238 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Pearmain. This variety, although full of blossom, is carrying little fruit. There is no 

 show of scab as yet. I have sprayed twice, and am inclined to let things go at that. 

 Spraying is practised by a number of fruit growers in this locality. No signs of pear blight 

 up to date, but plenty of other enemies to fight, as bud moth, tent caterpillar and curculio. 

 All small fruit promise an average crop. 



Mr. George Nicol of Cataraqui, Director for the Counties of Frontenac, Leeds, 

 Grenville and Brockville, and the City of Kingston, writes : The prospects for the 

 various fruits is most favorable. Strawberries, although badly winter-killed, are coming 

 on plentifully, and are fine in quality. Gooseberries, raspberries and currants are yield- 

 ng abundantly. Apples have set well, and the foliage looks fine, except where attacked 

 by the cigar-case bearer. Last season this pest was noticed in this locality in a limited 

 number, but this year its ravages have increased, and will seriously affect the apple crop. 



0ttaw4 Valley. — Mr. J. G. Whyte reports as follows: Apples, early, good; over 

 the average in most places. Twig blight showing, but not serious yet. Apples, late, 

 under the average. Plums, native red, a very heavy crop, no sign yet of the blight. 

 Plums, blue and green, a complete failure, 32 below zero last winter was fatal to all 

 varieties of Prunus domestica. Cherries, much under the average ; many trees were root 

 killed by the severe cold of last winter. Grapes, an average crop. Currants, black, red 

 and white, all loaded with fruit, above the averatre. Gooseberries, native, an extra crop. 

 Foreign varieties, that came through the winter all right are a full crop, but many varieties 

 were badly winter killed. Raspberries, red, under the average, most kinds were injured 

 by the severe cold of last winter. Raspberries, black, a full crop. Blackberries, very few 

 grown here, but those that passed through the winter safely are bearing well. Stiaw- 

 berries, not over half a crop ; old plantations were badly winter-killed, a fair crop on 

 plants put out last season. 



SiMCOE County. — Mr. G. C. Caston writes as follows : So far as I can ascertain the 

 fruit in this district will be as follows : Apples, above average ; prospects of the largest 

 crop for several years. Plums not much grown here, wild or common red plentiful, but 

 nearly all spoiled by curculio. Improved varieties fair. Cherries very light. Pears light 

 to medium. Small fruits suffered from drouth. We had no rain all the spring and up to 

 the 5th of June Since then we have had some showers, and strawberries may yet do 

 fairly well. Raspberries will likely be an average crop. Gooseberries and currants are 

 fruiting well. As to grapes, so few are grown here that they are not of any consequence. 



Pkrth and Middle.sex.— Mr. T. H. Race, of Mitchell, writes : The fruit prospects 

 throughout this district are on the whole verj' promising. Apples promise a full crop 

 Cherries a full crop. Pears and plums a fair crop, as the trees did not blossom as heavy as 

 last year. In small fruits, black currants are dropping badly and only quarter of a crop 

 can be looked for at best ; red and white currants are promising well. Gooseberries are a 

 heavy crop, but the mildew is playing havoc with them in many localities. In some gar- 

 dens no varieties are exempt from this disease this j'ear, where mildew never appeared 

 before. Raspberries promise a \ery heavy crop, though the plantations both in wild and 

 cultivated are much more limited than formerly on account of the frosts of last year. 

 As yet there are no indications of dropping except with black currants. 



Niagara District.— Mr A. M. Smith, of St. Catharines, writes : I think the follow- 

 ing will be about the result of the fruit crop for the district I represent. — Strawberries, 

 75 percent., early varieties injured by drouth ; red raspberries, 50 per cent, badly wintei ed 

 killed in some places ; blackcaps, SO per cent. ; blackberries, 90 per cent. ; sweet cherries 

 80 per cent. ; sour cherries, 50 per cent ; plums 75 per cent.; fruit buds of Japan and 

 tender sorts hurt by winter frosts ; pears, Bartlett and KiefFer 100 per cent., a good many 

 other varieties light, not more than 60 per cent, on the whole ; peaches, excepting in the 

 Grimbsy section, very light, not more than 25 per cent. ; grapes promise well where vines 

 were not injured by last year's frost, probably 80 per cent ; apples better than they have 

 been for years, 100 per cent., except perhaps on Spys which are light in places. 



Huron, Bruce and Grey. — Mr. John Stewart, of Benmiller, writes : Applet, the 

 l)est for a number of years, the fruit is clean and free from spot. If nothing happens, it 

 will be the best crop on record. It would pay to thin out the fruit. Pears will be an 

 average crop. The fruit is clean and free from spot. The Bartlett is bearing the heaviest 

 crop. The plum crop is very large and not much affected with curculio. (,'herries are an 

 average crop. Gooseberries and currants will be a large crop. Peaches and grapes very 

 little grown in this district for market. 



