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point the amateur if he succeeds iu getting the true berry. There 

 have been so many plants sent out that were not the Lucretia 

 that accounts for many failures. 



Currants did not do so well as at other times, the wet weather 

 causing the leaves to droj) prematurely, so the fruit did not de- 

 velop or ripen so well as in previous years. The croj) was large 

 and prices ran very low, except Fay's, which were wonderful in 

 size and quantity. They brought on the market five dollars per 

 bushel, while others were selling from two dollars and a half to 

 three dollars. I think they are going to be a success, and prices 

 for the plants will be maintained. 



In strawberries we had a bountiful crop; season very favor- 

 able; prices run very low, so that many have plowed up their 

 strawberry plantations, or let them go. Jessie and Bubach, I 

 think, will prove very fair, but have not tried them long enough 

 yet to give an opinion. 



In grapes there has been only one season out of the last twenty 

 so unfavorable. A late, cold spring and a wet season, made the 

 grape crop almost a failure. What grapes were well ripened 

 brought a fair price. Moore's Early, Brighton and Delaware 

 were among the earliest and best. I have not tried any of the 

 newer varieties, of graj)es, but it seems to me it is doubtful if 

 Nature can ever produce a better variety every way, when it 

 succeeds, than the Delaware. 



EEPOET FEOM FIFTH DISTEICT. 

 By Vice President G. W. Fuller, Litchfield. 



As far as I can learn, apple trees in my section of the state are 

 reduced to the Transcendent with a few Hyslops, Beech's Sweet 

 and Minnesota. But while the last is hardy enough to stand our 

 winters pretty well it produces no fruit to amount to anything. 

 On my grounds were two trees which bore each year a medium 

 crop; a dozen others bore hardly one to each tree, and last spring 

 they were sent to the wood pile and brush heap. My last 

 Duchess was also sent in the same direction and all but two of 

 my Wealthies. These stood on the north side of evergreens, and 

 as they seemed to have some life left, I decided to give them an- 

 other chance. They tried to grow about a dozen apples between 



