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locality, except when caused by frost. Leaves curl most, 

 when fruit is hurt most. 



Question 15. If you mean by the best way, the best 

 way to handle it, I would say of a crop, ship only best, 

 and let the rest go to the ground, if you are not fixed to 

 handle them some other way, such as evaporating or 

 drying. On a crop that will bring good prices all the 

 way through, then make three kinds ; extra, plain, and 

 culls ; and if you can sell your culls at home, do that ; 

 never put them on the market, if you can utilize them 

 any other way. The best package is, I think, a nice, 

 clean basket. 



ANSWERS RECEIVED FROM GROWER, NO. I4. 



Question i. Mountain Rose, Crawford's Early, 

 Reeves', Moore's Favorite, Stump the World, Crawford's 

 Late, Shipley's Late Red, Wilkins' Cling. 



Question 2. A sandy soil, level land, and no shelter, 

 is preferable. 



Question 3. Ten years. 



Question 4. From Smyrna to Seaford. 



Question 5. In the spring, after the buds begin to 

 open with cold and frosty weather ; also wet weather 

 will cause them to drop. 



Question 6. Zero. 



Question 7. No answer. 



