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bearers are good, but they ought to be planted every spring anew, 

 and as early as possible. 



It seems other fruits are not much grown in the district, 

 as only one party reported a good crop of currants and goose- 

 berries, while on the other hand another party had a poor crop. 

 One stated that huckleberries and wonderberries did well at his 

 place. I recommend the high-bush cranberries as a good bearer 

 and it should be planted more generally. 



Quite a quantity of nursery stock, namely apples, plums, 

 raspberries, strawberries and other fruit, was planted this year 

 with satisfactory results. In general blight was not reported as 

 having been very prevalent. Some, indeed, reported a little 

 blight, which they overcame by cutting out the affected branches. 

 Two, however, reported much blight in their orchards, which has 

 done a great deal of injury to their trees. 



Very little spraying is done in our district. Three parties 

 reported that they have sprayed their orchards seemingly with 

 good results. The lime sulphur, copper sulphate and Bordeaux 

 mixture were used. 



The majority of the reports indicate the trees and shrubs did 

 not suffer from last winter's cold, while a few indicated some 

 injury to fruit trees, and one said that the trees were killed by 

 frost. The conditions for wintering the trees safely are, in gen- 

 eral, very good, and no injury is expected. 



Varieties of fruits recommended by growers are as follows : 

 Apples : Duchess, Hibernal, Okabena, Peerless, Charlamoff, Pat- 

 ten's Greening, Wealthy. Plums : Cherry, Wolf, Stoddard, Forest 

 Garden, De Soto, Surprise. Grapes: Beta, Janesville, Salters, 

 Niagara, Moore's Diamond, and Alpha. 



For shrubs and flowers the following are mentioned : Phlox, 

 petunia, peony, lilies, oriental poppies, pinks and many others. 

 Then also, hydrangeas, lilacs, syringas, spireas, snowballs, car- 

 agana and golden leaved elderberries. Generally speaking, 

 orcharding was not very profitable this year. 



