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nir du Congress, are on the lists, but their resemblance to the Bartlett is 

 their chief recommendation, and why buy an imitation when you can get 

 the standard genuine. Of autumn pears, plant Beurre Clairgeau. It is 

 high flavored, valuable for market, bears transportation, ripens in October 

 and November. Beurre Hardy, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Kennedy, and 

 Seckel are all good. 



Of winter pears, plant Easter Beurre; keeps December to March; Winter 

 Nelis, December. The Winter Nelis is a good shipper and valuable for 

 market. Unless you are planting several varieties -to meet shipping and 

 market wants for green fruit, I would stick to Bartletts, because, if you 

 can't ship, the canners will take them. , 



If you want a winter pear to follow up your Bartlett, plant the Winter 

 Nelis. Mr. Gray, General BidwelPs Superintendent, stated before the 

 State Horticultural Society that there is no fruit that will bring in as 

 much money to the northern part of the State as the Winter Nelis. He 

 says they sell all they have at 2 to 4 cents a pound, and could sell more. 

 He further says: "We have never had a failure, and it seems to be a very 

 profitable tree, yielding from $400 to $700 or $803 an acre." At the same 

 discussion, Mr. Stone, of Compton, said his Bartletts yield $5 and $6 to the 

 tree. 



Strong, rich, sandy loams are good, and these pears also do well on 

 heavier soils; indeed, in some places the heavier soils are the best. 



The cherry does well in our valley, notwithstanding the impression pre- 

 vails that they must grow within the influence of the sea. General Bidwell 

 has a tree that has yielded one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds 

 at a crop, for which he got 5 cents a pound. Forty-eight such trees, and 

 such yield to the tree, would show $3,850 per acre. Such yield is phenom- 

 enal and need not be counted in an estimate of profits, but there is no doubt 

 about cherries being profitable and well adapted to our climate and soils. 

 Select good, well drained, sandy loam, in as early exposure as you can. 

 Cherries ripen here, in Tehama County, earlier than further south, and 

 about as early as at Vacaville. Black Tartarian, Black Eagle, Black 

 Republican, Napoleon, and Centennial are the five best shippers. The 

 Napoleon, White Tartarian, and Centennial are the canning cherries. 



THE FIG. 



The importance of the fig in commerce is not generally understood, and 

 few persons yet know what a mine of wealth for us there is in fig culture. 

 Nowhere in the State are the conditions for successful fig culture more 

 pronounced than in Central and Northern California. I have not space 

 to go into this subject, but there can be no doubt about the importance of 

 the fig to our planters. The tree is not subject to any insect pests, and the 

 yield is enormous and the manipulation of the fruit for market readily 

 understood. Now that we can buy them at reasonable prices, I would 

 plant only the White Adriatic, although the Black California fig shows 

 good profits where properly handled. 



NUT-BEARING TREES. 



^ The almond is a very profitable tree and we know it will do well here. 

 You want a strong bearer of thin-shelled nuts, which we have in the I. X. 

 L. and Nonpariel. Don't waste time on low priced thick shells. These 

 varieties I have named need no bleaching in our climate, but hull easily, 

 are bright and uniform in size. The English walnut takes naturally to 



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