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smaller ai)ples. The Spitzenburg spots and cracks badly on my sandy 

 soil. Pewaukce has just fraited with me. Have planted largely of 

 Early Crawford, hut have not found them to be good bearers, they 

 never have given me more than a quarter of a crop. Hale's Early has 

 done very well with me ; at first it did not, but as the trees grew older 

 the fruit rotted, yet 1 found it more profitable thail the Crawfords. Late 

 Crawford generally ri[)ens, ))ut it is not much more prolific than Early 

 Crawford. Serrate Early York does well, but the Large Early York is 

 \inproductive. Am pleased with the Amsden; and old Mixon succeeds 

 well, it is large, attractive, and profitable. The frost did very little 

 injury to large fruits in my vicinity, but the strawberry crop' was 

 seriously hurt. Easpl)erries were a fine crop. Peaches were not hurt 

 by the May frost, though we had from two .to five degrees of frost. D. 

 IS^esbit, of Plympton Township, stated that peaches frequently winter- 

 kill at his place, which is five miles from the lake shore. The seedling 

 peaches were not injured by the late frost, but it seriously injured all 

 the grape vines. With the exception of the Oswego Beurre, which has 

 a good crop, my pear trees have no fruit this year. My soil is clay 

 with a mixture of gravel. James Watson has found that in his stiff 

 clay soil the peach trees do not stand the winter, but die out. James 

 Johnson, of Bosanquet, remarked that on the lake shore apples do well, 

 there being no summer frosts to hurt ; this year there is a good crop 

 along the lake for a strip about a mile in width, but further back the 

 frost of last May has seriously injured 'the fruit. Have found the Old 

 Mixon Peacli more hardy than Hale's Early or the Early Crawford. 

 The Concord, Adirondac, Salem, and Isabella grapes ripen well. Plums 

 do well if the trees are jarred and the Curcnlio destroyed. John Carr, 

 Sarnia Township, says he can not grow peaches well, they winter-kill. 

 Pear and cherry trees do well. Plums rot badly. Have a good crop 

 of apples this year. James Dougall, of Windsor, advised that the 

 rotting plums be gathered as last as they appear, and taken away from 

 the vicinity of the trees, so as to prevent the rot from spreading. T. 

 D. Watson, Sarnia Township, found all the cultivated peach trees 

 to die down to the ground. The Sweet CheiTy trees and tlie Maydukes 

 did not bear any fruit, did not blossom, though the trees grew w^ell. 

 Seedling peach trees grew and Iwre fruit. Is too far from the lake to 

 feel the beneficial effects of the water, the late spring frosts this year 

 having killed the fruit in his neighborhood, while close to the lake and 



