The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-14
PEACHES AND STRAWBERRIES.
Peaches Injured In Somerset Coanty, DeI-Th,
berry Crop Looking Weli-StrawberriesW VII
he Ripe IN ElYe Weeks.

Peaches Injured IN Somerset Coanty, Del,Thee
BE Ripe IN Five Weeks.
Mr.. Brown, General Freight Agent of the
Delaware Railroad, has handed us for persual q
letter from q gentleman largely engaged in
fruit culture in Somerset county, from which
we make the following extract:-
81 am sorry to say that we cannot
report SO favOrably in regard to our peach crop
as we would like. The Hale's Early are all
right, and the trees are out in full bloom Qetter
dated 18th instanD, but Troth's Early, and other
later varieties, have been very seriously injured
In fact, our Troth's Early are entirely gone.
The buds we're SO much advanced by the warm
weather of January and early in February, that
we think they were killed by the cold we had
later in February and in March. The bark on
the limbs in many places is cracked open.
''0ur strawberries, raspberries and blackber-
ries look well and give promise of large crops.
The strawberries are beginning to put out good
many blossoms, and in about five weeks we hope
to begin shipping them to market. y
Our New Jersey Scarlets will probably be ready
for market week earlier than the other varie-
ties"
PEACH GROWERS MEETINGS.
A meeting of the peach growers who ship
their fruit by railroad is called to assemble at
Middletown on Saturday next, 10th inst, at 10
o'clock in the morning. Mr.. Townsend is mainly
instrumental in calling the meeting, he being
one of the largest shippers of fruit by rail, and
believing that the interests of such shippers are
not sufficiently considered by the Peninsular
Fruit Growers Association which assemblies at
Dover.
AS we understand it, the purpose of the Satur-
day meeting is to enable the railroad shippers
to mature a plan of action to be submitted to
the general association, one feature of which
shall be to change the regulations of the asso-
ciation so as to give it other places of meeting
besides Dover. Mr.. Townsend has for long
time been dissatisfied with the management of
the present association, and has at more than
one of its meetings threatened secession of the
railroad shippers.
The Penfnsular Fruit Growers Association
holds its regular meeting at Dover, On Tuesday
next, 10Th inst. The meeting will be a most i'm
portant one, as the proposed tariff of the railroad
| companies for the coming year will be consi-
dered, and an effort be made to select one of the
! various plans submitted by the railroads.
The meeting is reasonably sure to be a stormy
| one, and all the plans offered are likely to be
| severely criticised. We are told that the grow
| ers along the Delaware river and bay propose
to reject all the plans of the railroad companies
and leave the companies to charge what they
| WILL depending on water competition for keep
| ing down the tariff. We presume the adoption
| of such proposition will cause the secession o
| those representing the districts dependent In
| railroad transportation, as such action would be
| an open abandonment of their interests.
Another important matter that will come
| before this meeting is the estimates for the
coming crop to furnish O basis for the arrange
ments for its transportation We presume
| however, that the present meeting will scarcely
| be able to make any estimates TO be relied upon
and that another meeting will be held about
month later for consultation ON this subject
Wilmington (DeL) Commercial.