Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-05-14
weather still continued cold and unfavor
able last night,

able last night.
Charles Wright, an extensive grower of
trees and plants at Scaford, sends EVERY
EVENING five peach tree branches lust
taken from his orchard. A shoot from a
Cooper's Late tree four years old is well
filled with small fruit and shows little If
any effects of the cold. An Elberta twig
from a four years old tree shows the
young fruit in u likewise healthy condi-
ton. As does also branch from a Wat
kins Early Q3 years old) tree. The small
peaches on u Shipley's Late four years old
twig also appear entirely unframed.
LEwEs, May s-Fruit growers Of this
vicinity have fears of much damage to
their crops from the very cold weather Of
this week. As was known peaches were
very nearly all killed, the only hope for
any was few ON old trees and in shell
tered localities The prospect is there
| probably will he none to ship and very
few for home consumption. Other fruits
Of which prior TO the cold snap an abund
ance was expected, are probably badly in
jured. Our truckers say that in many
localities round potatoes which were above
the ground are nipped by the frost and
other vegetables which were forward are
hurt. In town small garden patches being
sheltered, very little injury is done.
Strawberries are probably Killed.
FEELING OF SAFETY IN QUEEN ANNE.
CENTREvILLE, May THE peach and
fruit crop of this county is not ruined, and
the general impression is that the crop is
still safe, and our people are still sanguine.
ALL THE DAMAGE IN SUSSEX COUNTY.
GEORGETOWN, May I'm this county
SUSSEX the frosts of the past three or
four days have entirely destroyed the mid
die variety of peaches, but the early and
late varieties are uniniured. This would
make il they stand June crop, one-third
of a crop in Sussex from Middletown to
Bridgeyille, while on all the branch lines
OF the railroad west Of the main line the
fruit is all right yet From present indi-
cations the crop of peaches, taken alto
gether will be large one, although no en-
tirely reliable estimate can be made until
late in June.
In Kent county and on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland practically no damage
has been sustained by the fruit or peach
crop, which may be considered safe in all
As to the strawberry crop, the hest
growers in the neighborhoOd of Delmar,
Bridgeyille, Laurel, Seaford, Ridgely and
Selbyville, estimate that the crop has been
damaged sufficiently to cut it down from
p to 40 per cent. A warm spell, with
showers, will, however, show a different
state of affairs, but a hot, dry spell will
undoubtedly have the effect of cutting the
Sussex strawberry crop very short.
LIGHT CROP IN SOMERSET.
The peach crop will be light in Somerset.
as most Of the fruit was killed last month
by the cold weather. The impression is
that the fruit on the old trees is all right,
but on the younger trees it is dead. The
yellow fruit is all right. The orchards in
Somerset have very much increased in the
past few years. There has been quite an
immigration of peach-growers from the
State of Delaware, and number of young
trees have been set out. This is the third
successive year that the peach crop has
been failure, and for that reason our
growers are very much disheartened. The
crop last season was a complete failure, as
there were not enough peaches to supply
the home market.
Tomatoes are killed, and white potatoes
are hurt to some extent. Peas were too far
advanced to be hurt.
HOPE FOR JERSEY PEACHES.
TRENTON, May 7.-Franklin Dye, secre-
tary of the state board of agriculture, saws
he has received conflicting reports con-
cerning the effect of the cold spell on the
crops i'll New Jersey. There was frost
throughout the state and ice half an inch
thick is reported from points near Tren-
ton. Strawberries and low-lying fruit have
suffered considerably, but peaches, apples,
&c, were favored by the dry air and brisk
wind
BLUE MOUNTAIN PEACHES ALL RIGHT.
CHAMBERsBURG. May IA careful can
vass made to-day among the peach growers
on the Blue Mountain peach belt. both in
Maryland and Pennsylvania shows that
the orchards were uninjured by the cold
and snow on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The growers all say that the prospects for
a big crop could not be better, and they
discredit the reports of injury to the or
chards in Delaware and Eastern Maryland,