
all killed by frost April 26. Greenville: All the young fruits appear to be dead; the 
trees wear a bucnt aspect. York: Fruit of all kinds a complete failure, being killed 
by the frosts from the 15th to the 25th of April. Lexington: The entire crop of apples, 
pears, peaches, and grapes nearly destroyed by a heavy frost April 25. Marion: Fruit 
destroyed by frost April 26. 
GrorGia.— Madison: A failure owing to the killing frost on the 26th of April. Jr- 
winton: Peaches and apples destroyed in a,great degree by cold, high winds. Troup : 
An abundance of peaches and other small fruits. Jackson: Apples and peaches killed 
by frosts. 
AvLABAMA.— Winston: A frost, April 13, injured fruit. Saint Clair: In some neigh- 
