142 ANNUAL REPORT 



June 19th. Concord grapes are just commencing to bloom. 

 Pick first ripe strawberries. 



June 20th. Some flowers are open on the Delaware grapes, 

 other varieties are coming on rapidly. Weather continues warm 

 and the ground is wet so that vegetation is pushing rapidly. 



July 20th. Blackcap raspberries are getting ripe. • 



August 27th. Worden and Moore's early grapes are commenc- 

 ing to color. 



August 29th. Concord and Delaware grajDCS are beginning to 

 color a little upon some hills. 



September 10th. The Moore's early and Worden grapes are 

 so nearly ripe that a portion of them could be gathered for mar- 

 ket. The first ripening of the Concord and Delaware will be 

 but two or three days later, but the weight of the crop is so far 

 from ripe that we have but little hopes of saving it. 



September 15th. Sent first picking of Worden grapes to mar- 

 ket. 



September 19th. Commence marketing Concord and Delaware 

 grapes. 



In comparing the season of blooming with 1887, I find that in 

 1888 the time in blooming of Juneberry, plums and cherries will 

 average about 20 days later. Transcendent crab, Duchess, Tetof- 

 sky, and Wealthy apples from 19 to 21 days later, blackberries 

 and blackcap raspberries 27 days later, and Concord grapes 

 25 days later. I have no statistics to show the difference 

 In the period but think that it did not vary much from the 

 difference in time of blooming. 



RESULTS. 



Fruit of the plums and Siberian. crabs did not appear to set 

 as well as usual; berries of all kinds, grapes, Duchess, Wealthy, 

 and Tetofsky apples better than usual. On low, undrained 

 grounds the apples dropped badly during the latter part of June, 

 but on elevated and dry grounds there was generally a good crop 

 of the Duchess, Wealthy, and Tetofsky apples. Siberians and 

 McMahan White were a light crop. Strawberries, raspberries, 

 and blackberries were a good crop. Grapes were an immense 

 crop, but in most instances failed to fully ripen. But very few 

 plums came to maturity. The De Soto did the best. The season 

 was noted for its cold and backward spring, excessive wet sum- 

 mer and dry fall. All fruits retained their bloom considerable 

 longer than last year. 



