PROLIFIC CHARACTER OF FRUIT TREES IN CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST. 



BufiFam, excellent 



Duchess d' Angouleme, good, but lacks flavor. 



White Doyenne, liigli flavored, acid, and astringent. 



Buerre Diel, good but not high flavored. 



Swan's Orange, a magnificent pear but a little too acid. 



Bezfe d' Montigny, musky, perfumed and good. 



Buerre Oswego, extremely acid and astringent. 



Buerre d' Anjou, a few specimens have ripened, and are of fair quality. 



All the above have shown more or less characteristics of good fruits, and under 

 favorable circumstances are all worthy of attentiau, but the favored few which have 

 withstood the severities of the season should have a conspicuous rank among their 

 fellows. First in the rank is Bartlett and Bufiam; next Buerre Goubalt, Long 

 Green, and Henry IV., also Duchess d' Angouleme, White Doyenne, Beze d' 

 Montigny, Swan's Oswego, and Buerre Diel. 



As time rolls on I hope to be able to furnish the cultivators of fruits with reliable 

 information through the Horticulturist, and the good citizens of the Quaker city 

 with delicious fruits. 



[Let your remittance be as soon as possible. Our citizens, as a general rule, 

 scarcely know what good pears are ; a hungry population, increasing at a monstrous 

 rate, will make you a fine market. You do not enumerate the Lawrence; first, we 

 call it, in excellence, and easy of transport. Cuttings are at your service. — Ed.] 



PROLIFIC CHARACTER OF FRUIT TREES IN 

 CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST. 



We hear it often remarked that the fruit trees of this State are remarkable for 

 tendencies to an over-abundant crop, and that it holds good in every description of 

 fruit. We know this to be so, not only in one season, or in one locality, but in all 

 California and Oregon there is a universal disposition in fruit trees to overbear, and 

 unless care is taken by growers to relieve the tree of a part of the fruit, the tree 

 will be seriously injured. 



By a little observation any one can see, as the fruit is maturing, a portion of it 

 will grow more rapidly and of fairer form, leaving others of an inferior size and 

 form. Remove all the latter from the tree at once, and thus increase still lai-ger 

 the best fruit. This rule should apply to all fruits; to grapes, more particularly of 

 the finest varieties; not only remove inferior bunches from the vines, but small 

 es from the bunch. 



