Aveusr 10, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
151 
Baxrrs жузд o fruit crops, on the whole, are 
a (air average. Peaches and Apricots showed a fair 
percentage оГ blossom, but owing to the cold nights 
and badly ripened wood they set badly. Pears, on 
the whole, are a m od average. Apples were most 
abundant — * m, but have set very thinly; the 
very dry weather сане g during the flowering 
seemed to "nhau t them, and the frait ts have dropped 
badly. Figs on the open wall, which usually do 
well, have Se from the frosts of winter, — 
temperature having gone down to zero. Small fru 
good, except Black Currants, which were 
thinned by the spring gales, J. Fraser Smith, Cullen 
House 
—— The fruit this season with us is good every- 
where, but Apples are almost a failure, Pears and 
Plums, although they suffered in the early part 
ason eason of drought, winds, апа low 
good crop. William Alexander, 
Mountblairy House Gardens, Turri 
BznwicksurRE.—Our fruit crops are, on the whole, 
good, Trees healthy, ining "фсе to the scarcity 
of fruit last year, Bloom was very abundant, and 
аа а whole is a small crop, Plums have undergone 
а severe thinning. Pears only on young trees are a 
fair crop. I have seen a heavier set of Apples, but 
these "will nevertheless be a large and fine crop. R. P. 
Brotherston, Tyninghame, Preston 
T LorutAN.—Pearsaud Apricots are not a heavy 
crop, but Apples, Plums, and Cherries are abun 
ant 
and good. Lord Suffield, Keawick Codlin, Warner's 
King, ue гает t "Blenheim 
of the Pippins, and 
Orange, Cox’s , Kin 
0 t the — of the 
Apples. The small fruits are an extra heavy crop, 
except Black Currants, All other sorts, especially 
Strawberries and Gooseberries, are plentiful. Vm. 
Me Kelvis, Broxmouth Park Gardens, Dunbar, N.B. 
FirgsuiRE,— The crop of fruit in this district is 
extra rw and with recent rains the fruit will 
Blenheim Pippins on w dard nd 
Ribston Pippin is thin on wall trees. Denyer's Vic- 
toria Plum is extra good, and the Damsons are the 
heaviest crop ever seen here—at least, within the 
Fig, 29, TOTUNIMATONAWAA ISATIDEA : 
(SEE Р. 150.) 
we had little or no frost, oniy spells of sunless 
cold — which would account for much of the 
ot setting, and lm em long 
had ап equally bad using many of 
the fruits — drop off of such reliable sorts м Burling 
Castle, Ec e, Pott's Seedling, Warner's K 
&c. We have & 3 erop of Apples, t 
the fruit is swelling бе We never had such fine 
crops of Gooseberri d Strawberries as this 
season, the rain just бөй in the niek of time to 
save the pr John Coiras, The Hirsel Gardens 
Coldstream, N. i 
— The — crops are in general, in this dis- 
trict, very good, although slightly thinned by 6° of 
frost on June 13. i heaviest 
crop I have had in five years. rries are 
simply an enormous crop, many of the bushes lying 
frui greatly due to the absence of 
bullfinches in t a usually * do Aer. havoc 
amongst the buds. It is prem to say more 
about the large fruits than that * promise well 
* the present date. J. Ironside, Blackadder House 
Om, 
T Lormian.—Small fruits of all kinds are this 
yesr an overflowing crop, and notwithstanding the 
are lar е Some Аргі- 
‘Cota are well set, others almost bare, and the result 
FLOWERS ROSY-LILAC, AND FRAGBANT, 
twenty-three years, Gage Plums are scarce, 
pres they escaped injury by eee frost. 
Williamson, Tarvit 
—Fruit trees of all sorts wered m 
profusely, but owing to the dry weather and 4* of of 
frost 
on 
Cherries suffered bad 
of their fruit. 
black, Raspberri ies. &c., heavy crop. 
Strawberries the same, of extra fine quality, and 
nineteen aay е earlier than 1894, John Clark, Wemyss 
Castle Gardens 
FonmraAnsHIRE.— The fruit crop is generally a fair 
one, Plum trees that were heavily отери last 
bushes 
season are in m cases, 
are not much infested with red 
canes 
severe frost in February, the crop is — a 
scarce, but of good quality. 
early part of summer were infested with cm 
+ 
and caterpillar. Apple and Pear trees are lookin; 
clean and healthy, and are carrying fair crops of е 
fruit. Plums, especially on walls, are fine, Thos, 
, Glamis Castle Gardens, Glamis 
LOTHIAN,—The fruit crop is, on the whole, the 
finest we have had for many years 
an average crop, and promise to be 
size and quality than usual. 
Cherries are bearing heavy crops of first-rate 
uality. Apricots, Peaches, and Nectarines are 
plentiful here, 
in {some p 
of all kinds are ve 
Gooseberries and 
sen t 
spring was late, and very favour- 
able for the fruit, which set thickly in April and 
May, and swelled € with the rains, which came 
just in time in e to save the Strawberry crop 
Trees have milija a ‘fine healthy growth, and so — 
have been very clean and free from insect attack. 
М, Dunn, Daikeith Gardens. 
— r months the fruit crops in this district 
have suffered from drought, and although growth 
was almost ata — yet the fruit held on till 
the welcome rains cam to report that 
Apples and Pears, c all kinds of small fruits are 
now swelling and Loge | an abundant crop of good 
quality, М. Chapman, Easter Duddingston Lodge 
Gardens, P. 
RH.—Owing to having had 6° of frost 
on June 13, the fruit prospects here were consider- 
ably altered, Apples, Pears, and r vet very well, 
but the fruits of Plums and P off a good 
at and the Apple crop is falling a seit deal at ver 
; atill, on som 
* 
had gathered 92 pints one 2 and 113 pints another 
day). Raspbe rries good and clean. Bi lack urrants 
€— I 
as last year I didn’ get а лун wein. to the 
* frost in May. a very heavy 
erry trees $c been very U^ of black- 
fy all the season, and all other kinds of fruit trees 
are clean and healthy. John Page, Monteviot Gardens, 
Jedbu 
rgh, 
6. SCOTLAND, W. 
AxRSHIRE.—Tlhe fruit crops in this district pro- 
abundant. 
showery weather set in, al 
the trees are getting clean and 
healthy-looking again, &nd the fruita 
4. Wi ncruive Gardens, Ayr. 
—— On the whole the out-door fruit crops are 
better than they have been for years. Plums евре- 
hard Kitchin, 
ood ham, Kilmarnock, 
LANAREKSHIRE.—l have been six years here, and 
have not previously seen such а heavy crop of small 
frui 
and are only grown out-of- 
favoured localities and under special care and 
agement, аз the district suffers much from late 
spring m! William Castle, Blantyre Lodge Gar- 
dens, Blant 
ARGYLLSHIRE,— The outdoor fruit crops in the 
gardens here are over average, Strawberries were an 
abundant crop, large and good. Wecommenced gather- 
ing Keen’s Seedling on June 22. Plams on walls 
“4 so thickly that quite two-thirds had to be taken 
Madame Treyve, Beurré d'Amanlis, 
B, d'Aremberg, and General Todtleben are — 
