The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-24
TIE GROWING FRUIT.
rna Condition of the Crop in the Fruit
Growing Section.

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Growing Section.
The fruit crop after all does not appear to
=. a. seriously damaged. The middle and
sou.hern sections of Georgia seem to have
Uttered most, and in these sections as much
ssa half crop is expected.
The northern, eastern and western sec
lions strange to say, were less damaged By
.ho severe freezes than were the other sec
tiors Some Of the growers attribute this
:, +ba fact that less Of the fruit in the last
,sn,ed sections were putting forth buds. The
A,opS1vG NEWS sent out a short time ago
,,oniries to the prominent fruit grow ers in
,ba different sections of the state, aud the
-.,--,o-z show that the western districts are
~ elis Sa,,aged much, the southern districts
IN 49,. can't of q crop will be made, the
,,,;ddIe districts one quarter Will bs made.
AZ Northern districts are fair, eastern dis
.-,ct is not damaged much. The following
:, ~ sor1s of the replies received from the
growers: e e.-;,,o,, ,.,,- ;
,.Pasch trees are just beginning to bloom.
T. seams that the recent snaps of cold
..'oatber affected them very little. In some
..otions no damage appears. Although the
seootber prior to the cold snaps was warm
enough to have caused fruit buds to open,
II ia singular fact that 10 this loo atty very
few opened. They remained as if they
we're in dormant state, being affected by
neither the cold nor the warm weather.
The first crop in this section will De very
fair. The growers are not at all de-
spondent."
Hon. r. C. Mcintosh of Brooks county
saws; THE outlook for fruit crop in this
locality is gloomy. The freeze about March
is DESTROYED almost everything in the fruit
line. l think the crop is cut off at least so
per cent
A prominent grower from Thomas county
writes: Considerable interest has been felt
in this section as to the crop of LeConte
and Keifer pears. The fruit trees had not,
owing to the dry season, advanced very
much in this county and hence the severe
frosts damaged this crop 20 limited extent.
The early blossoms were killed, but the trees
were not damaged aud the trees have again
on a fair amount of blooms, and probably
half an average will be made. This, con-
sidering the heavy yield last year, will be
doing very well after ALL and, in fact, a
half crop is about all we can manage here,
as it is an immense undertaking. Seventy
five thousand crates of LeConte pears were
shipped from Thomas county last year, and
not more than two-thirGs of the crop was
harvested The other fruits are damaged
more or less, but count on pretty fair
crop-enough, at least, for home consump-
ton. The blackberry crop will be a
failure"
Hon. D. P. Holt of Sumter county writes
that the crop is very backward. THE
majority of the trees are just commencing
to bloom and as far as am able to judge,
peach and apple crops are cut off so per
cent. Small fruits are cut off more. The
ia una0a hv fha froaza was March y
r. n. Booth OF Morgan county says: at
Is the strangest year | ever saw. My peach
trees are still blooming, while the same
trees have good-sized peaches upon them.
] have never seen the occurrence before.
Usually the trees bloom out at once, but
this year they are blooming at intervals,
the same trees blooming more than once.
We are going to have enough fruit for eat
ing purposes, provided no more cold weather
comes"
A grower from Wilkinson county writes
that the March freeze damaged the peach
crop some, but the crop will not be great
deal shorter than last years crop. Trees
are putting forth now ard the outlook Is
favorable for fair crop.
President C. G. Gray of the Georgia Fruit
Union Of Fort Valley, Ga, gives the follow
ing reply: Reports from a number of our
closest observers aud largest fruit growers
lHulCdI6 dU DT6SGuU, udll CTOD VI DtdCIto,
and estimate other fruits from 10 per cent.
to 80 per cent. of an average crop. Opinions
vary as to the causes OF the damage, viz
the freeze March !, the cold spell week
later, warm winter. heavy crops borne by
trees last year, etc.
j. H. NJ. Cliett, one of the largest grow
ers of all kinds of fruit in Houston county,
writes as follows: I'VE are looking for
about one-quarter of peach, one-tenth of
a LeConte pear crop and one-tenth wild
goose plum crop This is an off year for
apples, and no crop of account is looked for.
Grapes and Strawberries are fine and full
crop is expected from young 3-year-old
trees that bore no fruit last year. Old
trees, however are almost failure. The
buds or the old trees were killed in Deem
Der. My opinion is that the bearing last
year is the cause of the trees not fruiting
this year. think the average will be about
In this proportion: Where shipped four
carloads CT peaches last year we will ship
but about one this year."
W. E. H SeaIcy, the largest fruit grower
in Spalding county, writes that the fruit
crop is not very promising in that county.
"The peaches, he says, ''overbore last year
and did not recover sufficiently to set fruit
buds in season. don't think that the cold
injured the fruit. The young trees will
bear, but the small number of these avails
us little from this source. Yon may say
with this exception, the peach crop is almos,
failure. The peach trees appear to bt
greatly injured, ANY many are dead. We will
have over half crop of grapes, apples aud
all varieties of pears, except Keifer and LIE
Conte will bear very we'll"
Col II. Bussey of Muscogee county says
81 find the report from the fruit crop Of
peaches rather conflicting, but the fruit il
greatly injured. The peach trees are bloom
ing very sparingly, some trees have gooc
many, others few and none at all on others
Fear is entertained of the blooms droppine
off later and make a total failure. Very
few apples in this section. | should say
that so per cent. of full crop of peache
will be as much as we can ex- cct in thi
section"
J.R. Respess, Jr., of Taylor county
writes: 1T is the opinion of those skilled in
fruit here, that the heavy crop of last season
exhausted the trees to considerable extent
and that that, together with the injury
from the cold and dry weather. has cut thu
crop off fully 90 per cent. The cold thai
did the damage was the sudden and severe
cold snap of last December succeeding {
protracted warm spell. Itseems to have par
TALLY paralyzed the trees, SO that even now
1t is hard effort for them to put fortl
feeble blossoms, that may even, under IA
vorable circumstances, produce but very
imperfect fruit Nothing, however, as vel
can be positively stated
Reports from Millen, Tennille, and point
along the line of the Central railroad be
tween Savannah and Macon show that tn
prospects for a fair crop of peaches are ia