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Excerpt from Transactions of the Maine State Pomological Society: For the Year 1902 There are many things in fruit growing that none of us can explain. One of these was the phenomenal crop of 1901 - phenomenal in this respect: that there were few orchards where all the trees bore fruit, while parts of orchards and localities bore very little fruit. Some one describing the crop said it was patchy. This year some of the same conditions prevail, and while there are no localities in Maine with a full crop, there are not many where there are above 50 percent. This year like last the spring was cold, wet and late. The bloom was not a very full one, and the bee men say it was too cold for the bees to work among the flowers, while others think the rain may have prevented polination. Fortunately, perhaps, the blossoms and foliage came late, so that nowhere in the State does it appear that the apple trees were injured by the freeze on the nights of May 9 and 10. The cool Weather of the season appears to have been favorable for the growth of the trees and size of fruit: at the same time it made the maturity of the fruit quite a couple of weeks later than in ordinary years. As illustrative of this the Ben Davis was small and unwilling to be plucked from the tree, and it would seem in consequence that this variety would compare more unfavorably than usual with those grown further south. There have not been so many insects to prey upon the foliage as usual, and the frequent rains in some cases interfered with spraying. It is further noticeable that the orchards that have been best cultivated in years past have been the most fruitful this year; a fact that confirms what our society has taught for the thirty years of its existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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