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les are large and early, but many of 
the fruits фз I think for the want of rain; 
good crops on Keswick Codlin, Lord Suffield, Blen- 
heim Pippin, Hawthornden, Cellini, and Irieh Peach. 
Pears, good on the walls, but the fruits have dropped 
badly from the cold nights and want of rain. Piums 
good on walls, and very early, Peaches, a fair crop, 
trees clean, and look well. Damsoas, splendid 
crop. Strawberries were a bad crop. Raspberries, 
on the contrary, were a good crop, but suffered from 
Win. Smythe, Basing Park Gardens, Alton 
Kxxr.— Apples aud Nuts are the crops of the 
season, and the rains we have had will assist them 
greatly in emails out. Pears are rather thin in this 
district. W. Craik, Hothfield Place, Ashford. 
-— Apples, especially early kinds, are very 
plentiful, later kinds more scarce; the fruits promise 
well, although Рат have fallen through drought, 
Blenheima are very good indeed; Lord Derby, 
Warner's King, — many others well laden, Pears 
short, but promise to be of good size and TEN, 
Plums scarce. dry 1 rer bee 
ited of Cherries, and 
mar Peaches and ra plentiful, but 
will be rather smaller than usual through drought. 
There have been heavy crops of Strawberries, but the 
season short; late kinds did not grow so large, 
praece good-fr oured. Currants good, H, Markham, 
les form а splendid crop around here, 
almost all the well-known varieties are cropping 
remarkably well. It is г really surprising how well 
the fruits have developed during the drought. Blen- 
heim Orange on large trees are ing very 
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mongst the very best 
for marketing, being sold at the foot of the ladder, 
and generally realise good prices, Cox’s Orange Pip- 
pin is cropping heavily, and necessi tates a great deal 
2 thinning to encourage fair 
this Apple, I find it necess 
as samples this year are not likely to be of 
much use for marketing purposes, Damsons are а 
very good crop, but Plume varying, Peach 
"P Nectarines are a grand с 
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every tree баш a full ship. shi Vitia: T 
late fit them much. 
Plums on walls were quite a чам. “Barly Favourite 
is й. variety that was ripe on July 20, and is spe- 
to be recommended as a first-class fruit for 
bue Chi 
— Fruit сгорв on the whole are a fair стор in 
this neighbourhood, but the dry weather told heavily 
upon oed bush-fraite 3 Strawberries, and where 
ied the of zhese 
and vini Piums in many places are are & failure 
" iswick, 
were gathered egi on Jaly 14. W. Watson, 
Harefield Place 
ad deks late bloom, 
with the result 
many fruits. to drop. Apricots are 
thin, but good, I never saw Peaches and Nec- 
heavy * 
are light- 
tarines more healthy, or vim dr cone crops, vado such 
trees have, during the drou required 
attention. i 
Piums а small 3 but the trees look well. 
berries were very good, and very early; 
Sovereign and British Qaeen are varieties that have 
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diatrict suffered much from drought, G. 
Sion Hi Gardens, 
Sunnkr.— With the exception of Pears, all the 
fruit crops are most satisfactory. Apples 
2 on young trees) have required severe 
thinning. Damsons are heavily laden. 
berries were of large size and good йат 
commenced picking Noble on June 14, and finished 
with Latest x AM on J 
mo e Goo 
berry bushes ; pileta ing to the ae eae drought, 
red-spider has made ite appearance on many of the 
fruit "es G. W, Cummins, The Grange, Wallington. 
