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finely ; the dryness of the soil has operated favorably: good cultivation has been re- 
paid in the apple-crop; pears abundant and good. Franklin: Apples worth $4 per 
barrel. Norfolk: Apples a fourth of a crop ; pears a larger crop than for several years. 
Connecticut.—Windham: Apples very scarce; know of no orchard producing & 
tenth part of a crop; pear-crop never better. ‘ 
New York.— Yates : Good yields of apples in some quarters; pears not well matured, 
though above average in quantity. Seneca: Apple-crop small; pear-crop large. Tioga : 
Grapes good, but short; apples ditto; pears good. rie: Apples well harvested and 
closely sold up at $1.50 to $2 per barrel. Columbia : Apples scarce and poor. Cattaraugus : 
Apples frozen on the trees. Albany: Grapes and pears fine. Ontario: Fruits well 
ripened. Wyoming: Grapes ripened well; apples good, but short; pears plenty, it 
being the bearing season. 
New JERSEY.—Hudson: Grapes injured by drought; apples, hardly a half crop; 
pears more abundant than usual, the late varieties being the best. Gloucester : Com- 
plaints that fruit does not keep well. ‘Varren: Apples short. 
PENNSYLVANIA.— Bucks : Apples alight crop, except a local variety, Smith’s Cider, 
which has greatly enlarged the yield. Jefferson: Such apples as were not blown off 
are generally sound. Armstrong: Apples fell oft badly, yielding a short winter 
supply. Northampton: Apples few; picked but 10 barrels where last year I got 133; 
trees badly winter-killed. Cumberland: Grapes, apples, and pears almost a failure. 
Northumberland: Apples about one-tenth of an average; pears three-fourths; trees 
secured to stand winter better than any other fruit ; grapes, one-tenth average. 
DELAWARE.—Kent : Grapes never finer. 
MaryLanp.—-Dorchester : Grape-culture reliable and profitable. Baltimore: Fruit 
not so abundant as last year; grapes did better than other kinds. 
VirGinia.— Warren : Grape-crop fine; culture increasing. Bland: Apples killed by 
frost whenin bloom. Madison: Apples good and abundant in the mountainous region of 
the county. King and Queen: Grapes, apples, and pears did not fulfill their early prom- 
ise. Pittsylvania : Many pear-trees killed by blight. Orange: Apple crop fair, though 
drought caused many to fall. Northumberland: Apples frosted in April; some have 
secured second crops, in other cases the third set of blossoms have appeared. Page: 
Apples better than for three years. Goochland: Apples and pears good crops. <Acco- 
mac: Our usual shipment of dried-peaches amounts to about $150,000 per annum ; this 
year but one-fourth of that amount. Cumberland: Grapes and peaches injured by ex- 
cessive rains; apples hold their own. Jing George: Apples not abundant; pears 
scarce; grapes defective, the Catawba alone proving successful. Highland: Apple- 
crop slender. Floyd: Fruit a failure through spring frosts ; cranberries grew spontane- 
cusly in some places at the rate of 5 barrels per acre. Greenville: Apple-crop small; 
matured too early. Patrick: Cranberries would do well. Dinwiddie: Apples injured 
by spring frosts; pears 5 per cent. better than last year. 
NortH Caroina.— Person: Half crop of inferior quality. Chowan: Grapes short ; 
applesalmost none. Craven: Fruit materially damaged by cold spring and excessive 
rains. McDowell: Apple-crop short. Ashe: Cranberry-crop better than usual in quantity 
and quality. Martin: Grapes a failure; apples short; native pears above average. 
Sourm Canorina.— Lexington: Fruit-crop generally a failure. 
GEORGIA.—Towns: Apples and peaches almost entirely failed. Marion: Apples, 
grapes, and pears below average; ravaged by insects. Whitfield: Grapes a full aver- 
age and fine; apples generally injured by cureulio or some other insect. Johnson: 
Fruit prematurely shed. ‘ 
FLorma.—Manatee: Orange-trees badly injured and 25 per cent. of the fruit fallen 
off. Putnam: Lemons average; olive does well. 
MississipPl.—Blight very destructive to several varieties of pears, especially Le 
Curé, Belle Lucrative, Bartlett, &c.; apples short. 
Texas.—Hamilton: Fruit of all kinds a failure, even the hardy Mustang grape. 
Titus : Apple and pear culture increasing. Victoria: Grape-crop small but excellent ; 
pears a new crop, but of fine flavor. Burnet: All fruits frost killed in the spring. 
ARKANSAS.—Sebastian : Fruit destroyed by late spring frosts. Boone: Fruit largely 
destroyed by spring frosts; Concord grapes did well, but no others. 
TENNESSEE.— Dickson : Apples and pears destroyed by spring frosts. Hickman: Ap- 
ples and peaches almost a total failure. Grainger: Poor fruit year. Meigs: Fruit 
almost an entire failure through late spring frosts. Obion: Almost a failure. Wilson: 
Grapes, apples, and pears damaged by spring frosts; almost a failure in low lands. 
Blount: Apples a failure; pears none. De Kalb: Fruit a failure. Greene: Apples a 
blank failure. Marion: All fruits killed by late frosts. Putnam: Grapes nearly all 
fell off. Bradley: Fruit almost a total failure. 
West Vircinta.—Mercer: Winter apples very scarce. Jefferson: Apples fair. 
Braxton: Apples below average. Monongalia: Apples short and not keeping well. 
Harrison: Apples very defective; more than half worm-eaten; winter apples will not 
keep well. 
KENTUCKY.—Hardin : Grapes a failure; apples a fourth of a crop and full of worms. 
