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Peach-crop very poor from severe cold and heavy sleet in February and March. High- 
land : Peaches a failure. 
Norru Carorina,— New Hanover : Fruit-crop almost entirely destroyed by heavy frost 
in April. Chatham: So much rain that grapes have rotted badly. Over one-third of 
my pear-trees are dead or dying with the blight. Chowan: Not enough apples to make 
vinegar for the county’s use. Pears, peaches, and grapes will fall short of an average 
erop. Franklin: The fruit-crop is very uneven ; the hail damaged it in some sections 
of the county. Iredell: An entire failure in apples and peaches on account of late 
frosts. Davidson: The late frost killed both apple and peach blooms in many places. 
Alamance: Fruit-crop very short—almost a failure. This county, in 1872, shipped 
400,000 pounds of dried fruit—berries, cherries, plums, peaches, and apples. The ship- 
ment in 1873 will be very small. Moore: The late frost destroyed the apple and peach 
crop except in very elevated localities. Robeson: The only year within my recollection 
that the fruit of all kinds was so entirely destroyed by frost. Clay; The apple and 
peach-crop almost a failure. Madison: Apples were nearly all killed by the late frosts, 
and the fruit-crop generally is almost a failure. Stokes: Apples and peaches continue 
to drop off. Stanley: The frost of April swept away the apples and peaches. Burke: 
By reason of late frosts, the apple and peach crops are an entire failure in some parts 
of the county. 
SourH CaroLtmna.—Clarendon: Fruit of every kind seriously injured by late frosts ; 
not a-half crop on the trees. Lexington: Grapes generally destroyed by the frost. 
Only once before, in the last thirty years, do I remember such a calamity to have 
befallen us. 
GEorRGIA.—Richmond: Varieties of grapes of the types distivalis, Cordifolia, and La- 
brusca are decaying badly, except Ives, Delaware, and Concord. The latter are not 
quite sound, but better than most other varieties. Scuppernong and all varieties of 
the type Rotundifolia are sound, but the crop of fruit small, owing to the superabund- 
ance of rain during the inflorescence of the vine. Crop of peachessmall; injured by 
frost April 26. A very large crop of pears. Baldwin: Apples and peaches were injured 
by late frosts. Gwinnett: All fruits killed by late frosts, except in a few localities. 
FLorips.— Orange: The orange-crop promises to be a good one. Jackson: Peaches 
are about the same as last year. Grapes are doing well. 
ALABAMA,—Jefferson: The increase in the culture of the grape, particularly the Scup- 
pernong, is great in this county, and the increase of wine from the same will be at 
least 300 per cent. this year. Montgomery: Early apples and peaches ripe, very good, 
and the crop more abundant than last year. Grapes promising and abundant; also 
strawberries and blackberries. Winston: Fruit not as abundant as common, but larger, 
and therefore quite equal to an average crop. Calhoun: Apples and peaches have 
rotted and fallen off badly. Grapes have been pierced by an insect, and are rotting. 
Bullock: Apples and peaches were injured by the late frosts. 
Mississipri1.—Newton: Peaches were plenty, but have rotted. Amite: Peach-crop 
nearly destroyed by a series of late frosts; apples not injured. Grenada: The fruit 
crops all better than last year. Lee: Fruit crops as promising as ever seen. Peaches 
and apples ripe; grapes, both cultivated and wild, are very abundant, but all the tame 
varieties are more or less rotting from the constant rains. Smith: Very late frosts and 
heavy hail destroyed the apples and peaches to a considerable extent. Tishemingo : Not 
many peaches; grapes are rotting. Wilkinson: Peaches, grapes, and other fruits much 
injured by excessive rains. : 
LovuIsIAns.—Franklin: Apples yery fine and plentiful; peaches, supply scant; pros- 
pect good. Morehouse: The peach-crop very small; apples fine; grape-vines heavily 
laden with fruit ; never have seen the like either in France or in Germany. 
Texas.—Dallas: Peaches an entire failure from frost the 25th of March. Blanco: 
Apples, pears, peaches, cherries, figs, plums, almonds, and wild grapes, all destroyed by 
late frost and grasshoppers. San Saba: All fruit entirely destroyed by late frost and 
grasshoppers. Upshur: Very late and much injured by rains in June. Gonzales : Fruit 
killed by late frosts; peaches nearly all destroyed; but few apples growing. Medina: 
Peach-crop damaged by the grasshoppers. Colorado: The frost killed the peaches. 
De Witt: Peach-trees are bending with fruit of fine size. Grapes fine. llis: The 
frosts killed all our fruit. Hays: Peaches and grapes all killed by frosts and freeze last 
spring. Karnes: Fruit crop very much injured by the late frosts. Grapes were nearly 
' all destroyed except the variety known as the the Black Spanish, which was not much 
affected by the frost. There is an abundant crop of the native wild-grape, (known as 
the Mustang,) from which excellent domestic wine is manufactured. 
ARKANSAS.—Franklin : The apple-crop bids fair to be a very large one. No peaches 
except on very elevated situations. 
TENNESSEE.— Williamson: The apple-crop is a failure. Stewart: Fruit nearly all 
killed by late frosts. Lawrence: Peach-crop greatly damaged by late spring frosts. 
Giles: Apples and peaches a failure, except on high points and points protected 
by timber, from the frost of April 26. Meigs: The late frosts killed almost all the 
fruit. Smith: Frost the 26th of April killed nearly all our fruit; the little left is in 
