Annals of Horticulture. 



England crop is 22% per cent, short, the western crops 37*^ 

 per cent, short, while the shortage of the New Jersey crop 

 amounts to 40 per cent. Late advices report the Cape Cod 

 crop to be large. A disastrous hail storm in July is estimated 

 to have destroyed 20,000 barrels of growing fruit, and to have 

 seriously injured the vines. The fire-worm also wrought much 

 damage. 



California. — The fruit product in California has been good, 

 on the whole. The total value of the fruit crops of the state 

 has been estimated at $13,000,000, exceeding the estimate for 

 1888. The orange crop is estimated at 900,000 boxes. 

 The raisin crop in California was seriously injured by late 

 rains, and much of the crop will be thrown into the poor 

 grades. The total shipments of California fruits, dried, 

 canned and green, for the first ten months of 1889 were 

 131,083,400 pounds, against 111,225,100 pounds in 1888, 

 and 114,187,000 pounds in 1887. Messrs. Schacht, Lemcke 

 & Steiner, of San Francisco, make the following estimates 

 of the total dried fruit output of California in 1889 : Raisins, 

 19,000,000 pounds, of which 18,000,000 pounds are packed 

 in boxes; prunes, 15,200,000 pounds of French and 200,- 

 000 pounds of German and Hungarian; apricots, 2,000,- 

 000 pounds; sun-dried peaches, 500,000 pounds; bleached 

 peeled and unpeeled peaches, 2,700,000 pounds ; nectarines, 

 200,000 pounds ; pitted plums, 200,000 pounds ; apples 400,- 

 000 pounds evaporated and 100,000 sun-dried ; peas, 50,000 

 pounds. The 1889 raisin crop is estimated to fill 900,000 

 boxes ; had the weather been favorable, the crop would prob- 

 ably have reached 1,200,000 boxes. 



Vegetable crops, in general, have been good, with prices bet- 

 ter than last year. The watermelon crop of the south has 

 been large. The importation of cabbages has been large, a 

 single steamer arriving from Copenhagen early in 1890 with a 

 cargo of 4,297 packages. 



Potatoes have been a very poor and light crop throughout 

 the east, owing to damage by rot. In many large potato- 

 growing regions the crop which is fit to store is not sufficient 

 to supply the local demand. The crop in some parts of 

 the west has been large, however. It was light in Cali- 

 fornia. Advices from England and Scotland report full and 

 sound crops, and importations will probably be great, yet 



