THE FRUIT CROP. 



E have purposely delayed making any reports on the fruit 

 prospects of the present season until this month, in 

 order that we might first pass by the season of most 

 uncertainty. Now that the fruit has not only set, but also 

 begun rapid growth, one may calculate with some degree 

 of certainty upon the crop. The branches shown above 

 were cut at Maplehurst about the loth of June, to show 

 the fruitfulness of the trees. Beginning on the left the 

 varieties are Baldwin apples, Rivers peaches, Bartlett 

 pears, Governor Wood cherries, and King apples. All 

 these are as full as the trees can carry. The King apple 

 trees never have carried such a quantity of fruit as they are doing this season, while 

 even the Baldwin, which has for ten or twelve years been almost barren seems to 

 have recovered its old-time fruitfulness. Many growers had become discour- 

 aged with this variety, and had rooted up their orchards, and now they will 

 surely mourn their rashness. Bartlett pears and cherries are not grown very far 

 north, but in Grimsby district, this year promises to furnish the finest quality 

 ever known, while the cherries, which we are beginning to harvest, will out-yield 

 any previous year. Peaches also are a magnificent crop in certain favored sec- 

 tions, especially are they abundant about Grimsby, while on the other hand they 

 ate failures both east and west, owing to the severe frosts of last January which 

 has also cut them off in both the States of New York and Michigan. 



Mr. J. .Nf. Fisk, President of the Quebec Pomological Society, writes as follows cou- 

 ceming the fruit in that section : May opened very warm, and we liave had no frosts to 

 check vegetation, but generally cool weather since June came in. In fact such weather ag 

 we might have looked for in May. The outlook for the apple crop is first-class. Therg 

 was an abundance of bloom, and good prospect of a crop of most varieties except Blu. 



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