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POPULAR GARDENING. 



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REPORT ON THE CONDITION OF THE FRUIT CROP. 



From our Correspondents, July 20, 1 89 1 . 



Explanation: 5. indicates a very heavy crop; 4, over average: 3. average; ~, under average; 

 1, poor; 0, total failure. Kinds chiedy grown indicated bj' (ull face figures. 



EASTERN SECTION. g i I 



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Correspondents. 



Canada. 



Varmouth County ... 5 4 



Welland " 2 1 



Lincoln " 3 2 



Carlton " ...31 



Huron " . . 8 1 



New Hampshirb. 



ttockingham County . .2 * 



Maine. 



Androscoggin County .2 3 



Cumberland " ... 3 3 



HHODB tSLAND. 



Providence County 8 3 



CONNECTICUT. 



Middlesex County 8 3 



LItchaeld " 4 * 



Hartford " 2 3 



Hartford '• ... 1 



Fairfield " 4 i 



Tolland " 1 S 



Delaware. 



New Castle County 5 5 



Sussex " 5 5 



Sussex " 5 5 



Kent '• 5 5 



Kent " 5 5 



New Jersey. 



Cumberland County .-5 5 



Middlesex " ... 2 4 



Monmouth " 5 5 



Monmouth " 3 3 



Essex " ..3 2 



Essex " 4 4 



Atlantic " 3 3 



Union " 3 2 



Vermont. 



Chittenden County 2 2 



Orleans " 2 2 



New York. 



Chautauqua County ... 2 1 



Albany •' 2 2 



Cayuga " ... 4 4 



Cayuga " 2 3 



Chautauqua " 8 3 



Chautauqua " 3 1 



Erie " ... 2 2 



Genesee " 2 1 



Livingston " 1 1 



Monroe " 3 1 



Monroe '* 3 1 



Monroe " 2 2 



Niagara " 3 1 



Niagara " 3 3 



Niagara " -.3 3 



Oneida " 4 3 



Ontario " ..2 I 



Ontario " .3 2 



Orange " 3 3 



Orleans " 3 1 



Orleans " 2 1 



(Jueens " .... 4 4 



Seneca " ... 3 1 



Steuben " O 1 



Suffolk " -.4 4 



Suffolk " .... 3 4 



Tompkins ' 3 3 



Ulster " 3 3 



Ulster " 4 3 



Wayne " 1 1 



Wayne *' 2 1 



Yates " 4 2 



Massachusetts. 



Hampshire County 3 3 



Hampshire " a 2 



Middlesex " 4 4 



Norfolk " ... 2 2 



Plymouth " 2 2 



Worcester '* 2 2 



Worcester " . . 3 3 



PENNS YLV.4NIA . 



Philadelphia County 4 4 



Ijancaster " .. — 4 4 



Lancaster " 4 4 



Franklin " 4 3 



Franklin " ... 4 3 



Montour " ... 3 3 



Cumberland " 3 4 



Bucks " 4 4 



Uutler ' 2 3 



Berks " 4 3 



Centre " . -- 5 5 



Chester " 4 4 



Lackawanna " 3 4 



Luzerne " .. 3 

 Warren " .23 

 CENTRAL SECTION. 

 Ohio. 



Belmont County 2 2 



Belmont " 3 3 



(.'uyahoga " 



Darke " 2 3 



Defiance ** 2 1 



Delaware " 2 1 



Erie " 



Fairfield " 1 2 



Franklin " 2 2 



Hamilton " 3 2 



Lake " 1 1 



Lake " 1 



3 4 





 3 3 



2 



4 3 3 



1 2 

 2 



3 2 



3 3 

 3 3 



4 4 2 



3 3 Charles E. Brown. 



3 3 E. Morden. 



3 3 D. W. Beadle. 



3 3 John Craig. 



3 4 Alex. McD. Allan. 



3 - George Q. Dow. 



4 3 L. F. Abbott. 

 4 3 A. P. Reed. 



4 3 J. Erastus Lester. 



5 4 



5 2 



4 3 



5 5 



3 



3 

 3 

 3 

 4 

 4 



4 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 5 



.5 2 W. A. Doolittle. 



4 3 T. S. Gold. 



