470 SECOND ANNUAL CITRUS EXHIBITION 



Mr. R. H. Henderson submits the following as the result obtained 

 by him from two acres of vineyard. The vines were rooted one year 

 old slips, planted in the spring of 1877. The crop of raisins made in 

 1878 was 140 boxes. The crop of raisins made in 1879 was 475 boxeS;. 

 of which there were- 



400 boxes of London Layers, sold at $2 $800 00 



75 boxes of Layers, sold at $1 50 112 50 



$912 50' 



EXPENSES. 



Boxes and paper ■_ .$63 25 



Prunins; and watering 18 00 



Cultivalioo 15 00 



Picking .35 00 



Packing io boxes 40 00 



$171 25- 



Net profit $741 25- 



Or, $370 62 per acre. 



An English friend of mine recently handed me the following price- 

 list, as furnished to him by his brother, from England. I believe 

 they represent the quotations on the Bristol market. The prices ar& 

 reduced to Federal money: 



Valencias — Per cwt. (112 pounds), in 28-pound boxes : 



First quality ._.. . $11 50> 



Second quality 10 25 



Third quality 9 25 



Ordinary 8 50 



Sultanas — Different' sized packages : 



First quality 12 50> 



Second quality 10 7.5 



Ordinary 8 75 



Muscatels — DifTei-ent sized packages: 



First quality 27 50 



Second quality 26 25 



Ordinary IS 75 



Here is apparently a large margin over the prices that Riverside- 

 raisins sold for this year, and I am sure that its productions were 

 equal to the best quoted, if they did not excel them. 



The orange as a local question is of more importance to us than the 

 grape; the former, while peculiarly our own in southern California,, 

 the latter belongs to the State. While there are millions of acres well 

 adapted to grape culture, for at least wine and brandy making, from 

 Shasta to San Diego, the area upon which the citrus cultivation can 

 be safely followed is very limited indeed. I know the gentlemen in 

 the northern counties will think my judgment in error, but the future 

 will, I think, sustain this opinion, and they may thank me then for 

 so candid an expression of it. In the southern Atlantic States the 

 isothermal lines have undergone many important changes. Orange 

 orchards in Louisiana, once flourishing and productive, have ceased 

 to bear entirely, on account of the increased cold. The trees still live,, 

 and that is all. In Florida, in and around Jacksonville, where once 

 flourished the largest and best groves of oranges, no young trees can 

 be grown, nor is it safe, or a certainty, north of a line seventy miles 

 south of Jacksonville. Nor is it at all probable that great changes- 

 should be confined to the Atlantic States. Are not the same changes 

 likely to follow here that have occurred in Louisiana and Florida? 

 The late cold weather and the destruction of trees in the northern 

 counties answxrs this question in the affirmative. Even in the Coun- 



