50 ANNUAL REPORT. 
ms Raspberries. 
This fine fruit is not receiving much attention. The Doolittle Black Cap, 
although somewhat injured by the previous winter, produced an average 
crop, and the fruit was of first quality. The Reds were a failure. 
Currants. 
Never before has there been so abundant a crop of currants raised in this 
county. They are a fruit that is growing in favor because of hardiness 
and easy cultivation. The currant worm has not yet troubled us. 
Blackberries. 
Blackberries are not cultivated to any great extent, and the native wild 
are not doing sufficiently well to merit notice. 
Cherries. 
But few cherries are grown. Ihe common Morellos are the only variety 
any ways reliable. Crop less than averag@, mostly taken by birds. 
Plums. 
No tame plums fruited, and the trees seldom survive to come to a bear- 
ing age. The native produces an abundant crop of fruit. Some attention 
is being paid to the cultivation of some of the best varieties. Good plums 
are in demand in the markets at fair prices. The Desoto is being tried, 
and promises well. Doubtless the coming plum will be a seedling raised 
from the best native wild. [And why not? In America the greatest men 
have come from the ranks of the toiling masses. } 
Grapes. 
For the perfect development of this valuable fruit the season was unfa- 
vorable. With such weather as we usually have in August and September 
the crop would have been immense; but with the several weeks that we 
had of cool, cloudy and wet weather, the ripening progressed slowly, and 
the early frosts ruined a large proportion of the crop; and I have fears 
that with most varieties the wood has not matured sufficiently to endure 
this winter. The Concord is most extensively grown, and so far has proved 
to be the best grape for the people. 
New Fruits. 
I am not aware that any new fruits of special merit have been brought 
out during the last year. 
Vegetables. 
Vegetable gardens have done remarkably well, and I have never known 
a season in which veegtables of all kinds were better or more plentiful. 
