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bloom; will be very full. Oxford: Showing but very little bloom, owing to ravages 
of caterpillars last year. Somerset: Have not yet blossomed. 
New Hamesuire.—Carroll : Apples will blossom well. Hillsborough : Apples promise 
avery large crop, Rockingham: Apples in full bloom, and a promise of an abundant 
crop. Cheshire: Apple-trees loaded with blossoms, 
Vermont.—Fvanklin: Not yet in bloom. Grand Isle: Just in bloom; poor pros- 
pect. 
. Massacuuserrs.—Berkshire: In bloom, and make an excellent show. 
ConNECTICUT.—Prospect of a very large crop. 
New Yor«K.— Westchester: Full of blossoms. Albany: The trees are white with blos- 
soms. /JVashington: Abundant bloom. Lewis: Just show the bud. Saratoga; The 
trees heavy-laden with bloom. Wyoming: Now in full bloom. Sullivan: Trees have 
bloomed exceedingly well. Genesee: Just in bloom, which is very full. Albany: AV 
fruit-trees covered with blossoms. Genesee: Apple-5loom very full ; no pear-blossoms ; 
small fruits promising. Seneca: Bloom good, but injured by east wind... Wayne: Bet- 
ter than average. 
New JERSEY.—Sussex: Indications of a large crop. Burlington: A great amount of 
bloom, but the young fruit is dropping off badly. Warren: Enough healthy-looking 
young apples to make a good crop, Mercer; Wonderful prospect fir all kinds of fruit. 
Camden : Small fruits promising. 3 
PENNSYLVANIA.— Bucks: Abundant bloom, and the fruit setting satisfactorily. Lycom- 
ing: Promise a full crop. Sullivan: Promise an abundant crop; never better. Indiana: 
Have set well, and promise of enormous crop. Warren: Good prospect for a full crop. 
Elk: Enormous bloom. Northampton: Promise goed. Wyoming: Best prospect for ten 
years. Armsirong: Promise good. Indiana: Crop will be enormous, especially apples 
and cherries; pears have set well. Mifflin: Prospect good. 
MARYLAND.—Caroline: Falling off.| Prince George: Promise of an abundant. crop. 
Cecil: Promise far above-average in quantity. Gloucester: Prospect of a very heavy 
crop. 
VinGInrA.—Fluvanna: A mild winter, followed by killing frosts, will make the crop 
very short. Page: Almost entirely cut off by freeze the last of April. Halifax: Fruit 
nearly all destroyed by late frosts. King George: There was ice on the morning of May 
1.. There are no peaches on the grafted trees, but many on seedlings. A promise of 
many cherries, Seckel and. Bartlett. pears and apples.. Berries promise to be plentiful. 
Floyd: Almost a failure. Elizabeth City: Cherries are abundant, and unusually good 
and eheap. Strawberries have quite glutted the local market, having sold as low as 3 
cents per quart. Grapes also promise well ; the vines look thrifty and are loaded with 
young fruit. Northampton: The good prospect for a fruit-crop was seriously damaged 
by the freeze in the latter partof April. King and Queen: The fruit-crop will be a geod . 
one. Craig: Killed by May frost. Roanoke: Fair crop. Ashe: Larger part killed. 
Scott: Very promising. Lancaster: Below average. Fairfax: Apples will be abundant. 
Pulaski: Largely frost-killed. Patrick: Half crop of apples and still falling off. No 
peaches. Carroll: Best prospect yet. Frederick: Peaches generally killed by late 
frosts. Halifax: Nearly all killed; only seedlings escaped the frost. Amelia: Frosts 
about the Ist of May, killed the few which had escaped the earlier cold. Craig: Killed 
by frost in May. Fairfax: May be half acrop. King George: The best grafted varie- 
ties killed by the frost, but the old seedlings are full of fruit. Pulaski: Killed by frost. 
Madison: Promise of half a crop. Prince Edward: Only afew. Augusta: Generally 
killed. Greenville: Cut off by late frosts. Roanoke: Nearly all killed. 
Nortu Caroitwa.— Moore: Killed by late frosts. Beaufort: Will be half acrop in 
quantity, but of superior size and quality. Gaston: None. Yancey: All killed by a 
freeze, March 22. Caswell: Almost a failure. Union: Almost destroyed. Yadkin: Fruit 
all killed by the freeze. Edgecombe: Very scarce, but doing well. Person: Nearly all 
killed. Ashe: All killed by the freeze. Richland: Entirely destroyed by the freeze. 
Orange: Almost a failure. Madison: All killed. Guilford: All killed. \ Union: Badly 
injured by frost. Yadkin: All the early apples destroyed in the bud. Alamance: Half 
a crop. Buncombe; Ail peaches and early apples killed; prospect of a good crop of 
late. Duplin: The borer doing much damage to the trees; many killed outright. 
Edgecombe: Very scarce, but doing well. _ Person: Neariy all killed. Pitt; A species 
of blight has attacked the apple-trees, appearing in the ends of the smaller branches and 
in the fruit-bearing branches generally. It threatens to destroy much of the fruit. 
Orange: Promised well, but have dropped off badly. Guilford: But very few; killed 
by frost. Lenoir: Fruit-trees loaded. Harriet : Frost killed. 
SoutH CAROninia, Chester: A fair crop on high ridges. Clarendon: Almost. all 
destroyed by the freeze in March. Insects very destructive to early branches of peach- 
trees. . Lexingion: Good, butin some cases young apples and ends of limbs are destroyed 
by insects. 
GrorGia.—Worth: All killed by the freeze in March. . Macon: The remarkably warm 
weather of mid-winter caused the buds of the apple and peach trees to swell and be- 
come tender, and then the cold in the latter part of January harmed them. The ends 
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