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Present iiulication.s aie l)y no means so 

 favorable as the promise at lilooming. Cher- 

 ries have blighted and thinned out very 

 much ; plums are badly taken by curculio ; 

 peaches, apples and pears are a fair crop of 

 certain varieties, in the Niagara District, but 

 not overabundant ; while, in some parts, 

 peaches are reported a failure. Indeed, in 

 most of the peach growing States of the 

 Union, except Missouri, the peach crop pro- 

 mises to be very light. 



Norfolk County. 



Sir, — In the neighborhood of .Simcoe Co. 

 Norfolk, fruit prospects were never better. 

 Apples, in spite of the great crop of last year, 

 promise an average yield. Plum and cherry 

 trees are heavily laden. Peara are a good 

 crop. Small fruits of all kinds promise an 

 abundant yield. Strawberries are coming on 

 slowly and will be late. Peaches are not 

 much grown ; have heard of some fruit, but 

 the trees are badly afiected with leaf-curl. 

 Yours truly, 



J. A. CAMl-nELL. 



(^berries will be a fair cr.jp. Karly Rich- 

 mond injured by May frost. Montmorency 

 and English Morello very well loaded. Very 

 few sweet cherries grown here. 



Plums give great promise, especially Lom- 

 bard I have fifteen trees in chicken yard, 

 a>id they are already bending with the fruit. 

 I have not sprayed and [ see no stung fruit 

 yet. Varieties— Lombard, Bradshaw, tiolden 

 Prolific, Imperial Gage and Quackenboss. In 

 another lot I have Pond's Seedling. Shipper's 

 Pride, General Hand, the latter a very shy 

 bearer. I have also Abundance, VVillard and 

 Burbank, but no fruit, though blossom. I 

 begin to fear that the Japan plums will only 

 do in the more favored sections of Canada, or 

 where the peach will thrive. 



Blackberries are in bloom now and promise 

 an abundant crop. 



Vours truly, 



A. W, Gkaham, SL Tho/nii", Unt. 



St. Thomas Notes. 



Sir, — Everything here is about two weeks 

 later than a year ago. The May frost injured 

 the early strawberry blossoms, but the crop 

 promises to be up to the average. 



Raspberries, notwithstanding the mild win- 

 ter, are considerably injured by the cold, 

 especially Shatter and Marlboro' ; Cuthbert 

 and Turner are all right. 



Currants will not be half a crop ; Victoria 

 and White Grape are well loaded, but Fay, 

 Cherry and Ver.sailles have only here and 

 there a bunch. I find Victoria my favorite, 

 Prince Albert next, and, for early, the Ver- 

 sailles ; Fay the greatest bearer of the lot. 

 Reii Dutch and North Star too small. 



( iooselierries will be about half a crop, 

 which will be enough with last year's condi- 

 tions. I only picked about half my crop 

 (Downing and Smith's Improved), I could not 

 get enough to pay for jiicking. Your corres- 

 pondents keep on telling how to grow ; can't 

 some of them tell us how and where to sell 

 them at a profit. It appears to me we must 

 (juit growing suuiU gooseberries and selling 

 them green, and grow the large ones and sell 

 them ripe. People won't can green, sour 

 gooseberries, when they can get other fruit as 

 cheap as they could last year. 



Apples, contrary to expectations, will be a 

 fair crop. No Red Astrachan, but plenty 

 Yellow Trans|)arcnt and Oldenburg, and many 

 of the winter kinds arc bearing well. 



Huron County. 



Sir, — I went through my orchard recently. 

 The cherries are a heavy crop, plums very 

 good and very free from curculio ; pears well 

 loaded, small fruits in abundance, grapes 

 showing well ; apples, although very thick 

 with blossom, will be a very light crop, 

 nearly all oH ; all the time they were in 

 bloom it was very wet weather ; I faid then 

 I was afraid the apples would w t .set well, 

 the pollen was all washed off, besides the 

 bees couldn't work on it ; we had no frost to 

 hurt. I have found the Spys and (Jabasheas 

 generally shy bearers, but this year they 

 were covered with bloom, young Spys as 

 well. I find the BalJwins to be standing the 

 best of all, but they will be a light crop ; all 

 other varieties a'most no crop. 



Walter Hick, Godericli. 



Ontario County. 



Sir, — I have just got in after a drive of 

 twenty miles through the fruit growing part 

 of this district, and from notes taken, sum- 

 m vrize the following : — Apples, 70 to SO per 

 cent, of a full crop ; pears, 90 per cent. ; 

 plums, a full crop, and more, as many vaiie- 

 ties are literally crowded ; cherries, nearly a 

 full crop, say, 90 per cent. ; gooseberries ami 

 red currants, heavily loaded. Some com- 

 plaints of mildew on gooseberries, where not 

 ])roperly sprayed : black currants, about 70 

 per cent ; strawberries, good ; grajies are 

 late, but plenty of clusters formed. 



Taken all round, the fruit crop will exceed 

 last year, except in apples, which will be 

 about the same, according to present appear- 

 ances. 



