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White Grape. A g-ood white variety. Not a g-ood market berry on 

 account of its color. Very large and moderately productive. 



La Versailles. Very productive; late; very long- branches. People 

 do not seem to like its flavor, 



Stewart. The best market currant. Very productive; berries of 

 good size. 



Fay. Did much better than in '92; berries largest of all currants, 

 bvit not as mauy quarts to the acre as of other varieties. 



Victoria. Quite productive, but berries very sinall. 



Lee's ProliGc. Produced a good crop of large berries. Not sal- 

 able, except to Englishmen, who seem to like it very well. 



GOOSEBERRY. 



Houghton. Fruit much knocked off by the hail; still j'ielded quite 

 a crop. Not much sale for gooseberries here. 



BLACKBERRIES. 



Erie. Berries did not ripen; all dried up. 



Crystal White. Did not bear. Have had it three years without 

 seeing a berry on it. 



Ancient Briton. Many berries dried up; a few of them got ripe, 

 but were small. Where grown in the shade, thej^ were very large 

 and productive, which seems to indicate that they want to be grown 

 in partial shade in order to come to perfection. 



Lucretia Dewberry. Berries all imperfect, except where shaded. 

 Will try shading- next year. 



SAND CHERRIES. 



I have several hundred seedlings; only about ten of them fruited 

 this year, all of which were inferior to their parents. 



PLUMS. 



The Desota, Cheney and the Rockford were well set with fruit, but 

 the hail knocked off everything except two Rockfords. They were 

 good plums, about 1^^ in. long, but they are not a blue plum, as ad- 

 vertised in nurserymen's catalogues. They are of a deej) red color 

 with a bluish bloom. 



APPLES. 



I did not get an apple on account of the hail. The apple trees 

 planted in 1892 are in very good condition, all of them, but the Ones 

 I watered in the fall of 1892 made one to two feet more of new wood 

 than the others. 



The apples received this spring (1893) were somewhat backward in 

 growing this summer, and in August, after the heavy rains broke 

 the season of droughts, they started a new growth, and the wood is 

 poorly ripened, and I think I must box them all up for winter, to 

 save them. 



