The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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LINCOLN. 



Mr. E. Morden, of Niagara Falls South, 

 writes: 



Apples. — D. of Oldenburg and Spy bears 

 some crop ; as a whole less than one per 

 cent. : poor condition. 



'Pears. — Bartletts, full crop; F. Beauty, 

 fifty per cent. ; Seckel, seventy-five per 

 cent. ; B. d" Anjou, seventy-five per cent. ; 

 others hereabouts fair crop ; in poor condi- 

 tion ; fruit has made scarcely any growth for 

 several weeks ; blight active. 



Plums. — An enormous crop, say two hun- 

 dred per cent, of all kinds ; Some rot 

 among all varieties ; with five weeks drought, 

 a shower and another drought at this time. 

 Plums look well but are, of course, not large. 



Grapes. — A great crop of all varieties ; two 

 hundred per cent. ; varieties of the Roger's 

 stamp are mostly mildewed. Have several 

 times used spray of copper sulphate (alone) 

 with apparently little effect; used on plums for 

 rot with not much result ; early and repeated 

 applications may be effectual ; many bunches 

 of grapes are small ; rose bugs were active, 

 but they left a large crop ; Champion is 

 immense in all respects except quality , if 

 allowed to fully ripen it would not so much 

 harm the market. 



Quinces. — No crop here ; trees blighting 

 badly ; I arrest it by cutting off the twigs 

 promptly. 



Peaches. — Peaches are a good average 

 crop ; crop just here and in a few localities. 

 They are a failure in many places near us. 

 Pears and plums are, I think, a better crop 

 with us than in most localities. On a recent 

 trip to Rochester I noticed many thousands 

 of apple trees but no apples to speak of , very 

 many large orchards are entirely destitute 

 of fruit. 



GREY. 



Mr.R. McKnight, of OwenSound, writes: 



Apples. — The crop is a thin one ; about 

 twenty-five per cent, of a full average ; fall 

 varieties best fruited ; Astracans a full crop ; 

 early harvest half a crop ; Gravensteins half a 

 crop ; Maiden'sBlush fairly well loaded. The 

 crop of winter apples is very thin ; Baldwins 

 almost a failure ; Spies irregular ; some 

 trees well laden, others with little or none 

 on ; R. I. Greenings almost a complete fail- 

 ure ; Codlin Moth has played havoc with 

 most of the fruit. 



Pears.— \<I\\\ yield an average crop. 



Plums. — None in this neighborhood. 



Grapes. — Have not fully recovered from 

 the severe freezing the vines got two years 

 ago ; good wood is bearing well. 



The fruu crop as a whole will be unusually 

 light. 



SIMCOE. 



Mr. Geo. Ottaway, of Barrie, writes : 

 Very few apples, especially of winter varie- 



ties; a fairly good crop of Duchess, Astrachans 

 and Tetoiski ; Snows and Russets half a 

 crop ; plums an entire failure ; grapes a good 

 crop. 



ESSEX. 



Mr. .N J. Clinton, writes : I do not think 

 we will have more than twentv-five per cent, 

 of a full crop of apples. The Spy and 

 Wagner are well loaded ; the pears average 

 about forty per cent, of a full crop and is 

 in fair condition, except Flemish Beauty 

 which is badly spotted. 



Grapes. — Although last on the list it is not 

 by any means the least important, for next 

 to apples there are more acres of land planted 

 to grapes in this county than any other 

 variety of fruit raised in this county. The 

 Concords, ninety per cent, crop ; the Niagara, 

 eighty per cent, crop . the Worden, eighty 

 per cent ; the Delaware, sixty percent. Ives 

 Seedling few planted, good crop were grown; 

 Courtland bearing well. The Concords 

 represent about eighty per cent, of all 

 the grapes grown in the county, hence the 

 grapes are almost a full crop. 



LENNOX. 



Mr. John Gibbard, of Napanee, writes : 



Apples are almost a total failure in this 

 part, with the exception of the following : 

 Duchess a fair crop ; Red Astracan, fair ; 

 Russets next, but not quite as good, quality 

 fair, but not large. The drouth has been 

 very severe with us here this summer. 



Pears. — Not over half crop, Bartlett and 

 Flemish Beauty and Clapps Favorite about 

 equal, affected a little by the black spot. 



Plums are but little grown here ; Lombard, 

 fair crop and in good condition, also Yellow- 

 Egg, fair crop ; my Seedling fair crop. 



Grapes are not over half a crop ; few are 

 raised here. 



MIDDLESEX. 



Mr. John Little, Granton, writes: 



The apple crop this year again is in this 

 section a very poor one, not one-quarter of 

 a full crop. 



Northern Spy, Baldwin and the Snow apple 

 are the only varieties giving any fruit, and 

 that is on the south-west side of the trees. 



Pears. — None in this neighborhood. 



Plums. — Pond's Seedling and Lombard a 

 fair crop. 



Grrt/>fs.— Concord and Worden are the 

 only varieties grown here. Those that 

 escaped the withering blast in the spring 

 have a fair crop. 



BRUCE. 



Mr. J. H. WiSMER, of Port Elgin, writes : 



Apples. — The varieties of apples, of which 



a full crop is now assured, is confined to the 



Duchess of Oldenburg, Spy, Golden Russet 



and Snow, (the latter much spotted). Many 



