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May 25th. All plums are in full bloom and promising for a full 

 crop of fruit. Duchess, Tetofsky and Whitney No. 20 crab are 

 showing some bloom. Cloudy most of the day. 



May 26th. Open bloom is fast increasing upon Duchess, Te- 

 tofsky and the Siberians, and bloom is showing a little upon the 

 Wealthy and some New Eussians, and have commenced to fade 

 upon the Cheney plum. Up to this time have not noticed any 

 bees and but very few insects working upon the bloom. Fore- 

 noon clear. Afternoon cloudy, with light rain. 



May 27th. The bloom is falling off the Cheney plum and some 

 flowers are open upon the Haas and other varieties of apples. 

 Has rained steadily until noon since day before yesterday. 



May 28th. The Duchess and Tetofsky and Siberian apples are 

 about in the fullest bloom and the petals are fast falling from all 

 plums. The ground is white with them. 



May 29th. McMahan White apples and choke cherries are 

 coming into bloom. Weather fair, but colder. 



May 30th. The bloom of the apple trees is now at its fallesb 

 and petals from the earliest flowers are beginning to fall. Have 

 rain in the forenoon and the thermometer indicates freezing. 



June 2d. • Frost this morning and colder. Apple bloom is 

 holding on well. 



June 4th. Warm and fair. The bloom has pretty much fallen 

 from the fruit trees. There are some bees and multitudes of 

 small flies and other insects swarming about the remaining flow- 

 ers. 



June 8th. Yery warm, mostly clear day. The Windom dew- 

 berries are showing some bloom. Examination shows that the 

 .plum crop will be pretty much a failure. The fertilization has 

 apparently been imperfect and the fruit that has set does not 

 have a healthy appearance. 



June 11th. Snyder blackberries are showing some bloom, 

 also blackcap raspberries. 



Plums are presenting a singular appearance. Some varieties 

 have the appearance of being loaded with fruit nearly full grown; 

 an examination shows them to be like green puff balls. Cheney, 

 Le Due, and Eollingstone appear to be the worst affected; some 

 of the poorest wild varieties and latest bloomers the least. 

 What is the cause of it? Some say the frost of June 2d. 



June 13th. Blackberries are in full bloom. 



June 15th. Wild grapes are in bloom. Some wild straw- 

 berries are ripe. Warm, growing weather. 



