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apples or peaches ; grapes looking well though reduced by the April cold snap. Sussex: 

 Few apples ; uo peaches or cherries ; grapes very line. Wyihe : No peaches or apples. 

 Page : Peaches very few. Cumberland : Fruit mostly destroyed by frost in April ; a 

 third of a crop of apples. Fairfax : All fruits abundant. Highland : Apples failed ; 

 few peaches. Iloanoke : No fruit of any kind. 



NoKTii Caeolixa. — Bohe^on : Apples and peaches entirely destroyed. Choican : Ap- 

 ples and peaches failed. I'amUco : Apples and peaches cut off by frosts. Mitchell : 

 Grape bloom abundant. Madison : Apples and peaches mostly killed. Anson : Apples 

 and peaches almost an entire failure. Perquimans : Failure. Caswell : Peache§ an 

 entire failure. Alainance : No peaches ; few apples. Davie: Apples and peaches nearly 

 destroyed by late frosts. Columbus: No fruit except grapes and blackberries. Greene: 

 Apples and peaches a total failure. Hertford : No apples or peaches. Moore : No fruit 

 except berries and small grapes. iSlanly : The new strawberry, "Monarch of the 

 West," is uneqnaled for fruitfulness, great size, and sweetness. Onslow : Peaches and 

 apples a total failure. Buncombe : Apples and peaches mostly frost-killed ; strawber- 

 ries abundant. Jon4JS : Apples and peaches cut otf by late frosts. 



South Carolina. — Colleton : Peaches scarce. Darlington : Fruit all frosted excei)t 

 Scuppernong grapes. 



Georgia. — Troup : Grapes never better. Doohj : Mostly killed. Gwinnett : Peach 

 and grape crops the best for years. Upson : Apples, peaches, grapes, and strawberries 

 doing well, fl'alton : Fruit-crop short. 



Florii^a. — Manatee : Oranges, limes, and lemons larger for the season than ever before 

 known. Columbia: Peaches still dropping. Orange: Orange-calture increasing; set- 

 tlers coming in and planting trees by the thousand. 



Alabama. — Montgomery : All fruits fine in yield and quality ; Early Beatrice peaches 

 ripened for shipment May 28; Early Rivers and Louise were ready from 1st to 5th of 

 June ; Hale's Early and Tillotson's Early, June 10 to If). The last-named came in 

 ten days later than in 1871. Calhoun : Fruit has not done well. Marshall : Apples and 

 peaches almost an entire failure; grapes and strawberries fine. Lawrence: Peaches 

 and grapes injured by late frosts. Shdby : Apples and peaches failed through frost. 

 Covington : Scuppernong never fails. 



Mississippi. — Tishomingo : Apples and peaches failed. Madison : Pears excellent ; 

 50 per cent, over average. Hinds : Fruit-crop fine but no market ; we will lose 

 $50,000 this year by failure of the railroads to give sufBcient facilities; our railroads 

 do not foster local interests. Smith : Grapes rotted badly ; vines heavy loaded. 



Louisiana. — Eaet Baton Eouge : Peach-crop, which was full and promising, is rotting 

 badly ; grapes could not be more promising. Jackson : Fruits abundant and very fine. 



Texas. — Cherokee : Last year nearly three-fourths of the peach-trees bloomed the 

 second time, but a Jaunary frost killed some, and others are dying. Upshur: All sorts 

 a small yield. Coryell: Peaches under average from cold ; grapes tine. Collin : Teaches 

 a short crop. Polk : Peaches plenty, and of fair variety. WilUamson : Apples fine and 

 large; peaches short, but of superior quality; plums, large crop of superior fruit. 

 Titus : Apple and peach buds winter-killed. Austin : AH sorts injured except grapes. 



Arkansas. — Dorsey: Fruit abundant but tending to rot, especially bunch-grapes ; 

 Scuppernong, very fine. Howard: Apples average. 



Tennessee. — Lincoln : Fruit a failure in three-fourths of the county. Fentress : 

 Fruit badly injured bj- the April freeze. Greene: Apples and peaches very few. 

 Coffee : Fruit mostly killed by April freezes. Henry : Nearly a failure, except plums. 

 Van Buren : Fruit mostly destroj'ed by spring freezes. Williamson : Fruit seriously 

 damaged. Bradley : Small crop of fruit. Dickson : Fruit-crops mostly destroyed. 

 Bobertson : Our few apples and peaches defective and falling oft'. Grainger : Fruits 

 generally a failure. 



West Virginia. — Baleigh : No apples or peaches. Tucker : Peaches and apples an 

 entire failure, owing to late frosts. Braxton : None worthy of notice. Cabell : But few 

 apples; no peaches. Grant: Almost an entire failure; a few late winter, Jackson: 

 Apple-crop light on account of frost, and a portion now falling oft" ; no peaches. Marion : 

 Applies killed by frost in April. Pocahontas : Apples and peaches not worth speaking 

 of. Mineral : Less than lor many years. IJ'ood : Killed. Bandolph : Apples and 

 peaches all killed ; grapes, ditto. Pendleton: All kinds destroyed by late frost in April. 

 Nicholas : All destroyed by frost in April. Mercer : Less than has been known for years. 

 Hancock: Nearly a total failure. Gilmer: An entire failure. Barbour: Applies and 

 peaches all killed ; grapes, good prospect. Harrison : Apjiles and peaches an entire 

 failure. Mason : Fruit of all descriptions almost an entire failure. 



Kentucky. — Trimble: None, save blackberries ; they are fine. Jefferson: None, save 

 small fruits. Boyle : Apple and peach crops a perfect failure. Clinton : Apple and 

 peach crops small, but look well. Lincoln : Apples and peaches an entire failure. 

 S2)encer : All destroyed by frost in April. Scott ; Nearly all killed in April. Graves : 

 Scarce, but looking well. Gallatin : A complete failure of all kinds. Callaway : Scarce 

 and inferior. Breckinridge: Less than half a croii, but in good condition. Anderson: 



