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Very little bloom of any kind. Lycoming : Poor prospect. Laicrcnce : Frost very de- 

 structive. 



Delaware. — Sussex : Peaches g-reatly injured. 



Maryland. — Cnhcrt : Fruit prospect improving. Dorchester: Apple-tre^s loaded 

 with fruit. If'icornico : Fruit injured severely by frost. Baltimore : Peaches a short 

 crop ; other fruits medium. 



Virginia. — Amelia: All the peaches and many apples killed in the April cold snap. 

 Hisltland: A few peaches but no apples. Smyth: Early fruits fatally frosted. Augusta: 

 Nearly all killed. Bedford : Frost killed all the peaches and most of the apples. Gooch- 

 •land: Most of the fruit, including all the peaches, killed. Spotfsylvania: Apples half 

 crop ; peaches one-eighth. Mccklenlmrgh : Few apples and no peaches. Prince Edward : 

 All the peaches and most of the apples destroyed. Lancaster : All fruits injured by winter- 

 cold and spring-frosts. Louisa : Bloom very abundant, but almost all killed except ■winter- 

 apples. Ureenvilh : A few apples left; no other fruit. Chesterfield: Apples generally 

 frosted ; Wine Sap and Fallawater have most successfully resisted the cold and are showing 

 good crops ; very few peaches. Craig : Apples and peaches all killed by the April freeze. 

 Clarke : Apple-bloom average, but the fruitage is 40 per cent. less. Charles City : Fruit 

 mostly destroyed. Sagtthampton : All killed. Henrico : Fruit very scarce ; two-thirds 

 of the vine-shoots killed. King Georae : Extraordinary bloom of dewberries and black- 

 berries. Dinwiddie : Frost swept four-fifths of the crop of apples ; other kinds swept clean. 

 James City : Few apples or peaches. Elizabeth City : April cold very destructive. King 

 William: Mostly destroyed. Princess Anne: All fruits badly damaged. Bland: Mostly 

 killed. Ne:son : Mostly destroyed. Patrick : Peaches mostly destroyed. Washington : 

 Apples mostly killed ; no peaches. Pittsylvania : Killed. Page : Nearly all killed. 

 Campbell : A few apples, no peaches. Sussex : Cold snap killed most of the apples and all 

 the peaches. Tazewell : Freeze of April killed the fruit, leaving a half crop of apples. King: 

 and Queen : Damage by cold, but improving. Lee : Fruit a failure. 



North Carolina.— Far/ii?* ; Most of the peaches killed; about a third of a crop of 

 apples. Wilson : Fine bloom of apples and peaches nearly or quite all killed. Edgecombe : 

 Fine prospect for apples and peaches nearly ruined by April 0-ost. Burke : Apples and 

 .peaches mostly killed ; there will be some fruit in orchards protected by timber from the 

 western winds. Person : Apples and peaches frost-killed. Alamance : Fruit a failure. 

 Make : Fruit almost destroyed by frost. Camden : Except plums, fruit is mostly cut off. 

 Franklin : April frosts destroyed all the peaches and most of the apples. Columbus : No 

 fruit of any kind. Ashe: Fruit mostly killed. Gates: Fruit all killed. Caswell: Peaches 

 entirely failed ; a third of a crop of apples. Surrey : Apples badly injured by frost ; peaches 

 a total failure. Transylvania : Peaches all killed by frost in April ; apples escaped, not 

 being in bloom. McDoicell : Peach and apple bloom 10 per cent, above average and 50 per 

 cent, above last year. Caldwell : Many apples and nearly all the peaches killed by April 

 frosts and cold weather. Yancey : Apples injured and nearly all the peaches killed by the 

 freeze of April 13. Hertford: Fruit mostly cut off; grapes doing very well. Montgomery: 

 Fruit mostly killed. Bladen : All fruit frost killed. Anson : Peach and apple bloom very 

 abundant, but the fruitage mostly frost-killed. 



South Carolina. — Darlington : Peaches, apples, and pears frost-killed ; small fruits 

 good. Marion : Apples and peaches mostly destroyed, Lexington : Apples and peaches 

 mostly failed. Laurens : April frosts very destructive, Richland : A few peaches ; no ap- 

 ples ; grapes killed, but a second crop has appeared. Fairfield: Apples badly injured by 

 frost : peaches mostly killed. Greenville ; Frost left very little. Orangeburgh : Many apple- 

 trees died from some cause ; peaches frosted. 



Florida. — Santa Rosa : Fruit-blooms injured by extremes of heat and cold. Columbia : 

 Peaches frosted and shedding ; half-crop. Jackson : Peaches fully up to last year. 



Georgia. — Morgan : Late frosts cut off the fruit. Carroll : Apples and peaches frost-killed. 

 Clayton: Apple prospect poor ; plenty of peaches. Whitfield: Apples and peaches largely 

 frost-killed. Gwinnett: Prospect for peaches the best for ten years; apple-crop short. 

 Fannin: The late freeze killed many apples and all the peaches. Gordon: Fruit destroyed 

 by late frosts. 



Alabama. — Perry: Peach-crop unusually good. Calhoun: Apples mostly failed; three- 

 fourths of a peach-crop. Madison : Apples and peaches frost-killed. Livingston : All fruits 

 killed. DeKalb : Greatly injured by frost. Montgomery: Apples and peaches bloomed well : 

 fruitage healthy, but apples not so great in quantity as usual ; strawberries a full crop. 

 Marion : Apples thin on the trees but large ; peaches plenty in high lands but frost-killed on 

 lowlands. Walker i Nearly all frost-killed. 



Mlssis.SlPPl. — Holmes : Peaches bloomed abundantly, but rains, frost, blight, and worms 

 injured the crops greatly. Kemper : Fruit a comparative failure. Noxubee : Scarce and 

 small. Smith: Apples and peaches a full average in spite of the late cold weather. JFayne : 

 Fruit will not be as good as last year, except in a few localities. If the Early Beatrice prove 

 to be as prolific a bearer as the Hale's Early, it will be the most valuable market-fruit of our 

 section. Amite : Peach and apple crops fine ; small fruits doing well. Pike : Peaches and 

 apples very fine. 



