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Maine. — Androscoggin : Apples, a li<2;ht crop. Hancock : Grapes, badly mildewed. 



New Hampshire. — HiUshorongh : Small apple-crop. Carroll : Apple-crop good. 



Vermont. — Grand Isle : Grapes, badly mildewed. Rutland: Apples, almost a failure. 

 Franklin : Apples, almost a failure. 



Massachusetts. — Berkshire : Grapes, late and mildewed. 



Connecticut. — Windham: Apples badly damaged by worms. Litchfield: Endangered 

 by early frosts. 



New York. — Albany: Apples very poor, both ia quantity and quality. Columlna : 

 Api)les failed in the north part of the county. Rensselaer : Apples, few and falling off; 

 no peaches ; few plums. Queens : Grapes improved. Washington : Apples a half crop 

 and inferior. Warren : Good apple and peach crops ; grapes well filled. 



Pp:nnsylvania. — Tioga : Apples and pears half average ; no peaches ; grapes abund- 

 ant. Washington : Fruit crops larger, but not all of good quality. Bucks: Early apples 

 an increased yield ; peaclies well grown and promise a full crop. Luzerne : Grapes 

 wilting. Armstrong : Fruit injured by storms. 



Maryland. — Caroline : Peaches a failure, Dorchester : Peaches an entire failure ; 

 some rot in grapes, reducing the yield 30 per cent. Frederick ; Peaches rotting ; grapes 

 average. Worcester : Injured in quantity and quality by spring frosts. Wicomico : 

 Peaches scarce. 



Virginia. — Bland: Fruit greatly damaged by late frosts in the spi'iug. Patrick: No 

 peaches. Fittsglvania : Grape yield immense, but injured by the rot. Prince William: 

 Budded peaches an entire failure; unbudded yield reasonably. Rappahannock : Grapes 

 promising. Sussex : Very few apples or peaches; grapes fine and thrifty. Washington: 

 Apples and peaches very scarce. Essex: All fruit crops failed except grapes. Henrico: 

 Apples and peaches scarce and poor; grapes a half crop. Caroline: Few apples or 

 peaches. CampheU : Fruit scarce and indifferent. Chesterfield: Very few good apples ; 

 peaches a failure; grapes plenty and fine. Louisa: No fruit of any consequence. 

 Madison: No peaches and few applies. Augusta: Apples dropping badly. Page: Ap- 

 ples and peaches almost a failure. 



North Carolina. — Gaston : Fruit of all kinds abundant ; grapes especially fine. 

 Gra)tville : No fruit. Lenoir: Fruit nearly all frost killed. Wilkes : Peach crop a fail- 

 ure except on the mountains ; apples inferior. 



Georgia. — Carroll : Apples rotting ; peaches wormy. Laurens : Fruit almost a fail- 

 ure. Jackson : Peaches scarce and indifferent. Totvns : Fruit almost a failure. Wilkes : 

 Fruit inferior. 



Florida. — Jackson : Ajiplcs a partial failure ; iieaches, average ; grapes, below aver- 

 age. 



Alabama. — Calhoun : Fruit crop generally a failure. 



Mississippi. — Holmes : Fruit an entire failure ; JIadison : Fruit a failure. 



Texas. — IVilliamson : A large crop of small peaches. Marion : Fruit crop destroyed 

 by drought. Kendall: Wild fruits abundant. Dallas: Early peaches very fine ; late, 

 quite a failure. Bandera : Grapes drying up on the vines. Karnes : Peaches 10 per 

 cent, below last year. Cooke : Peaches withering on the trees. Medina : Peaches 

 small. 



Arkansas. — Franklin : All kinds badly injured by drought. Izard : Grapes did finely ; 

 the only good fruit-crop. Arkansas: Apples, rotting; peaches, better. Carroll: No 

 peaches. 



Tennessee. — Bradley : Nearly all kinds abundant and good ; grapes better than ever 

 before. Greene : Apples light ; peaches plenty, in some neighborhoods. Granger : 

 Half crop of apples ; rotting. Cabell: Apples a full average. 



West Virginia. — Moiiroe : Grapes superb. Barbour : Poaches almost a failure ; 

 apples indifferent. Doddridge: Peaches have failed for several years ; grapes rotting, 

 on account of late heavy rains. 



Kentucky. — Lewis : Largest peach crop ever raised here. Wai'ven : Fruit exceed- 

 ingly fine. 



Oiiio. — Harrison : Improved by late rains. Williams : Fifty per cent, above average ; 

 the first season in five years in which we have had over a half crop. Crawford : Peaches, 

 the best crop in twenty years. Ashland: Apples faulty; grapes, the best crop yet 

 known ; average rapidly increasing. Hancock : Peach trees breaking under their loads 

 of fruit. Ottawa : Apples a half crop. Athens : Apples, peaches, and grapes abundant 

 and fine. Adams: Late i^eaches withering on the trees. Columbiana: More peaches 

 than ever before ; five times the average of twenty years past. 



Michigan. — Kalamazoo : Apples small, wormy, and dropping. Hillsdale : Apiiles 

 blighted ; peaches plenty, but small and poor. Berrien : Apples and peaches shortened 

 by drought. Livingston ) Apples dropping ; Khode Island Greenings about the only 

 winter apples left. Calhoun: Seriously injured by drought. Wayne; Apples below 

 average ; peaches and grapes abundant. Shiaivassee : Apples injured by drought. 



Indiana. — Hamilton : Winter apples scarce and poor. Posey : Apples and jieaches 

 scarce and poor. Fountain : Peaches fine ; best for ten years ; apples almost a failure. 

 Pike : Fruit generally poor, but grapes are plenty and good. Whitley : Good crop of 

 peaches. Franklin: Apples and peaches ruined by drought ; grapes fine. 



