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Fruit Prospects

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Day
24
Month
January
Year
1873
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Public Domain
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Aa usual, tho fruit growlcrs aro cora nienoing thoir prognostications for 1873. It is a little early yct for grain and other erop growlew, bnt thcy will bo on hand in ampie season. We have heard, however, all about the fruit- hovv the trees are killed, and how tho cold weather baa played havoc generally. A OW, the reader can rest easy under these discouraging reporta, as the" most of theni are all bosh, originating sometimos in a lively imagination and sometimes iii an inherent disposition to growl and grumble for tho sako of fault-finding. Iteliable intolligenco gives contradictions to these reporte. Tho Seoretary of the I'omological Society of this State receives information from Traverse county, to the offect that peach buds and the young peach trees are in no wiso injured vet. Tha young wood is pei-eict to tho tips'. In that región it is said that peach - es will be abundant. A critica! examination of the peach trees and buds in tho vicinify of Spring Lake, resultcd in the discovêry thatthere will ba more thun an average erop of the fruit tbere, and that the damagei by tho severe cold weather is comparatively small. From bouth Haven and other poinls the same encouraging reports aro roceived. In the cele-, brated St. Jo. región, where it was reported that even the trees were killed, the St. Joseph Jlerald says that thero will bo a first-class yield of fruit At Cascade, Michigan, the thermometer was reported at 35" below zero, but fruit growers anticípate little damage to pluni, peach or apple trees or grapes, for the reason that the maturity of the trees was perfect, and that the approach of cold cyolo and its doclination has been gradually and steady. All hard y varíe - ties are curtainly safe. As a test of hardy sorts, thts winter will prove an iuvalua ble guide, aud the roports of fruit growers, at the annual meeting of Pomological societies, will be looked for with niuch interest. The proprietors of the Lowell ïmrseries reports that on the momorablo Tuesday morning that the cold was so intense throughout tho Northwest, the thermometer indicated at that point 26 below zero. He belioves the damage to be trilling in oonsequence of theripeness of tho wood and the perfect state of the fruit buds. Like the Beavers, the fruit trees seem to have auticipated the intense cold weather. He mentions particularly plum and apple buds uuinjured.and thinksthat if one-third the peach tree buds unkilled boar fruit, ho will be able to oxhibit an abundance of peaches in September next.

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