

Errata. — November number, page 338, 7th paragraph, for collection, read collec- 

 tions. Page 342, Orchards in Grass, etc., should be credited to S. B. Higgins, 

 Baxter, Jasper Co., Iowa. 



October number, page 305, for Duebcrry, read Dew. 



We wish it understood that, being so far from the printing office, we do not have 

 the advantage of reading our own proof. 



G-ro"wing Almonds. 



A SAN JOSE, Cal., correspondent of the Pace^c Press gives the following hints on 

 the culture of the Almond : 



Select from the nursery trees that have been grafted or budded on peach stocks, 

 and those having been well irrigated and cultivated, having attained the fullest and 

 most perfect development whilst in the nursery ; 051 this depends success. 



I am acquainted with a gentleman who purchased last winter 3,000 trees; 1,500 

 of which had the full benefit of the conditions I have named, the balance being 

 worked upon almond stocks, and grown in the nursery without irrigation. This gen- 

 tleman has what is known as "chapparal land " that is, land from which that shrub has 

 been cleared ; his land had been well plowed and worked, and the soil was the same 

 in nature throughout. 



When I visited the plaee about a month ago, I found the 1,500 which had been 

 worked upon peach, and well irrigated while in the nursery, healthy and vigorous, 

 having put out new shoots from eight inches to a foot in length, and with every indi- 

 cation of completely gratifying the hopes of their owner, while the 1,500 woi'ked on 

 almond, and grown without irrigation, were the most complete failure I ever saw, 

 not a single tree being alive. 



The nature of the Almond demands that it shall be planted upon high, dry, gravelly 

 or sandy situations ; putting forth its bloom as it does in February, it cannot be 

 grown successfully on moist lands where humid atmosphere tends to increase the 

 severity of Spring frosts. 



It is obvious, therefore, taking the above facts into consideration, that a tree should 

 have its saps and elements developed without sthit wliile in the nursery, in order to 

 give it strength to rally under the change in transplanting to which it is subjected. 



