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ANNALS OF HORTICULTUKE. 



the North Pacific coast region, the Ohio Valley, and the Mid- 

 dle Atlantic States. In the Middle Atlantic States there was 

 an excess of rainfall over the normal during the months of 

 April, May, and September, which more than balanced the 

 aggregate deficiency for July and August. In the Ohio Valley 

 and Tennessee the records show a large excess during April 

 and May, while the rainfall during the following months was 

 either normal or below the average. The North Pacific coast 

 region had a very heavy rainfall during April, which con- 

 tinued into May, while for the other months the variations 

 either above or below the normal were slight. The rainfall dur- 

 ing June, July and August, the hottest months of the year, was 

 generally below the average, and the damage resulting from 

 this deficiency in many sections of the country was considerable. 



Apples. — The apple crop of 1893 was probably the light- 

 est within a generation in the United States. This failure 

 was widespread, although Canada had a fair yield in places. 

 Secretary Knowlton, of the Maine Pomological society, reports : 

 " The apple crop of 1893 is a small one in Maine. The blos- 

 som was not heavy, and the worms were never more abundant. 

 Then, in some parts of the State, there were several hail storms, 

 and the disaster of the August rain and wind storm was wide- 

 spread." The Missouri Valley Horticultural Society, in a dis- 

 cussion upon the apple, reported that "except in a very few 

 localities there would be practically no apples at all in the West. 

 Southern Michiang and Southern Iowa will have a few, but 

 from Kansas only one orchard reports a crop, and a short one 

 at that. In the vicinity of Lee's Summit, Mo., where the horti- 

 culturists met, there are 2,500 acres of orchards, which yield an 

 average crop of 100,000 bushels of apples. This year not an 

 apple will be shipped to the East." The great apple regions of 

 New York were probably never so barren. All this is the more 

 remarkable from the fact that the crop of 1892 was also very 

 light. 



The Estimated Crops of the two years, as returned by the 

 Department of Agriculture for November, compared with an 

 average crop, are as follows ; 



