202 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
My fruit is not all destroyed. My prospect is good for a fair crop 
of apples; my cherries the same; currants good; also, raspberries 
on new lands; blackberries a failure; strawberries but little injured; 
grapes badly killed. M. PEARCE. 
Chowen, May 26, 1895. 
Apples uninjured by the frosts, the older varieties not bearing 
much, Hibernal and many of the Russians very full of fruit; plums 
in some situations ruined by frost, but at our place the greater share 
of the crop is safe and fine, the Cheney especially promising; grapes 
frozen back, but appear to have.a good reserve of fruit buds that 
may yet give us a fair crop; raspberries quite generally winter- 
killed, but showing less injury from frost than might be expected; 
strawberries very unpromising—winter injury and spring frosts 
have reduced the prospect to a fourth ofa cropor less. In general 
the hope of a faircrop is still left us. CLARENCE WEDGE. 
Albert Lea, May 22, 1895. 
Strawberries all, or nearly all, gone by the late frost; red rasp- 
berries died last winter on account of last year’s drought; black 
raspberries look quite good, and I will have two-thirds of a crop; 
blackberries all dead; apples not hurt. Will havea good crop of 
Wealthy and Longfield and other Russians, Duchess and crab 
apples; will not bear heavy, but trees in good condition. 
Rochester, May 22, 1895. R. CC. ISSEES 
In some places on high land and well sheltered by trees, there will 
be some apples and plums, but in many places the crop of apples, 
plums and cherries will bea total failure. Strawberries and rasp- 
berries were seriously injured by the frost. The fore part of May 
the fruit prospects were never better for everything but raspberries; 
they were badly winter-killed. The frost of May twelfth destroyed 
the most of the fruit and froze some of the gooseberries and currants, 
Winnebago City, Minn., May 22, 1895. S. D. RICHARDSON. 
The apples are all right except on very low ground where the late 
frost took them; my blackberries show a good many dead canes; 
raspberries are killed about half way down; strawberries did not do 
well last summer and are pretty thin, but are blooming good; goose- 
berries and currants are very full; grapes got frozen very badly— 
my Mocre’s Early stood it the best of any. I think the apple crop 
will be a big one. 5S. CORP. 
Hammond, May 23, 1895. 
I estimate the average apple crop at one-fourth, mine the same; 
plums one-eighth; strawberries one-half; raspberries one-eighth; 
currants one-half; North Star currant well loaded. Transcendant 
crab not bearing this year; Minnesota crab blossomed full and is 
getting to the front as a crab apple. EK. H.'S. DARE 
Owatonna, May 23, 1895. 
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