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2. Clay loam for pears, apples and quinces. Gravelly loam for stone fruits 
and small fruits. Argillaceous shale soil for grapes. Price of land depends 
on location. Would range to fifty and one hundred dollars per acre. Many 
of the best orchards cannot be bought. 
3. Apples— Maiden Blush**, Oldenburg**, Hubbardston**, Rhode Island 
Greening**, Baldwin**, Ben Davis**, Northern Spy**. Pears— Bartlett**, 
Bose**, Anjou**, Lawrence**, Kieffer**, Angouleme**, Winter Nelis** and 
Seckel**. Plums— Field**, Bradshaw**, Hudson River Purple**, Bavay**, 
King of Damsons**, Italian Prune**, Czar**, Gueii**. Peaches— Early Craw- 
ford**, Late Crawford**, Eiberta**, Stevens**, Horton Rivers**, Chili**. 
Cherries— Windsor**, Schmidt**. Grapes— Concord**, Niagara**, Delaware**, 
Worden**, Catawba**, Brighton**, Moore Early* and Lindley*. 
4. Quite general among progressive growers, and clean cultivation is given, 
followed by cover crops. Small fruits are many times planted between the 
rows of larger fruits, as well as hoed crops in young orchards. 
5. Some extent. Red clover, crimson clover, rye. 
6. Stable manure, ashes, potash and phosphoric acid in various forms, quite 
generally used and considered profitable. 
8. Insects — codling moth, tent-cat erpniar, canker worm, pear psylla, borers, 
curculio, San Jose scale. Getting worse in many localities. Diseases, apple 
and pear scab, peach yellows, peach leaf-curl, Monilia rot of stone fruits, black 
rot and downy mildew of grapes, gooseberry mildew, cherry and plum leaf 
spot, apple canker. 
9. Not practiced to any extent. 
11. Apples and black and red raspberries. Quinces sometimes. 
12. Past winter did comparatively little injujry. Peach, apricot and sweet 
cherries suffered most. 
NORTH CAROLINA. 
BY PROF. W. F. MASSEY, RALEIGH, CHAIRMAN. 
I have tried in vain to get reports from the members of the Committee. 
One member writes today that the last report was so bad for the state, and 
the report this year must be worse, that he does not want to make any. 
The fact is there is hardly any fruit at all this year except a few apples in the 
mountain country and grapes everywhere. Living here in the poorest fruit 
section of the State, it is hard for me to form an individual opinion in re- 
gard to many things that succeed in other sections. For instance, no Bigar- 
reau or Heart cherry will fruit here at all, while they do finely west of the 
line of the Southern Railroad, eighty miles west of here. Gooseberries and 
currants will not grow here at all, while in the mountains they are fine. Few 
apples are of any value here, while the mountain country is the finest apple 
region in the country. Peaches are fine in the elevated sand hill country 
seventy miles south of here, while here they seldom fruit and are inferior 
when they do. The climatic troubles that surround this particular section 
are very harrassing to one trying to get information. 
