The failure of the late Peach crop this year is all but universal, and is the result of the fine warm weather we had in February, which set the sap in motion early. This was succeeded by the severe cold winds of March, which checked the sap; and when the warm weather of April came, the buds fell off instead of setting. Your gardener has done all he could do to save them, and is no way to blame.

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You have overcropped your young Vines, hence the smallness and bad colour of the fruit. Buckland's Sweetwater is a free-bearing, easily-grown Grape, but scarcely fourth-rate in flavour. Were your case our own, we would substitute the Duke of Buccleuch for it.