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PEACHES. 



Good. Very Good. Best. 



Early Ann, President, Early Tillotson, 



Red & yellow rareripe, Cable's Early Meloco- Yellow Alberge, 

 Admirable clin^, ton. Morris Red Rareripe, 



Old Newington cling. Early York, 



Malta. 



PLUMS. 



Owing to the continued ravages of the curculio, but little has been 

 accomplished in the cultivation of this fruit. The Jefferson, Green 

 Gage, Columbia and some others produce well ; but the specimens 

 hitherto produced do not warrant a definite judgment. The follow- 

 ing have been fully tested. Washington (best). Smith's Orleans and 

 Drap d'Or, (very good), Imperial Gage^ {good^) Coe''s Golden Dropj 

 good, but too late for this section. 



APRICOTS. 



Breda, (good) Moorpark, (very good) , Hemskirke and Peach, 

 (best), are the only ones that have been fully tested. 



GRAPES. 



The best hardy varieties are the Catawba, Isabella and Miller's 

 Burgundy. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Best. Very Good. Good. 



Hovey's seedling. Grove End Scarlet, Ross' Phoenix, 

 Burr's seedling. Willey's. Iowa. 



The two most formidable enemies (after the curculio) which fruit 

 growers have to encounter are the Rose Bug and the Slug. The first 

 made a terrible onslaught upon the cherry trees, greedily devouring 

 whatever fruit there was. So thorough was the devastation that 

 scarcely a perfect cherry was matured this season. The Slug, how- 

 ever, has proved a far more destructive foe. In some localities his 

 ravages have been dreadful, principally among the cherry and pear 

 trees. Thousands of trees have been stripped of their entire foliage, 

 and will hardly survive the shock. Numerous remedies have been 

 tried, and with various success. A mixture of tobacco juice and 



