30 ANNUAL REPOKT. 



weather, I am trying to build a dwelling and I have no leisure what- 

 ever. There is a bond of sympathy between us, augmented, no doubt 

 by the disasters of the past very cold winter — such symoathy as comes 

 from the commisseration of common misfortunes, if not from common 

 success. No doubt after the many funeral services we shall be com- 

 pelled to hold over dead pets and blighted hopes, we should get encour- 

 agement from a meeting of your Society, whose circumstances as hor- 

 ticulturists so nearly resemble our own. As it is we can only offer you 

 our good will and hope ere long to be able to render you material 

 assistance in your horticultural work, so courageously undertaken. 



Respectfully, 



A. L. Hatch." 



FRUIT REPORT, BY GEO. J. KELLOGG, JANESVILLE, WIS. 



The following fruit report was then read: 



The effects of the past winter are very disastrous and singularly 

 marked, especially among small fruits. Among apple trees there is 

 the finishing up of our borne trees, and of those partially killed the 

 two previous winters. In the orchard Red Astrichan, Golden Russet, 

 Talman Sweet and many others of this hardy list have lost a limb and 

 occasionally a tree. Willow Twig seems least effected in the orchard 

 of any winter apple in the nursery, it frequently injures badly — Duchess 

 and Tetofsk}' are most hardy of all; though most of the new Russians 

 seem hardy enough but are predisposed to blights. The winter of 

 1882-3 was more severe on apples than any winter for the last ten 

 years. I had Wealthy kill to the ground in the nursery and every- 

 thing but Duchess, Tetofskj^ and New Russian were more or less 

 injured. Among the Raspberries new plantations have suffered least^ 

 Turner and Crimson Beauty seem most hardy among the Red. Old 

 Plantations of Cuthbert and Brandywiue, Hansell and Sheffers Colos- 

 sal are killed to snow line and in some cases to the ground, while new 

 plantations of the same kind are fruiting to the tips. Among the 

 blacks about the same appearance with Gregg, Tyler, Sonhegan, 

 Onandfiga, Ohio, M. Cluster, &3. The old plantations are hardly 

 worth standing, some even killed to the ground, while most of the new 

 plantings are fruiting to the tips. 



Strawberries, except when not covered and in low places, have win- 

 tered well and are loaded with fruit — of the comparative value of kinds 

 it is too early to form a correct opinion. 



