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small are good, and most of the business is done through the local 

 grocers and direct to the consumers. The tender varieties of plums, 

 such as the Japanese, were injured by frosts to a considerable extent, 

 as were strawberries to a lesser degree, 



Norfolk Countt. 



Westwood (Ingram I. Margeson). — Personally, I have good 

 success with peaches, but the fruits doing the best in this locality are 

 strawben-ies, apples, currants, plums and cherries. There is not 

 much land available for the cultivation of fruit here, and very few 

 new orchards are being planted. Some apples, peaches and currants 

 have been planted during the last five years. Finiit buds wintered as 

 indicated: peaches, 85; plums, 50; chemes, 75. The average bloom 

 of apples was 75; pears, 100. The most troublesome insects are the 

 tent caterpillar, brown-tail moths and San Jose scale, for all of 

 which spraying is practiced. Small fruits promise a 75 per cent 

 crop. Markets fair, sales being made through commission houses, 

 direct to consumers and to local stores. Currants and strawberries 

 have suffered from frosts. 



Medway (Monroe Mor.se). — When cared for, apples, peaches, 

 pears, currants, strawberries and blackberries do well in this vicinity. 

 There is considerable land available for the cultivation of fruit, and 

 apple and peach trees are being planted to replace trees which have 

 died from scale and neglect. Eighty per cent of peach buds win- 

 tered, and apples and pears showed a bloom of 100. Tent cater- 

 pillars are doing the most damage, and in most good orchards 

 spraying is practiced for San Jose scale and the other insect pests. 

 The prospect for the small-fruit crop is 100 per cent. Most of the 

 marketing is done direct to consumers and fruit dealers. Noted 

 increase in leaf curl and failure of fruit to set". Early strawbemes 

 were damaged by frost. 



Bristol County. 

 South Easton (Wilmarth P. Howard). — Fruits doing best in 

 this territory are plums, apples, strawberries, pears, goosebemes, cur- 

 rants and grapes. Plenty of land for fruit cultivation is obtainable, 

 and many small orchards are being planted. These are mostly 

 apple orchards, with peach trees as fillers. Strawberry culture is 

 on the wane. Fruit buds wintered as follows: peach, 50; plum, 75; 

 cherry, 100, and pears and apples showed a bloom of 100. Tent 

 caterpillars and the codling moth are doing the most damage. Spray- 

 ing for San Jose scale is practiced to some extent, but the practice 

 of spraying for the codling moth and other fruit pests is very 

 extensive. The small fruits promise a 75 per cent crop. Markets 

 are good, the most common method of marketing being direct to 



