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AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Michel**, Thompson**, Parker Earle*, Greenville*. Eastern Section, Apples 
—Red June**, Red Astrachan**, Early Harvest**, Oullasaga*, Shannon*. 
Peaches— Elberta**, Rivers**, Lee**, Taylor*, Alexander*. Plums— Abundance 
**, Burbank**, Robinson**, Ghabot*, Wildgoose*. Grapes— Diamond**, Cham- 
pion**, Herbemont**, Delaware*, Dracut Amber*. Japan persimmons— Hiya- 
kume**, Yemon*. Strawberries— Cloud**, Michel**, Hoffman**, Thompson*, 
Stevens. Lower Mississippi, Oranges— Louisiana Creole**, Navel**, Man- 
darin**, Tangerine**, probably 5,000 acres. 
No crops are grown in the orchards, in the sandy sections, as a rule, and 
only such cultivation as will keep the land clean is given. Where crops are 
grown, cotton and potatoes are most used, with occasional sowings of cow 
peas as a fertilizer. 
5. No cover crops are required. 
6. Commercial fertilizers are used but sparingly. Cow peas are often 
grown and turned under and occasional dressings of cotton seed meal are 
given. The opinion seems to be that fruit trees grow too rapidly and that 
fertilizers make the growth even more luxuriant and more subject to the 
attack of fungous diseases. 
8. The curculio and the tree borers are the two most troublesome insects. 
While the careful growers use every means to destroy them, others do 
nothing, and the result is an abundance of wormy fruit and short-lived trees. 
The various scale insects of the orange are also very troublesome, but are 
generally treated successfully by the usual scale washes. Among the more 
troublesome diseases are pear blight and the fruit rots. All fungous dis- 
eases are very troublesome, as at the time they do the most harm the rains 
are so frequent that the fungicides cannot be kept on the trees. 
9. Irrigation is not used for fruit in Louisiana, and is only employed in the 
rice districts, where large pumping plants are used to lift the water from the 
bayous to the irrigating canals. 
11. No fruits are evaporated in Louisiana. 
12. The winter of 1898-9 was the most severe on record, the mercury 
going- down to — 13 degress in North Louisiana and to 6 degree above zero 
in the southern portion of the State. The oranges, figs and many ornamental 
trees were killed to the ground, and many others were severely injured. 
Very few specimens o'f fruit ripened this year. Only a few peaches were 
grown— mostly Elberta. Apples were not hurt, but plums, pears and peaches 
suffered severely. Some of the trees being in bloom at the time of the frost 
were killed back to the trunk. The question of hardiness did not seem to 
confine itself to the variety, but to the locality where the wood ripened best 
and the early growth was retarded. The sandy sections suffered less than 
the alluvial and clay soils. 
MAINE. 
BY PROF. W. M. MUNSON, ORONO, CHAIRMAN. 
All parts of the State now settled are suitable for some kinds of fruits. 
There are, however, limitations in kinds and varieties. The small fruits 
thrive in all parts of the State; apples and pears are most extensively grown 
in the southern and western counties; and plums and cherries, as commer- 
