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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



which almost entirely destroyed grapes, straw- 

 berries, etc., and in some places cherries, pears, 

 plums and even apples were destroyed. Rejwrts 

 have been so much exaggerated that it is diffi- 

 cult to arrive at just the amount of damage 

 that has been done. There is no do\ibt, how- 

 ever, but that the fruit crop will be very light, 

 particularly grapes and strawberries, although 

 that portion on the south shore of Lake On- 

 tario, between the lake and mountain, has 

 suffered very little from frost, and the prospect 

 is good for peaches, grapes and all other fruits. 

 — M. Pettit. Winona, June S, 1S89. 



City of London. 



Sir, -I have made much enquiry in this neigh- 

 borhood about the damage the frost has done, 

 and find strawberries about half cut off, grapes 

 badly injured, currants and gooseberries f per- 

 haps a third destroyed, apples and pears not 

 hurt ; apples well set and at present ])romise 

 a good crop. The rest of the stuff, such as 

 potat(5es, beans, tomatoes, etc., we shall not 

 miss, as the season is very early. — John M. 

 Denton, June 4, 1889. 



Kent County. 



SiR,-The fruit prospects here are good. They 

 were extra good but for the late frost, which 

 destroyed most of the currants and first crop of 

 grapes ^though many yet look for second crop 

 of grapes). The strawberries were hurt a little. 

 All the other fruits are looking well. Apples 

 appear very favorable for a great crop.— F. W. 

 Wilson. 



Norfolk County. 



Sir, — Previous to the morning of the 29th of 

 May the fruit prospect for this section was the 

 best, by far, that I ever remember. In some 

 apple orchards it is now difficult td find a sound 

 specimen of fruit ; but in other orchards there 

 may be half a crop. Peaches destroyed. 



In some localities there will be a small crop 

 of pears, plums and cherries. Grapes are all 

 killed. About one-eighth of the strawberries 

 are left. Black caps are killed, but red rasp- 

 berries are but slightly injured. Currants and 

 gooseberries are very badly frozen. — J. K, 

 McMiCHAEL, Waterford, June b, 1889. 



Prince Edward County 



Sir, — Prospects of the coming fruit croj) are 

 not altogether promising now. We never had 

 a larger show of bloom than this year, but very 

 much has failed to set. 



Apples are very thin in the trees, and the 

 spots are already developing upon such varieties 

 as are liable to that disease. Duchess look well, 

 but only in some places. Ben Davis looks well 

 on one side of our orchard while on the o]iiiiisite 

 side a perfect failure. The Golden Russet 

 looks more promising than any other variety 

 oa our place, and they will not be one half of a 

 cr'>p. 



t'jars are doing fairly well ; and if it was 



not for the spot we would expect an abundant 

 crop of Flemish Beauty. The Dempsej' looks 

 better than ever before at this season of the 

 year ; not being subject to spot, we look for a 

 good crop. 



Cherries cannot amount to much with us this 

 j'ear. The Old Kentish and the Pearly Rich- 

 mond are the only two varieties that are fruiting 

 to amount to anything this year. 



Grapes are doing well, having come through 

 the winter in good order and just now com- 

 mencing to blossom. The season seems favor- 

 able for small fruits. — P. C. Dempsey. 



Norfolk County. 



Sir, — The fruit prospects in this section of 

 the country previous to the morning of the 

 29th of May was on the whole the best we ever 

 have had. The frost, however, has changed 

 the outlook to one of the poorest. 



The apples are mostly frozen with the excep- 

 tion of those that were protected by thick 

 foliage. 



Pears, plums and cherries are even worse 

 than the apples. 



Peaches, grapes and the earlier varieties of 

 black raspberries nearly all destroyed. Red 

 raspberries not very much injured. Currants 

 and goose berries about half destroyed. 



Strawberries nearly all frozen but there will 

 be a small crop from blossoms after the first. — 

 J. K. McMiCHAEL, Waterford. 



York County. 



Sir, — Your card of 14th at hand. I have not 

 been through the country a great deal so as to 

 enable me to give you what I would call an 

 accurate account of the fruit jjrospects, at 

 the same time from what I can learn, I find 

 that in this district fruit is likely to be a short 

 crop. Strawberries were in manj' cases greatly 

 injured by the frost, and the apple crop will 

 not be more than half a crop if it goes to that. 

 Pears in a great manj' sections look pretty 

 well, but there will be no plums to amount to 

 anything, and few cherries. I think rasp- 

 berries were not injured by the frost but in 

 this district, except in this immediate vicinity 

 there are very few grown. Summing the 

 matter up, I think, as a whole, there will be a 

 very poor fruit crop in this agricultural dis- 

 trict. — W. E.Wellington, Toronto, June 17th, 

 1S89. 



Huron County. 



My Dear Sec'y, — In reply to your post card, 

 I can only say that grapes are almost altogether 

 cut off ; peaches are badly killed ; jjlums along 

 lake front nearly a half crop, pears a fair crop, 

 and apples a very small crop, not a quarter crop. 

 Cherries were badly cut and the first blossom 

 of strawberries also. Currants and goo.seberries 

 are a fair croj). This is along lake fronts only. 

 Inland I find that there will be very little fruit 

 of any kind. I fear the prospect is not at all a 

 bright one for apple shi])pers in this Province. 

 The curiculio is worse this year than it has been 

 for some years, so that, Mr. Roy to the con- 

 trary, we must have recourse once more to Paris 

 green. — A. McD. Allan, Goderich, Ont. 



