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_ again, producing one-third sf an average crop. In Pulaski County, 
Illinois, Concord grapes rotted worse than any other. 
Apricots.—An apricot tree in Somerset County, Maryland, netted $102 
over and above the cost of marketing. 
Matne.— York: Apples small and badly stung. Piscataquis: Apples blown off by 
the gale of August 24. Lincoln: Apples reduced by a heavy gale. Oxford: Lge 
and poor. 
ae HAMPSHIRE.—Grafton: Apples almost a failure. Carroll: Apples a failure. 
Sullivan: Apples a failure. Strafford: Grapes injured by rose-bugs. Cheshire: All 
kinds of fruit scarce. 
Massacuusetts.—Norfolk: Apples and peaches poor; grapes good, but short. Ply- 
mouth: Apples scarce and dropping. 
RHODE Istanp.—Kent: This being the unbearing year, apples are almost a total 
failure. 
ConneEctTicutT.—New London: Fruit poor. 
New Yor«.—Steuben: Grapes maturing finely; crop 25 per cent. ahead of last year. 
Ontario: Apples and peaches short. Wyoming: Apples short; grapes better than usual. 
Otsego: Apples avery light crop. Genesee: Apples not plenty, but good. Seneca: Fruit 
injured by late frosts. 
New Jersey.—Warren: Apples fine, but few; peaches almost an entire failure, es- 
pecially on low lands; grapes fine in quantity and quality. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Northampton : Apples, pears,and quinces a general failure. Berks: 
Peaches and grapes entirely failed. Cumberland: Apples and peaches scarce. Lehigh: 
The Clinton grape withstood the winter pretty well; all others, unprotected, were win- 
ter-killed. Northumberland: Apples few, but good; no peaches. Beaver: But little 
fruit of any kind. 
DELAWARE.—Kent: Peaches much better than was expected before ripening. 
MaryLanp.—Baliimore: Summer-apples dropping; winter varieties improved. Wet 
weather will, perhaps, injure grapes. Howard: Very few peaches. Calvert: More 
peaches marketed than ever before. Cecil: Apples very few and inferior. 
Vireinia.— Bedford: Grapesrottingseriously. Lunenburgh : Apples injured by worms 
to an unusual extent. Amelia: Grapes rotting badly; peaches injured by late rains, 
becoming very insipid Halifax: Fruit rotted badly; very little dried for market. 
King George: Fruit fine, but late rains have rotted the peaches and grapes somewhat. 
Buchanan: Peach-crop an entire failure. Mecklenburgh: Apples and peaches falling 
badly. King William: Applesand grapes rotting. Rockingham: Fruit of all kinds good. 
Warren : Grape-crop good where not damaged | by late rains. 
Norta Carorina.— Davidson: Very li ttle good fruit; peaches better than apples. 
Chowan: Grapes not half a crop. ‘Alamance: Peach-crop small and rotting badly ; 
dried-peach shipments only 100,000 pounds against 500,000 last year. Har nett : Very 
little frnit. Burke: Apples nearly a failure ; peaches never fail—a full crop of delicious 
fruit. Princess Anne: A farmer sold $585 worth of apples from 27 trees. Northampton: 
Fruit-crop short. 
GrorGIA.— Taylor: All grapes, except the Scuppernong, rotting and rusting; peaches 
rotting. Gwinnett: No apples or peaches, except in a few localities, and those quite in- 
aatt i? Walton: Peaches rotted badly. Whitefield: Peaches and apples have dropped 
off badly. 
FiLoripa.— Manatee: Oranges 5 per cent. less than last year on account of heavy 
> Tains. 
ALABAMA.—St. Clair: Peaches not good; apples rotting. Blount: Excellent crop of 
apples; peaches inferior in quantity and quality. Geneva : Fruit-crops poor. Cal- 
houn: Fruit almost an entire failure. 
Lovutsiana.—Richland: Pears fine; early varieties destroyed by frosts : some blight; 
Bartletts unusually fine. 
Trxas.— Victoria: Heavy crop-of fine peaches; grapes excellent; many vines just 
coming into bearing. Polk: Fruit anentirefailure. Uvalde: Fruits largely destroyed 
by frost. Titus: Injured by storms and frost, but of superior quality. Atascosa: Peaches 
,destroyed by grasshoppers. Austin: Peaches of larger size than usual, but greatly in- 
jured by worins and rains. 
ARKANSAS.— Arkansas: Apples and peaches rotting and falling off; pears excellent. 
Marion: Apples and peaches winter-killed. Washington : Grapes mildewed. 
TENNESSEE.— Decatur: Fruits an entire failure. Smith: Apples, peaches, and grapes 
nearly a failure. Greene: Apples a failure; a few good peach-crops. Coffee: Fruit 
destroyed by spring frosts. Haywood : Apples destroyed by caterpillars. 
West VirGrnra.— Mercer : Apples and peaches scarce. Pleasant: Grapes rotting 
badly. Pocahontas: Peaches almost a failure. Brooke: Apple-trees injtiired by the borer ; 
grapes by dry-rot. Nicholas: No apples or peaches. Boone: The few peaches that 
escaped winter frosts have dropped off; apples affected with bitter-rot are falling off. 
Kentucky.—Jefferson: Apples good } pears small crop, trees much blighted ; peaches 
few and imperfect; grapes good in some localities and a failure in others. Nicholas: 
