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one dollar and fifty cents per bushel. The largest variety we 

 fruited was the Bursota. It is promising. Altogether we had 

 about 150 bushels of plums. 



Our strawberry plantations are now in a promising condition 

 for a crop next season. The early part of summer was very hot 

 and dry, but the last half of August, all of September and October 

 was fine growing weather for them. The strawberry worm re- 

 tarded the growth of the plants early in the season. These worms 

 have bothered us several seasons during the past fifteen years, but 

 only in those seasons when either by mulching or snows the plants 

 were covered early in autumn. 



This was an off season for the apple and crab. We fruited 

 about eighty-five varieties, and had about 250 bushels of the fruit. 

 We had a little blight early in July that affected about all varieties 

 that were sheltered by trees on the south and west, but no serious 

 damage was done, and it only lasted a few days. 



The foliage of the trees was better than for several years past, 

 and the leafhopper was correspondingly less. 



The codling moth has not yet got a foothold in our orchard, but 

 the apple scab was noticeable in many parts of it. 



The Yellow Transparent was the earliest to ripen, followed 

 closely by the White Astrachan, Tetofsky, Champagne Pippin, 

 Juice White and others. The Blushed Calville fruited for the first 

 time; the fruit does not ripen early enough to be classed among 

 the extra early varieties and is rather small to compete in the mar- 

 kets with the Duchess. Our main crop consisted of the Wealthy, 

 Duchess and Hibernal, and from the ready sales of the Hibernal 

 for a cooking apple I am more than ever impressed with its value 

 for this section. 



Of good sweet apples we have the Champagne Pippin, which is 

 promising as an extra early, good eating apple, and Reipka Reis- 

 laye, or Sweet Reipka, which is of the season of the Wealthy or a 

 little earlier. The Sweet Russet is also in demand as a good eat- 

 ing hybrid. 



Of other than sweet apples the following have proved to be of 

 excellent quality for eating out of hand: Utters, Gideon, Peerless, 

 Peter, Wealthy, Rollin's Pippin. 



Our largest varieties were Patten Greening, McMahon White, 

 Little Hat and Antonovka. 



Of the late keepers the Malinda is so far in the lead, and the 

 fruit does not blow off the trees. 



The Cross apple is a success, but we have not tried keeping 

 them. Grandmother and Skalanka Bogdanoff, as I have them 



