Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-29

crops in other sections have failed
from this Ecause, the 'sridges" have
produce beautifully; but this season tells
another tale-this browning glory of
Egypt has departed. The late cold
weather has destroyed not only the crop
ofspeaches and pears, but also has killed
the last years growth of wood, and in
many instances the whole tree. We
have before as twigs from peach, pear
and apple trees, cut within twentyfour
hours-the wood Of the peach and pear
twigs,is black, showing the saptyessels to-
be destroyed, and the wood dead beyond
recovery. This will be a sad blow to
our portion of the State-hundreds of
thousands of dollars lost, and we fearit
will not soon recoverfrom the effects.
The apple is uninjured, and promises an
abundant cfop-Cdiro News, &c.
THE PEACH CRoP-Great solicitude is
felt Just now about the fate. of the peach
buds in Ohio. At the meeting of the
Pathological Society at Toledo last week,
the Blade says it was the common opinion
of those present that the crop of peaches
| for 1864 had been very generally ruined
by the recent cold. term. Every section
J of the State was represented in the meet
ing, and this opinion is from those mos
interested in, and best qualified to judge
of the matter.
! rs Insrefersnce to this important matter
IN. B. Bateham, a well known Horticnl
2 turiist, writes to the Columbus Co..
4 Journdl:l Il ..-.---.. - - : =
III have examined peach trees in quit,
| a number of different localities in ant
around our city, and have not found 1
live fruit bud. And from information
1 have received from other parts of th,
State, ], find no ground for hope that an
/, part Of Ohio viii be favored with peac
: crop. the coming season. 1t is hardl
= possible that in sheltered positions, i
T the northeast quarter Of the State, Som
! orchards have escaped, as the cold sna
t seems to have been the least severe i
/ that direction-though ]. have seen n
j mention of the degree of cold being any
r where less than in Columbus, which wa
g only 50 below zero. In my opinion tn
S peach buds would have Gwithstoo
B this, if it, had come on more graz
s ually,, and been preceded by dr.
: weather, instead of warm rain.
Il. At the meeting of the Ohio Pomolog
q cal Society at Toledo, the past weel
. delegates we're in attendance from Ind
! ana, Michigan and. Illinois, as we'll 6
t NEARLY all parts. of Ohio, ana from the
e accounts of the severity OF the cold an
i its manifest effects on fruit trees, ther
e was reason, to apprehend that not onl
g all the peach buds in the fWestern State
o are destroyed, but many of the tret
y also. Much injury is evidently done [
3 pear and cherry trees, grape vines, &c
+ as well as peach trees, and even app
y trees may be destroyed, as was the ca!
e in 1856, whenEthe thermometer was
y low as 25 to 80 deg. below zero.
] + The NORTHWESTERN PEACH CRop D
- sTRoYED.--A correspondent of the CT
2 cago Tribune, who has visited the II
!, nois peach district to investigate the G
: fects of the recent. cold upon the. tree
y His opinion is, that never within Il
II history of fruit growing in the West, h
e there been such widespread disastt
: There are within the district which
~ visited,a embracing radius of from /
IA teen to twenty miles about 5000 pea
~ trees. He thinks all are more or lie
~ injured, and many of the large trees a
f. dead to certainty; he wonld not be 81
:, ,prised to find most of them, of all siz'
1s Killed outright, while, at best, they W
"a be two or tire eyears in recovering the {
Nd gree Of vitality they possessed before t
- disaster. Taking all the facts that" +
i, raj " reports into consideration, unlt
!. the MICHIGAN orchards have been mo
&c fortunate, the Northwest will be withc
bo peaches, at least the coming seast
NJ and with but small supplies for the ne
be e two or three years. 70 xflar assl-