A summer remarkable in many respects has passed. Many of our people have labored hard, and the rewards of that labor have been meager and unsatisfactory. Horticulture with all the other labors on the land has been rewarded like the other cultivators of the soil in our section of the state. I sent out twenty-five of the circulars and twenty were filled out and returned.
Apple raisers report, four a good crop, the balance poor or none.
Plums: One fair, others poor or none.
Cherries: One good, all others poor.
Grapes: One good, balance poor to none.
Blackberries: One good, balance poor to none.
Other fruits all poor.
Nursery stock: One place reports one car load planted, the balance a few, all making good growth.
Strawberries: Five report good crop, balance few to poor.
Blight: Some reported but little efforts made to eradicate.