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white cling with faint blush, middle of August ; Connell, 

 the peach Kirkpatrick carried from here on September 14 

 and ate three weeks later in Portland, Oregon, a very large 

 yellow cling with red cheek ; Lampasas, white freestone 

 with red cheek, medium size and ripens just with Connell, 

 both hanging until the middle of October ; Adams, the 

 largest late peach, cling, white flesh and red cheek, middle 

 of October to middle of November. All of these seedlings 

 have very small seeds and are of fine quality except Adams, 

 which is fine for preserving but too late to be of best quality. 

 Believing that these seedlings, which are now all full and 

 have never missed a crop, are worthy of propagation, I will 

 send buds this season free to the following nurserymen, who 

 will doubtless grow them for sale : The Texas Nursery 

 Company, Sherman; F. W. Malley, Garrison; Jno. F. 

 Sneed, Tyler ; J. F. Leyendecker, Freylsburg ; F. T. 

 Ramsey, Austin ; G. A. Schattenburg, Boerne ; E. Knox, 

 San Antonio; Orr Nursery Co., Arp, and Fernando Miller, 

 Lampasas, all of Texas. I omitted mentioning the "Cauthen" 

 peach referred to in a previous chapter, which will also be 

 sent, but I cannot furnish the general public. 



The Japanese plums have little fruit except Shiro, which 

 has a fair crop. All the Americana and Chickasaw varieties 

 have enough. Of thirteen varieties of apricots, which usu- 

 ally bear well, only two have any fruit left, the Berzetti and 

 Montgamet, both highly esteemed California kinds, which 

 still have considerable fruit on them, the former being the 

 last of all to bloom and having the most fruit. Cuttings of 

 these two apricots will also be sent to the nurserymen named. 

 I will now close this review with a letter just received from 

 W. W. Durham, of the Austin Sod Experiment Station, 

 dated March 30. 



'H. M. STRINGFELLOW. 



Dear Sir. I met three cultivating orchardists today, one of 

 whom, Mr. Rutledge, of apple fame, lives nine miles north of Austin, 

 who told me that he had killed most of his orchard by plowing, and 

 what was left had been totally killed by the recent freeze. Mr. 

 Weaver, owner of the 800 peach trees that lost their crop last year 

 by the February freeze, has now lost it all again. Mr. Rutledge 



