CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



Muscatel Gordo Blanco. "Muscatel Gordo Blanco has a closer bunch 

 and rounder berry than the Muscat. The skin is softer and the pulp is not 

 quite so hard. The berry inclines to be a little darker in color and not 

 nearly so green when it is ripe, and I think not quite as long as the Mus- 

 cat of Alexandria. If the Muscat would set as well as the Muscatel, the 

 difficulty would be obviated. One very important difference is that when 

 you come to dry them, the Muscat of Alexandria loses the bloom very 

 rapidly. The bloom comes off when you come to dry and pack them. But 

 the Muscatel does not lose its bloom. The Muscat of Alexandria has to 

 be dried a little more than the Muscatel to bring it into a keeping condition 

 under the same condition of ripeness." R. B. Blowers. 



Huasco Muscat. A variety brought from Chile, but after wide trial in 

 California, seems not superior to the other White Muscat varieties previ- 

 ously mentioned. Its dense cluster is not well adapted to raisin making. 

 It is said, however, to be less subject to coulure. 



Fcher Szagos. "Vine a strong grower 'and heavy bearer; branches erect 

 but slender; leaves glossy, entire; bunches medium to small, pointed, and 

 solid; berries greenish amber, medium oval, pointed, with thin skin and 

 few small seeds; flesh not firm, but dries well and makes a good raisin." 

 Dr. Eisen. 



Large Bloom; syn. Uva Larga. A variety of Muscat said to be named 

 because of the length of its berries, but held by some growers to be indis- 

 tinguishable from Muscatel Gordo Blanco. An excellent raisin grape, but 

 now chiefly grown as a table fruit in the Santa Cruz Mountains. 



White Malagas "Vine a strong grower; wood reddish brown, short- 

 jointed; leaf medium, leathery smooth, deeply lobed, light shining green 

 above; bunch very large, loose shouldered, long; stem long and flexible; 

 berry very large, oval, yellowish green, covered with white bloom; thick 

 skin, fleshy." Husmann. Grown in Southern California in situations where 

 the Muscat does not do well; also elsewhere as a table grape, and to some 

 extent in San Joaquin Valley for naisins. 



Sultana; syn. Seedless Sultana! "Vine vigorous, upright; leaves large, 

 five-lobed, with rather large sinuses, light colored, and coarsely toothed; 

 bunches large, long-cylindrical, with heavy shoulders or wings, well filled 

 when not cultured, but not compacted; berries small, round, firm and crisp, 

 golden yellow, and without seeds." Bioletti. In California the variety is 

 apt to have some seeds. It has more acid, and therefore greater piquancy 

 of flavor, than Thompson's Seedless, but the latter has recently far out- 

 stripped it in popularity among growers. 



Thompson's Seedless; syn. Sultanina^ Named by Sutter County Horti- 

 cultural Society, after W. Thompson, Sr., of Yuba City, who procured the 

 cutting in 1878, from Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, New York. It was 

 by^them described as "a grape from Constantinople, named Lady Decover- 

 ly." When it fruited in Sutter county, it was seen to be superior to the 

 Sultana, and has been propagated largely. It was first widely distributed 

 by J. P. Onstott, of Yuba City, and others, and is now to be found in all 

 parts of the State. The variety is described by Dr. Eisen as follows: 

 "Oval; greenish-yellow; as large as a Sultana; seedless, with a thin skin; 



food, but not strong flavor, and without that acid which characterizes the 

 ultana^ grape and raisins; bunches large or very large; vine an enormous 

 bearer. Mr. Bioletti considers the variety identical with the Sultanina of 

 Asia Minor, and gives this description: "Vine very vigorous and with 

 large trunk and very long canes; leaves glabrous on both sides, dark yel- 

 low-green above and light below, generally three-lobed, with shallow 

 sinuses, teeth short and obtuse, bunch large conico-cylindrical, well filled, 

 on herbaceous peduncles; berries under medium; ellipsoidal, crisp, of neu- 

 tral flavor, with moderately thick skin of a fine golden-yellow color." 

 Black Wanukka. A black seedless grape somewhat larger than the Sul- 

 ihompson). It is very promising, both as a shipping and as a 

 raisin grape; an excellent table grape, carrying well and not shattering as 

 Thompson; about two weeks earlier, an advantage both in ship- 

 ping and drying. 





