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the best crop ever known to failure from frost. In Michigan favorable 

 reports greatly predominate. In the Ohio Valley, Missouri, and Kansas, 

 the frost which killed ijeaches also injured the apples greatly. 



The pear crop, comparatively limited in area and quantity as it always 

 is, promises to average quite favorably with former years. Some cor- 

 respondents claim that the September gale on the New England coast 

 facilitated fruiting ; and one instance is given of a pear tree in Bristol, 

 Massachusetts, which was nearly torn up by the roots, and bloomed in 

 the spring profusely, and is maturing a fine crop of fruit. In parts of 

 Pennsylvania pear blossoms were less abundant than the bloom of other 

 fruits. In Luzerne County pear orchards are rapidly increasing, and 

 this fruit is becoming a staple. Pears are a failure in St. Clair County, 

 Michigan, while apples will be abundant. 



The small fruits have been comparatively abundant. Immense quan- 

 tities were sent to Chicago and other cities from Southern Illinois, and 

 very low prices were reached. The San Francisco market was very 

 abundantly supplied; twenty tons per day were sent from one county, 

 Contra Costa, and sold at eight to twelve cents per quart at retail. In 

 Washington and Baltimore similar rates prevailed in the height of the 

 season. 



Tahle showing the condition of the crops, ^-c, on the lat day of June, 1870. 



