Show odtis fruit note notes from the moat most recent weekly reports issued by the climate and crop service of the lN leather eather bureau we gather tue following information con berning fruit prospects georgia peaches apples pears and plums continue to rot and these fruits fruit are below normal in quality and quantity the dry weather has given a decided set back to the water melon crop Illin illinois the T apple crop ranges from very poor to very fine in some the prospects have been 1111 r proved by tha th rain though in some places the peach prospects are fair they are generally very poor iowa lowa the tho average condition of apples Is 65 plums 50 grapes 65 maryland and Delav delaware iare A farther fir ther thought slight decrease decre aee in fruit pros pacts Is noted throughout the section due to continued falling and to a loss of rood fruit by wind gusts gusto some spraying Is being done in the orchards of washington Nas hington county early apples are now ripe with poor to medium yields affording an ample supply for home use in mo most at localities but not many for market peaches continue to drop freely ex capt in thu the southeast they are holding fairly well and still promise moderately good yields some apri cots are now ripe in prince georges george I 1 county japan plums are ripening 1 in cecil and are falling on off freely I 1 in u tanne anne arundel michigan cherries are yielding only moderately and in some cases poorly plums indicate a light crop but apples pears and peaches com dinue promising MIsao url the apple crop i continues to decline and little more than one third of a crop for the state Is now indicated pennsylvania apples and poaches peaches are dropping in nearly all sections section cherries are good in some districts district and in others a failure and the con dillons are not such as to warrant expectations of the usual berry crop higher temperatures are needed to promote growth and maturity wisconsin strawberries cherries currants and other email small fruits have ripened very rapidly and improved somewhat la in quality during the past few days the prospects for appes lla Js generally discouraging although in some localities the crop will be fair cranberries are in good condition L ater rot of the apples A word now should bo to said upon the common name very commonly the infected flesh of an apple Is dis die bitter to the taste but there is much variation in this sometimes the bitterness Is vry v ry slight in other cases almost eithal bual to quinine out but such bitterness sometimes results also from other causes other fungi produce pro luce a similar taste in the affected fruit though those usually attacking stored apples have no such effect the musty flavor due to common molds is altogether different it if the word bit ter Is not always characteristic the word rot Is to not especially appropriate the affected tissues are never slushy soft there is indeed no extra ac or incorporation of water the spot ts is hard and firm and at length becomes sunken somewhat bat from the shrinkage of the drying trying pulp ot of the fruit there is no odor the apple seems to be converted convert td into a aemi 1 woody sab substance stance which is re sla latent tent of decay it is in this condl condi tion that the shriveled fruit remains for a year or more attached by its dead stem to the twig or endures for a similar length of time upon the ground if however the affected fruit is neither cc constantly antly bitter nor really rotten still the name is as appropriate prop as any that can pro baby be found and Is certainly better thai thas that of I 1 ripe rot which has been proposed prof T J burrill Burrl ll bitter rot of the apple is ts directly due to a getable v para parasite sito which starting from a spore spare lodged upon the surface of the apple or in f puncture made by other bows gi aws in the pulpy tissues of the fruit and in a abw days bears another crop of spores by means of which the process may be indefinitely re belted pelted do cited big berries we heard board recently ct it shipment of strawberries where each berry was the size of an egg this starts a chain of thoughts reaching from the little wild strawberry of our fields to th tb mammoth affair of a century hence we do not know the lit its 0 the pos dog as to the development of etze size during a few centuries we have seen both plants and animals enormously increased in size through breeding and selecting compare the ue little wili crab apple with the man main moth wolf river and what is ie le yond the wok wolf river applet apple perhaps an apple twice its eize size the differ ence between the full grown wild strawberry aberry and the one the size of an egg Is oot not 0 so o great as the difference differ erce between the ild crab apple and ara the wolf river we may expect rom decade to decade to see an increase la in the size of strawberries thi this fruit is very susceptible to development on account of the universality of its cultivation and I 1 i 1 character as a an P anual tens of thousands of grower growers are today to day developing new varieties of this fruit and it will be very queer if it some of them do not find lind a prize now and then the object of alt all the Is to crow grow big berries bottles and lots of them |