106 THE CANADIAN 'HOKTICULTURIST, 



first thought, for they have baen dropping off very badly; cherries 

 were a total failure; currants were not hurt, indeed they were the 

 finest they had raised in some time; the grapes were not much hurt. 



A. Morse, of Smithville, reported that in his neighborhood the 

 peaches were all gone, but a few grapes had escaped; plums were badly 

 injured; cherries, a failure; pears;, nearly half a crop; the raspberry 

 crop never better; currants good; and apples half a crop. Eed apples 

 had escaped better than the light colored, . W. Saunders, of London > 

 said that on the nights of the 12th and 13th of May the thermometer 

 fell to 26°. Up to that time everything promised well, but this frost 

 killed two-thirds of the strawberry crop; black cun*ants were nearly all 

 killed, and the other sorts badly injin-ed; the cherries were ruined, 

 unless a few Maydukes, and some of the common Kentish; plums were 

 blackened inside and fell off; pears suffered very badly; the injury to 

 apples was sectional, very serious in some orchards; and the crab 

 apples suffered the most; the grapes partially recovered wlien a second 

 frost injured them, though not as seriously as the first ; up to within 

 ten days ago raspberries promised well, but the great heat accompanied 

 with severe drought has dried them up very badly, and the fruit is 

 small; and the apples are falling off from tlie same cause. 



In the vicinity of Port Dalliousie, W, H. Eeed informed the meet- 

 ing the fruit crops had not suffered materially from frost, but that 

 wlien the fruit trees were in blossom the weather was so wet that 

 the pollen did not fertilize the blossoms, consequently the apple crop 

 will be small, and cherries a failure; but there will be a fair crop of 

 plums; a good crop of gooseberries, currants, and raspberries, and there 

 has been an excellent crop of strawberries. C. Arnold remarked that 

 at Paris the frost destroyed the blossoms of the grapes entirely, but 

 that a second growth on some varieties has bloomed later, so that there 

 will be a few grapes. Those plum trees tliat had set their fruit well 

 before the frost, and those that bloomed after the frost, have es- 

 caped injury ; there were but very few blossoms on the pear trees ; 

 apples bloomed profusely, and ' there will be a large crop. In some 

 localities the strawberries were killed, in others they escaped, his own 

 were all killed ; raspberries were not injured by the frost, but the 

 extreme dry and hot weather had totally dried up the berries, especially 

 those of the black-cap family ; black currants are a poor crop, of other 

 sorts a passably fair crop, as also of goosebfirries ; the common red 