3 3 S. B. Keach. 

 2 2 J. H. Hale. 



4 4 S. Hoyt's Sons. 



2 2 Wm. H Teomans. 



5 4 Edw. Tatnall. 

 . Myer & Son. 



3 2 C. Gundv Brown. 

 3 3 Wesley Webb. 



5 5 P. Emerson. 



Present Condition of the Fruit Crop. 



Our annual fruit report, herewith pre- 

 sented, is a month later than in former 

 years, and we believe just for that reason is 

 all the more trustworthy. The true con- 

 dition of the later tree fruits, especially, is 

 far more easily ascertained, and safer e.sti- 

 mates can be made at this time than a 

 month earlier. Our corre.spondents have 

 responded to our call with a promptness, 

 and done the work in hand with a thorough- 

 ness highly creditable to themselves, and 

 certainly gratifying to ourselves and our 

 numerous readers. We thank them most 

 heartily. The report which we are now 

 enabled to publish, is a complete and most 

 trustworthy symposium of the outcome and 

 promises respectively, of this year's fruit 

 crops. A computation shows the average 

 yield of each kind of fruit for the whole 

 country to be about as follows, 3 denoting 

 an average crop, viz: 



Apples, early 2.75 Plums 2.86 



Apples, late 269 Quinces 2.21 



Cherries ... 3.6,5 Raspberries ... 3 28 



Peaches 3 07 Strawberries 3.10 



Grapes 2.99 Blackberries 3.70 



Pears, early 2.80 Currants 3.17 



Pears, late. 2.81 Gooseberries. 2.91 



This shows that the most of our fruits 

 give us about, or nearly an average crop. 

 Apples, however, both early and late, are 

 considerably less than an average. The 

 prospects in the New England States, and 

 the corresponding section of Canada, are 

 for about the usual yield. A very heavy 

 crop is found in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 

 Delaware, Virginia, Arkansas, etc.; a good 

 crop in Kansas, Nebraska,Missouri, Indiana, 

 Iowa, etc. Undoubtedly the supply early in 

 the season will be quite large. In the great 

 sections, on the other hand, which furnish 

 the finest winter fruit, and the best keeping 

 varieties, viz.: in Ontario (Canada), New 

 York, Michigan, also Ohio, etc., the crop is 

 very light. The average of late Apples for 

 these states, calculated on the basis of the 

 figures given by our correspondents, ap- 

 pears to be 1.79, or in other words, a crop 

 that is between under average and poor. 

 From this it seems reasonably certain that 

 all the good winter fruit grown in these 

 Apple producing .sections, will be in ready 

 demand, and bring good prices. Evaporator 

 men will find a good field to work in Vir- 

 ginia, Kansas, Nebraska, perhaps Missouri. 



The Pear crop seems to be evenly dis- 

 tributed over the country, among the states 

 apparently discriminated against being 

 Ohio, Georgia, Maine. We must leave it to 

 our readers to draw other conclusions con- 

 cerning the fruit, crop from the figures of 

 our report. 



Plum Pocl<ets or Bladders. 



The fungus which attacks the fruit of the 

 Chickasaw and American Plums, and 

 various species of Plum and Cherry, mak- 

 ing it appear as represented in our illus- 

 tration (reduced from (hardener's Chronicle) 

 bears the name Taphrina pruni. Dr. 

 Masters' Vegetable -Teratology quotes Dr. 

 Robb as saying, concerning the modus of 

 operation of the fungus: 



"I had an opportunity of watching the 

 process of destruction among the Plums, 

 and it was as follows: Before, or soon after 

 the segments of the corolla had fallen off, 

 the ovarium had become greenish-yellow, 

 soft, and flabby.— As the fruit continued to 

 increase in magnitude, its color grew dark- 

 er, and of a more ruddy yellow, and at the 

 end of a fortnight or three weeks the size of 

 the abortive fruit rather exceeded that of a 

 ripe Walnut. In fact an observer might 

 imagine himself to be walking amongst 

 trees laden with ripe Apricots, but, like the 

 tabled fruit ou the banks of the Dead Sea, 

 these Plums, though tempting to the eye, 

 when examined, were found to be hollow, 

 containing air, and consisting only of a dis- 



