Aveusr 24, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLi. 
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THE FRUIT CROPS. 
NoRTHUMBERLAND.— The Apple crop is 
extraordinary, with the trees in splendid health. 
Pears on walls irregular. Plums on walls and in the 
very fine, especially Denyer's Victoria. 
Of Gooseberries, red Currants 
the crop is quite exceptional, finer than we have 
had for many fan George Harris, The Castle 
Gardens, Alnw 
—— Apples an average good crop. Stirling 
Castle, Ecklinville, Hunthouse, Domino, and a few 
aring heavy crops. Pears not 
е be 
small fruits are good. Strawberries 
ho Raspberries are excellent; Raspberry Super- 
lative is a first-class variety, ‘it is the heaviest 
d it seems to with- 
berries and red Currants enormous crops. 
and bushes are very healthy. David Inglis, Howick 
Най, Lesbury, R. 
DuoRgnBAM,—A pples and Pears are about the average, 
on some trees none at all. This арр plies to the early 
flowering sorts, the co cut off 
the blossoms 
„8, О, 
severe winter having killed most of the canes, 
enfly and smut was very bad, but of late the 
thunderstorms have washed the fruit, R. Draper, 
Seaham Най, 
Yonxsurgg.—Strawberries in this district were a 
heavy crop, excellent in quality, an 
one, the fruits large, and owing to the dry weather 
the flavour was good. It is an excellent variety and 
stands the 3 well. Next in the order of 
Ruskin, the crop heavy, but quality 
; Biack came vy crop, and 
excellent in quality; President and Sir J. Paxton 
were large and good, and the latter kept in bearing 
Ms y well; Elton Pine, British Queen, and Aberdeen 
a 
Lord Suffield and Keswick Codlin Apples have good 
та of fruit. B. Wadds, Birdsal!, York. 
y trees bearing very hea fru 
елы he had shelter from the cold cutting winds 
which ber during the flowering time. Damsons 
, but the fruit is likely to be small 
owing to — great abundance, J. Riddell, Castle 
Howard Gardens, York, 
—— Apples showed remarkably good blossom, but 
Were seriously affected by the cold winds and storms 
from the north and north-east about the middle of 
the month of May. In favoured spots Apples are, 
ears and Plums 
Cherries showed plenty of blossom, but the cold 
clayey nature of the soil is not adapted to their 
successful cultivation; only 
5 crops of which so exhausted the 
trees during 1894, and the gro being made late, 
not um. ri 8 are excellent, 
mall 
except black Currants, wbich are almost a failure, 
J. P. Leadbetter, Tranby Croft Gardens, 
—— The cold, wet, sunless autumn of 1894 has 
left ita mark on the fruit crops of 1895, Ia spring 
the first surprise was the almost total absence of 
. Pears and Plums did not carry 
nearly their usual amount of bloom, and it was small 
va meh not setting well; a few trees on walls 
aspect are y Segen ct 
33 ww but the 40 N not in 
proportion ; the earlier varieties lag to be carry- 
oat abundant 
tiful, but clean and good. William Higgie, Stanwick 
Gardens, Darlingto 
--— The very hot and dry spring weather has 
much benefited all outdoor crops of fruit. Apples 
are looking uncommonly well, especially free-growing 
culinary varieties, which ia rather remarkable after 
the plague of caterpillar we һай; but thanks to the 
use we made of the garden hose, we cleared — 
plague off. Pears, too, are promising жы 
Plums, Cherries and Strawberries. 
more or better fruits, but the latter, vier con- 
tinued jii rain, мнгое ere they ripened, J. Rober 
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Dawes, Temple Neu 
ple in "this district are a good average 
crop. "Ec w kinds, viz, Lord Suffield, Keswick 
Codlin, Prince Albert, Nonsuch, Yorkshire ee 
Easter Pippin, Greenup’s Pippin, and Tower of 
Glamis for instance, are carrying зв ddi 
are а fair average терт both о п 
суси Plums roe "sam горв, — 
full cro Goos etsi were dreadfully 
infested with caterpillars йн the вату; І never saw 
them so bad before. Of Strawberries, President and 
Vicomtesse Н. de "Thury were by far the best out of 
many varieties, J. Hughes, Wentworth Woodhouse 
Gardens 
AMBRIDGESHIRE.— The fruit crops here are, with 
s and T жечи very good. 
