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planting look "very old and mossy, and are not very thrifty, but 

 still bear some fruit every year." They were planted too closely, 

 and have undergone periods of neglect, no doubt. The trees are 

 apple for the most part, but there were also cherries, and some of 

 both fruits survive. The trees are all believed to have been grown 

 from seed, and if this be true some fortunate results were obtained, 

 for there is still grown in Green Valley, Sonoma county, a medium- 

 sized, bell-shaped apple, lightly striped with red, which is called 

 the Fort Ross or Russian apple, and was probably propagated by 

 grafts from the Fort Ross orchard. Seeds were also secured from 

 this source for propagation of apple trees in early days in that sec- 

 tion of the State. 



