REPORT 



COMMITTEE ON FRUITS, 



FOR THE YEAR 1895. 



By E. W. WOOD, Chairman. 



There was less injury to fruit-bearing trees, canes, aucl vines 

 during the winter of 1894-5 than the average in past years; 

 the extremes of temperature were less, and the ground was more 

 continuously covered with snow, some of the snow falling in 

 November remaining on the ground until after the middle of 

 March. 



Several exceptionally warm days in early spring pushed forward 

 the fruit buds, and being followed later by frosts, strawberries and 

 grapes were severely injured, in many places the earlier varieties 

 proving a total failure. The season was favorable for the growth 

 of fruit ; while the rainfall was not up to the average it was so 

 evenly distributed that there was less injury from drought than in 

 many of the other States. 



It being the off year for Apples the exhibitions of that fruit, 

 especially the late varieties, have not compared favorably with 

 those of the previous years and where the trees were not properly 

 cared for and sprayed, the fruit was so wormy and knurled as to 

 be of little value. Of Pears there has been an average crop and 

 some fine specimens were shown at the exhibitions. There has 

 been little complaint of the blight among the growers the past 



