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of Orange, a county lately formed from portions of Los Angeles county, is 

 included in the above figures. 



In San Diego county there is an acreage of 6,000 bearing and 7,500 

 non-bearing vines. Of the latter, 6,000 were just coming into bearing in 

 1889, and did not add much to the product. While this shows a fair 

 increase in the growth of the industry during the last four years, the 

 increase is accounted for by the fact that the new disease that was so 

 injurious in Los Angeles, did not affect San Diego county. It is in the 

 El Cajon valley of San Diego county that the most progress has been 

 made in viticulture. There are 27,000 acres adapted to fruitgrowing, and 

 3,000 acres of bearing raisin vineyards in El Cajon. The raisins from this 

 valley are among the finest produced in California. The product of the 

 El Cajon valley in 1889 was 75,000 boxes; in the balance of San Diego 

 county the pack was 75,000 boxes; fh all, 150,000 boxes. Another success- 

 ful branch of viticulture in this district is the shipment of table grapes to 

 the eastern markets. Many of the elevated localities are so free from frost 

 that grapes can be left on the vines until January. 



As it has been noted in this bulletin that California has the largest 

 vineyard in the world, it may be well to state that she has also the smallest. 

 It is a vineyard consisting of a single vine, in Santa Barbara county. It 

 was planted by a Mexican woman about sixty-eight years ago, and has a 

 diameter one foot from the ground of 12 inches, its branches covering an 

 area of 12,000 feet, and produces annually from 10,000 to 12,000 pounds of 

 grapes of the Mission variety (many bunches weighing six and seven 

 pounds), the crop being generally made into wine. The old lady who 

 planted this one-vine vineyard died in 1865 at the age of 107. 



Viticulture, already a great industry in the Pacific division, promises to 

 become still greater in the near future. 



The census investigation of viticulture shows that outside of the regular 

 districts already mentioned there are probably 45,000 acres of bearing and 

 15,000 acres of non-bearing vines, an aggregate of small vineyards from 

 one fourth of an acre upward, grown to supply a home demand for this 

 healthy and delicious fruit and a like demand for wine. This class of vine- 

 yards is to be found in every state and territory of the Union, producing, 

 in 1889, 67,500 tons of table grapes and 22,500 tons of wine grapes, or 

 1,875,000 gallons of wine. These small plantings are more or less experi- 

 mental, and, when proven a success in a small way, will doubtless lead to 

 larger enterprises. In localities where the industry has thrived in past 

 years, and has been abandoned on account of mildew and black rot, now 

 that the United States government, through its Department of Agriculture, 

 is so successfully experimenting in regard to the causes of the diseases and 

 the remedies to be applied to save the vines, and the favorable results are 

 being known, a new interest is being manifested, and, no doubt, when 

 another decade has passed, the grape industry will be again successful 

 and greatly increased in many of the now comparatively small grape- 

 growing sections. 



