Part I. 



GENERAL ANNALS. 



§ i. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 



The year 1892 was distinguished i 

 if fruits. It was a marked contrast to 1891, when th< 

 vere almost uniformly fair to very good. The deteri 

 :ausesof the failures of 1892 are perhaps largely attributable 

 o the weather. Late frosts cut off the peach crop in most 

 >arts of the Delaware and Chesapeake peninsula, and the early 

 eason in most of the Eastern states was excessively wet, with 

 routh following at midsummer. The heavy rain-fall delayed 

 ilanting and orchard operations, and discouraged the appli- 

 ations of insecticidal and fungicidal sprays. It also no 

 ioubt greatly encouraged the incursions of fungi, which were 

 or the most part serious, especially in apple orchards. There 

 /ere apparently comparatively few serious extended ravages 



The apple crop of 1892 was very poor and small, as a whole. 

 The spread of leaf-blight early in the season was perhaps 

 ost serious cause of the shortage. The condition which 

 .resent in the great orchards of western New York in 

 was wide spread in 1892. The foliage early in the sea- 