Apples are loakan well, and promise to 
a heavy crop, especially Grenadier, S P 
ood's Nonsuch, Lord Saffield, Lor 
Wellington, Allen's Ererlasting, Prince 
Lord Derby, and Oldenburgh, kitchen;  Cox's 
Orange Рїррїп, Browales’s в Russet, Blenheim Orange, 
Kerry Pippin, and Mother, “ware Red Currants 
and еа were very fine Ras asp- 
berries suffered much from — гы the fruit was 
very меи С. J. Salter, Woodhatch Lodge Gardens, 
Reigate, 
— some trees there are very heavy crops of 
Apples, on both old and young trees; others have few 
and some — in the same locality, Pears not so 
good, Plums very thin. Young orchards in high 
cultivation, makin splendid growth, I never saw 
Peaches on walls looking — both in fruit and 
foliage; small fruit of all sorts plentifal on — 
With the exception of Raspb d —" ery 
small, V. Miller, Ruxley Lodge, Es 
Sosskx.—Plums in this district suffered much 
rough the severity of the g last Tinten 
particuiarly those in exposed places, iet 
being & short crop. Many of the D penus 
were almost killed by the frost, Fro, re Prolific 
suffering the most. Apples are an азада crop, 
bat the fruit is small for the time of y Pears 
quality. Peaches are small, 
weather; and the same may be said of Apricots and 
tarines, Strawberries have been very abundant, 
Black Currants were the heaviest * we have ever 
grown. Н, О, Prinsep, 
Wirrs.— Apri ong and Nectarines, on 
ign ‘the blooms were rotected from frosts, set 
ense crops of fruit, oaks necessitating severe 
re, of the latter. Apple trees in orchards 
heavily laden with frait of good quality, as also are 
espaliers in kitchen gardens, including trees of Aunie 
Elizabeth, Red Astrachan, Beauty of Bath, Juneating, 
lin : 
Irish Peach, vendent. Castle, Keawick Codlin (a 
per), En mperor mp; ipm 
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heavy crop, and the sams may be said of Filberte 
ми Cob nuts. eo ether, the fruit crops of 
be. аз being highly satisfactory. 
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7; ENGLAND, KW. 
—Fruit trees are 
berries and Ex 
fruit of the latter sold at 5s. per dozen quarts, 
Strawberries abundant, and secured without much 
loss from wet. Growers for market in this part 
confine themeelves to Barnes’ Prolific, 8 а 
local’ Besse W. P. Roberts, Cuerdon Hall Gardens, 
Prest 
Apples small through drought. Pears plen- 
tifal on on walls and trained trees, Damsons are a very 
heavy crop, a circumstance that occurs about once in 
seven years, B. Barham, Croxteth, Liverpool, 
WESTMORELAND. —Apple and Pear 
clean, Жж, the good bearing vari 
crops 8388 the sunless eumm 
ast year, and the unusual amount of d winds p 
frosts this season, W. 4, Miller, Underley Gardens, 
Kirkby Lonsdale, 
trees are v 
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experienced 
8, ENGLAND, S. W. 
CORNWALL, crops are very good on the 
whole, mí only deficiency being in Raspberries and 
Gooseberries; Peaches, Nectarines, Cherries, and 
Сенна —T being good, Strawberries were an 
immense crop, and very fine, Sir Joseph Paxton and 
Laxton's tendi of An being the best, Alfred Read, 
ns, Port Eliot, St, Germans. R.S. 
— Tus " Apple dd: in East Cornwall i is under 
average, but many varieties are carrying a good 
crop, and the fruits are large and clean; Blenheims, 
ox’s Orange and King of Pippins being the best. 
re good, and, at present, show no 
dry season suiting them on our heavy soil. 
fruits abundant and good. Charles Page, Boconnoc 
—— Apple-trees gave promise of abundant crops 
early in the season, bat fully two-thirds have fallen, 
many of the tree 
enough, but promise to be very small. 
good Cherry district, but they have been exception- 
good with me this Nectarines 
po soon them 
trouble than under the o 
are not allowed inside the wire, winter or 
Wm. Sangwi 1 Gardens, Truro 
DszvowsurgE.—The fruit crops are all alike — 
and up to or beyond a full average. All sto 
fruits, espeeially signa Piums and Damsons, are 
a full crop. The sa ches, Apricots, &c., 
end an almost sg р сана оѓ аре апа ether 
insect life, and blotehed leaves. The result 
rg satisfactory promise for another year. 
d Filberts most abundant, and far in excess of 
Bi — is ot eet seen, James Enstone, 38, Temple 
Road, Exeter 
 GrovcssrEBsHIRE— The fruit crop generally in 
thia district i pa tbe best I can call to mind for some 
уона. The trees are particularly free from all kinds 
he have made good, clean 
eap the пон ot Jane 1 which oos во disas- 
trous in some o of the 
crops in th triet 
are geuera'ly very sol чы, 4, considering the very 
2 early summer, is of good 
quality. е blossom was very abundant, bat the 
grub has ка very bad in some parte, Frank Harris, 
Eastnor Gardens. 
Fruit crops generally are good, and the fruit 
clean, excepting Apri ich h 
ted and unkind. een a 
heavy crop, and the dry weathér was favourable for 
keeping the fruit when ripe, Thos, Spencer, Goodrich 
Court Gardens, Ross 
