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evening pollen seems to have fallen from the Cheney blossoms, and 

 some predict that they will bear no fruit this year. 



May 1st. Frost this morning, a few blossoms are open upon the 

 transcendent crabs. 



May 2d. Clear frosty morning. Bloom is beginning to show 

 upon the Pride of Minneapolis, and other crabs. 



May 3d. Frost this morning, getting warmer through the day. 

 The Duchess bloom are opening. All varieties of plums are to-day 

 in their fullest bloom and for the first time bees and small flies are 

 plenty, and working in the blossoms, so there is a good prospect 

 of their being fertilized. 



May 4th. No perceptible frost, warm. Some strawberries be- 

 ginning to bloom. 



May 5th. Warm, very windy. All varieties of apples are com- 

 ing into bloom. The petals are falling from the plums and crab 

 apples are at their best. 



May 6th. Warm, with high wind. 



May 7th. Warm with strong wind. Crab apples Duchess, Weal- 

 thy, Tetofsky, Haas, and most other varieties of apples are at their 

 best. Choke cherries in bloom and strawberries blooming freely. 

 Hail storm this p. m. 



May 8th, Warm with high wind. 



May 14th. Some wild grapes in bloom also black cap raspberries. 



May 16th. Dewberries commencing to bloom. 



May 19th. Blackberries commencing to bloom. 



May 21st and 22d. Hard frosts. 



May 30th Frost this morning, a clear cold day. 



May 31st. Pick first ripe wild strawberries. 



June 5th. A few of Downer's Prolific strawberries are ripe, 

 blackberries in full bloom. 



June 11th. A few Concord grapes in bloom. 



June 12th. Concord and Worden grapes blooming freely. 



June 18th. Delaware grapes coming into bloom. 



Aug. 16th. Delaware and Worden grapes beginning to color. 



Aug. 22d. Concord grapes beginning to color. 



Sept. 5th. Commenced marketing Delaware, Worden and Con- 

 cord grapes to-day. 



REMARKS. 



By comparing the above with notes of 1888 it will be observed 

 that trees and fruit plants commenced opening their bloom from 

 20 to 25 days earlier in '89 than in '88. The advance from com- 

 mencement to full bloom was a little slower. The marketing of 

 strawberries began some 20 days earlier, and grapes 10 days and 

 they were more thoroughly ripe. 



The strawberry crop ranged from a total failure in some instances 

 to a half crop. This is supposed to be the result of late frosts. 

 Currants were not an average crop and the bunches. looked ragged 

 and short of berries. Raspberries gave the largest and best crop 

 for many years. 



Plums— The one variety that bloomed first matured no fruit. 

 The DeSoto and Rollingstone yielded an immense crop, and the 



