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Clearfield : Very few apples, and no peaches. York : Grapes suffering from too much 

 wet. Beaver: Fruit a failure. Bucks: Early fruit, almost a failure; "Smith's cider" 

 the only fall apple. Fayette : Very large yield. Craivford : Neither apples nor peaches ;, 

 but few pears. Sullivan : Very rarely so poor a crop of apples. IFashington : Scarcely 

 any fruit except grapes. Lycoming : Very few apples. 



Dklaware. — Sussex: The almost incessant rains for the past month have rendered 

 what we had of the peach-crop worthless in market. Kent : The peach-crop abundant, 

 but of little profit to the growers. 



Maryland. — Prince George: Fruit very fine, excepting the almost worthless Halo's 

 Early peach; a full crop of grapes, but in my neighborhood, when about to ripen, the 

 skin splits and the juice exudes, ruining most of them. Dorchester : Apples and peaches 

 in abundance. Baltimore: All kinds good in quality and more abundant than was 

 expected. Wicomico : Very large crops of apples, peaches, and grapes, and, except 

 lieaches, ncA'er better in quality. 



Virginia. — King and Queen : Many apples ; no peaches and few grapes. Rockiridge : 

 Grapes have rotted very much. Scott: Apples and peaches almost a failure, and grapes 

 a short crop. Westmoreland : Peaches have rotted on the tree; grapes injured by the 

 long rains. Page: Entite failure, except grapes. Pittsylvania: Grapes rotting. Cum- 

 berland: Apples falling from the trees in great quantities. Madison: Apples of good 

 quality, but the crop very small; peaches of fair quality, but scarce; grapes abundant 

 and excellent. Avielia : The few apples left by the frosts of April are in most excel- 

 lent condition ; no peaches; grapes have suii^ered from wet. Bedford: Killed by frost, 

 except grapes, which are rotting badly. Charles : Aj)ples are much injured, and the 

 peaches all killed by frost. Henrico : The grape-croj) will be seriously injured by the 

 wet. Highlatid : Apples and peaches almost a failure. 



North Carolina. — Mecklenburg: Apples and peaches a failure; grapes injured by 

 rain. Transylvania : Apples are doing well. Wilson : The Scuppernong and the Con- 

 cord grapes are doing very well, especially the former. Anson : Apples and peaches 

 a total failure. Bladen : Complete failure in all kinds except grapes. Caldwell : 

 Peaches a full crop in some parts and a total failure in others. Madison : Cultivated 

 grapes are a success, and the wild varieties more plenteous than for many years. 



South Carolina. — Lexington : Scuppernong grapes are fully up to average in quan- 

 tity and quality. Clarenden : Grapes badly rotted, especially small varieties. 



Georgia. — Dooly: Apples destroyed by freeze in April. Grenada: Fruit-crop very 

 abundant; more so than for years. Walton: Apples failing from the trees, and apples 

 and peaches both failures near the water. 



Florida. — Gadsden: The crop of Scuppernong grapes is very fine. 



Alabama. — Greene: The fruit-crop all it could be under the most favorable circum- 

 stances. Montgomery : Apples, peaches, and grapes have done well. Randolph : Apples 

 scarce ; white peaches abundant ; grapes plentiful and fine. 



Mississippi. — Lafayette : Our fruit-crop is very large. De Soto : Have sold several 

 thousand dollars' worth of apples, peaches, pears, and grapes. 



Louisi-iJfA. — Union : All kinds have done well. 



Texas. — Dallas: Fine; particularly peaches. Somervell: Peaches an abundant 

 crop. Bed River : All kinds iu great abundance, and of extra good quality. Tyler : 

 Peaches and figs abundant. 



Arkansas. — Garland: Peaches and grapes have done well, better than for five 

 years. Early apples did well, but late will fall short. Stone : All kinds greatly dam- 

 aged by the late frosts; not over half a crop. Arkansas : All kinds abundant. Wash- 

 ington : About half a crop of apples and peaches ; good in quality. Montgomery : Fruit 

 plenty ; apples fair and large. Fulton : A fair crop of all kinds, but apples in some 

 orchards affected with " speck rotting." 



Tennessee. — Lincoln : Apples and- peaches almost a failure. Sevier : A few apples 

 but no peaches. Morgan: Grapes badly injured by continuous rains from June to the 

 11th of August. Greene : Apples few ; peaches fewer. Grapes a large crop, but rotted 

 to some extent. Dickson : Almost a failure of all kinds except grapes and plums. 

 Sequatchie : Apples rotting before ripening. 



West Virginia. — Grant : Grapes have suffered extremely from rot. Jackson : No 

 apples and peaches. Brooke : Apples, pears, and peaches a failure ; grapes large and 

 fine, but some complaint of rot. Braxton : No fruit. Summers : Apple and iieach 

 crops failures. 



Kentucky. — Montgomery: Apple and peach crop an entire failure. Benton: Injured 

 by heavy rains. Callaway : The few peaches on the trees nearly all dropped off", and 

 apples are rotting on the trees. 



Ohio. — Ross : A failure, except grapes, which are a fair yield in some localities, but 

 a total failure in others from freeze in April and from mildew. Ashland: No apples or 

 peaches. Geauga: Apples and peaches a failure ; grapes a fair crop. Lucas: Apples 

 from one-third to one-half a crop in good condition. Mahoning : Grapes nearly a fail- 

 ure, owing to rot. Athens : Apples and peaches an entire failure. Grapes greatly in- 

 jured by frost, wet, and drought. 



