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Chronicle has from time to time given much space to the raisin industry, 

 and its horticultural editor, George F. Weeks, has most ably contribu- 

 ted to the dissemination of knowledge about our California raisins. A 

 special raisin edition of this paper appeared February 2 , 1 890. Another 

 San Francisco paper, the Journal of 'Commerce, contains much information 

 as regards raisin statistics and the progress of the raisin industry general- 

 ly, and its files may be consulted with much interest and profit. Among 

 Eastern journals I wish onfy to call attention to the Fruit Trade 

 Journal published at New York up to date (June, 1890); it contains 

 weekly statistics of raisin sales, etc., all of great interest to the grower 

 and packer. An important contribution to the history of the raisin 

 industry is the work by Professor E. J. Wickson, "California Fruits, 

 and How to Grow Them." It contains several chapters on grapes, 

 most conscientiously written and very reliable. This book will always 

 remain as a standard work of reference upon the subject. Professor 

 E. W. Hilgard has during a number of years published essays upon 

 topics related to our industry, all most valuable to the practical grower. 

 They are enumerated below. 



I may also mention the Rural Californian, published in I/os 

 Angeles. It devotes from time to time some space to the raisin industry 

 of the southern part of the State. In the Reports of the State Board 

 of Horticultural Commissioners will be found several papers upon the 

 raisin industry, all mentioned below. Similarly the Reports of the 

 State Board of Viticultural Commissioners contain several important 

 and very interesting essays on raisins, etc., which are duly mentioned 

 below. In these reports we find articles by T. C. White and W. B. 

 West and others, as well as interesting discussions by growers. The 

 California, a journal of rural industry, which commenced publication 

 this year (1890), and is issued weekly and monthly, makes the raisin 

 / industry a specialty. It has already contained many articles contribu- 

 ted by our most successful growers, such as A. D. Barling, T. C. White, 

 A. B. Butler, Frank Ball, Wm. Forsyth, etc., and also by this author. 

 In the way of illustrations, California is fortunate to possess a most 

 exquisite work on grapes. We refer to the very fine colored prints of 

 California grape varieties published by Edward Bosqui. Among the 

 number are our Muscat of Alexandria and Seedless Sultana. Each one 

 of these plates is a work of art, than which there is nothing superior 

 produced anywhere. 



Below follows an enumeration of books, which to a greater or less 

 degree refer to the raisin industry. For access to many of them I 

 am indebted to the kindness of the proprietor of the Sutro Library, Mr. 

 Adolph Sutro, of San Francisco, and to his librarian, Mr. George Moss. 



ANSTED, D.T.: Ionian Islands in 1863. I/jn- BARLING, A. D.: Culture and Curing. In Vol. 



don, 1863. I, No. 4, of monthly California, a Journal of \J 



ARQUIMBATJ, JOHN D., United States Consul at Rural Industry, El Verano, Cal.; also in same 



Denia: Raisins in Denia. United States Con- weekly No. 14, April 12, 1890. 



sular Reports, No. 41^, pages68i and 682. 1884. BEAUJOUR, P.: Tableau du Commerce de la 



Mr. Arquimbau is the largest packer in Va- Grece. Paris, 1880. 



lencia. BLOWERS, R. B.: Report on Raisin-making in . 

 AUDIBERT, JOSEPH: Les Raisin Sec. Paris, California. First Annual Report of the State " 



1884. This work treats almost exclusively of Board of Viticultural Commissioners. San 



dried grapes imported from Turkey and Francisco, 1881. Pages 13 to 15. 



Greece to France lor wine-making. BORDE, ANDREW: Breviary of Health. 1542. 



BALL, FRANK H. : My Work in the Raisin BULLETIN, THE SAN FRANCISCO: Published by 



Vineyard. MS. to be published in California Messrs. Pickering and Fitch, San Francisco. 



for July, 1890. The Bulletin was the first of the large San 



