Daily Republican., 1880-04-12
A PEACH PANIU.
the work OF tho Killing Frest-
Tho Peach crop GeneraiIS Ruia-
ed the Peninsula over.

The cold weather Of a few days pas,
seriously injured the peaches down the
State. Much damage was done on We'd
nesday and Thursday nights OF last
week. The harm was more general III
Kent and Sussex counties than in New
Castle. tits thought that enough buds
were left unirjured by the frost ut that
time to have yielded q moderate crop,
but for q more serious calamity. This
befel the peach orchards last night,
when the thermometer went down be-
low the freezing point and ice was
formed in still water nearly half.inoh
in thickness. Safe II ia TO venture the
assertion that there will not BIZ remain
ing Cn one OF the trees tba. are Bow in
fnll bloom enough healthy buds SO az
ford any thing like what has heretofore
been considered light crop.
On Saturday evening the thremom.
etsr marked forty degrees and il grew
much colder during the night. fbis
played havoc with the few peaches re-
manning uniDjured al that time ssd
last night and to-day the weather has
killed all the buds exoept those that
have not ssrt forth their blossoms.
Therefore the late varieties are the oaly
pesohe6 for which shers 10 any hope.
A despatch from Georgetown dated
April 1stA says there was very gen.
sral inspection Of the peach orchards In
this vicinity today, and the verdict is
that the frosts Of last week in many
instances killed nine-tenths Of the bHds
on the cultivated tTees. The natural
trees, which are comparatively few In
number, vithstood the unreasonable
weather bstter, and promise a yield o'
half a crop or more. The early York
variety has suffered most, an average Of
only five per cent. OF he buds bsing
uuiRjursd. About ons bud in ten on
the Troth trees has escaped injury,
while Hale's early trses--ths last 10
fowsr--havs entered to the exteBt OF
eighty per cent. All other varieties
lave been greatly dsmsged,ss have al.
50 tho Wear and Bartlett pear tYaea.
at six c'cloek this evening some snow
tell and the Thermometer marked forty
two dsxress. Els still growing colder,
and frost to- night may kill all the buds
except the few that are still dormant.
P.
Advisas from Milford and Harrington
go TO show tina. the d2mage has ssep
40 great thers as to sauss but little
hope for even enough peaches FOR home
consumption, and cry Of similar ma
ture comes from Dover, SeafUrd and
Laurel. Reliable information from
Summit Bridge, odessa and Delaware
City reveals ths fact that the peaches
we're in condition to be very suseepti-
bio to the frost of Wednesday and
Thursday nights, and that they suffer
ed much frsm that. However, the
growers there were hopeful up TO Sun
day, but now all unite in the opinion
that there is no hope at all and that
none OF the tress OF the early varieties
will yield any fruit. In South western
sutssx Couuty-Mapy OF the trees have
shed their blossoms, leaving the infant
rOash more at the mercy CT the frost
than those Of later stage of bloom.
A gentleman who came up the DelA-
ware Railroad frsm AidalstOvn, to-day,
informed a REPUBLICAN reporter that
all the peaches In the orchards around
there had suffered much by former
rrcsts. but that the srsezs last night
3sttled the question OF failure beyond g
doubt; the outlook was hopeless in the
3xtrsuie.