as been for some 
were sadly thinned - the cold winds, 
Piums also suffered 
berries and late Strawberries are very small, 
and Nectarines are, as usual, very good, although a 
lot of the unripened shoots were miis by the eur 
Apricots were spoilt from the same cause, 
are а crop. Taken on the whole, iti is the Vest fruit 
crop that допре {ог some years. J. Hill, Babraham, 
Ca 
The fruit crop in this distriot is good on the 
whole, with the exception of e’s Prince 
Albert being by far our pes roping ADRA Ecklin- 
i i xt. ed-spider is a 
with, and in its ough the pump and a few 
lengths of the hose it becomes well mixed with the 
water. It is fatal to the black Carrant-bud mite, 
House h 
e are remarkably good, the trees 
he great drought ao i the 
Great Gearies, Words: 
upon the whole are a good 
Douglas, 
LiNCOLNSHIRE,—À pples 
average eh although in some cases it is a very 
artial he severe storms of May 17 апа 18 
having greatly da the blossoms and liage 
area Vay light crop; m ie scarcel y any of the 
trees much daring the SS and Peach 
FT. каа are bearing 
abundantly. All trees are now making good and 
healthy growth, not having suffered so much — 
here аз in some ities. The rai 
was 270 inches, The * 
2 Jane 
fall for June E, Е. Hazelton, 
caterpillar is very troublesome. 
Brocklesby Park Gardens, 
rx,—The Apple crop in this district is not 
у! under the average, but is very partial. Here 
d there a tree carries а fil good стор ч while on 
failure is entirely owing to the — frosts an 
p 
е 
do P thin 
both dessert kinds aud айм. — were 
excellent. All small fruits are very abundant. H. 
Fisher, Flipton Най Gardens, Bungay, 
Apples variable; most old trees well clothed 
after months of dropping, which pulls the crop up to 
an average. Pears much whipped by winds, as well 
as checked by drought. Piums decidedly scarce ; = 
blooms, which set fairly well, The only fall c 
but Apricots are thin. Gooseberries, Carrauts, 
ассои crops, smaller than ap from lack 
in nut trees 7X3 injured by the February 
5 very са Nuts. D. T. Fish, Bury St. Edmunds, 
— The severity T the winter months, coupled 
with the low night 8 which continued up 
to the end of April, had a disastrous effect on fruit 
©; the Ae of * * trees was slow Өй. weak, 
n Apple trees ther a prevalence of insects 
which riddled ac young — Pears also suffered, 
then drought se uring the months of May 
"we emen only side Wits of an iach of rain fell. 
I A ve set 
f 
dropped off, mpm the ground, and th 
* r a er, Pears also fell off, but at 
earlier — Strawberries suffered greatly on 
ight soil, the fruit was small, and almost cooked 
the Age when ripe. Cherries have been vpn 
aid Piums are & short crop, &nd Apr 
т-у а t complete failure. John Wallis, Orwell poen 
Gardens 
—— The fruit crop of 1895 promised to be a 
Beni good one, but the long бомба 
drought was disastrous to early Pears, and most of 
the fr Marie Louise, Doyennó da 
Comice, é Diel, and later varieties of Pears are 
likely to be very good. ples, especially 
culinary , are & fair crop aud very good, 
‚ Rogers, Rendlesham Gardens, W idge, 
4, MIDLAND COUNTIES, 
W Although the drought in- 
terfered in some degree with the Strawberry crop, 
in other respecta it did bat little mischief, Among 
, the early varieties 
of the Peach demand a remark, Early "Beatrice, 
Early Amsden, Waterloo, and Alexander have 
uced excellent crops of fruit of good size and 
quality—in fact, they ripen outside even before our 
early varieties with the assistance of gl 
these are, therefore, an acquisition sufficiently great 
to be appreciated. G. T. Miles, Wycombe Ab 
-.— Generally speaking, the fruit crops of South 
Backs are well up to the average. Apples in some 
districts are over average; here we have н fair crop. 
Of orchard trees Quarrenden, King of the Pippins, 
Cox’s Orange Pippin, Datch Mignonne, Wellington, 
and Sturmer Pippin are heavily 
m 
others are very thin. Of a number. of bush-trees on 
h nadier, 
t stock, Lord Greer egos and Gre 
two early сс Ap г crop he 
Lord Derby, W: 
Cor, Orange Pippin, Worcester Pearmain, Prince 
‚ Stone’s Apple, Ribston, and Bramley's 
Seedling. Pears on walle sh- trees are scarce, 
while a few orchard-trees, Bear: é M pis Louise 
Bonne of Jersey, and t 
e 
uired а considerable thinning of 
fruits, but notwithstanding the loag spell of drought 
look remarkably well; this latter remark appliea to 
— fruit trees. ow cote are rather under average 
ms and Cherries good. Small fruits and 
ӨНБӨЙ aj good, although the latter suffered 
