FRUIT REPORTS. 
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NORTH CAROLINA. 
REPORT BY J. S. BREECE, FAYETTEVILLE. 
1. Fruit Sections.— The Cape Fear section is naturally adapted for the 
production of strawberries, blackberries, dewberries, Muscadine grapes, 
Morello cherries, plums— especially Japanese varieties— peaches and pears. 
Figs and Japanese persimmons usually thrive but were killed down the past 
winter, by a temperature three degrees below zero. Pecans, filberts and some 
varieties of chestnuts are quite successfully grown. Apples and raspberries 
do well but are not entirely adapted to the climate. 
2. Well-drained, porous soil is best for peaches, and locations above the 
general surroundings are safest from frost in the spring. All other fruits do 
well on any soil that is in condition for cultivation. The price of good 
orchard land varies, $5 to $20 per acre. Orchards are generally planted as 
adjuncts to the home and their value cannot be readily determined. 
3. Varieties: Strawberries — Thompson. Raspberries — Red — Marion, Miller 
and Loudon. Dewberries— Lucretia. Grapes— Muscadine, Scuppernong' 
Mish, Thomas, James, Delaware, Concord, Niagara. Cherries— Dye- 
house, Early Richmond. Plums— Ogon, Botan, Chabot. Pears — LeConte, 
Garber, Kieffer. Peaches— Sneed, Triumph, Rivers, Mountain Rose, Craw- 
ford Early, Elberta, Oldmixon Free,' Stump, Worthen, Cowper, Keyport, 
Salway, Bilyeu. Apples— Early Harvest, Sweet June, Horse, Bonum, Wine- 
sap, Yates. Crabapples— Florence. 
4. Cultivation.— Orchards are generally given clean cultivation, except 
when sown with cow peas. Young orchards are cropped with corn or cotton, 
but no cover crops are used. 
6. Fertilizers.— Three parts cotton seed or cotton seed meal to one part 
acid phosphate is used mostly to supplement what is produced by mules and 
horses. Orchards are not usually fertilized except by applying manure to 
crops grown in them. Small fruits are fertilized liberally with stable 
manure or cotton seed meal and phosphate. 
8. Insects and Diseases.— The curculio is so eminently chief among all 
insects that everything else is insignificant in comparison. If it is not 
getting worse, it certainly is not less troublesome. I think it is encouraged 
by forests near the orchards. 
9. Irrigation— Not used, as it is not needed. 
12. Hardiness of Species and Varieties.— No fruits were injured. 
NOVA SCOTIA. 
CHAS. E. BROWN, YARMOUTH, CHAIRMAN, REPORT BY F. C. SEARS, 
WOLFVILLE. 
While fruit growing has been practiced to a certain extent in Nova Scotia 
ever since the French settled at Grand Pre, it is only within recent years that 
it has become one of the leading industries of the Province. In 1867 only 
seventeen thousand barrels were exported, but the fruit plantations were 
gradually enlarged and in 1896 five hundred thousand barrels of apples were 
shipped from the Province, the greater portion of which were raised in 
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