California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



apples ripen late, as in Santa Clara county, 

 and keep well, the Newton Pippin is the very 

 best one to jjlant. Some orchardist say the 

 ottly one from one acre to a hundred acres 

 would be the Newton Pippin. 



Pears — Early and late, as they come in 

 succession — Two Dearborn Seedlings; 1 Mad- 

 aline; 2 Buerre Giii'ord; 5 Bartlett; 1 Sickle; 



1 Flemish Beauty; 3 Buerre Hardy; 2 White 

 Doyenner 2 Glout Morceau; 3 Winter Nellis; 



2 Easter Buerre. There is no better flavored 

 pear for drying or canning than the Bartlett; 

 but owing to the softness of the core when 

 ripe enough to dry nicely, it will not hold to 

 the fork of a paring machine, and is not so 

 profitable for the drying factorj' as the Flem- 

 ish Beauty, which is round, smooth, easily 

 worked on a machine, and is one of the very 

 nicest drying pears. Swan's Orange and 

 Glout Morceau, are also fine di'yiug pears, 

 ■where machinery is used. The best shipping 

 pears for Eastern markets, are the Winter 

 Nellis and Easter Buerre. At one time the 

 Bartlett and Buerre Hard}- were thought the 

 best, but they do not keep well, and arrive 

 there when Eastern pears are plentiful, while 

 the winter varieties get there in a sound con- 

 dition and at a time when Eastern pears ai-e 

 not brought into competition to lower prices. 



Quinces — Two Orange variety. Quinces 

 are excelleht baking fruit, and for canning, 

 either alone or with jiears. 



Plums ■ One Cherry Plum ; 2 Early Golden 

 Drop; 2 Eoyal Hative; 2 Jeflerson; 3 Colum- 

 bia; 6 Green Gage; 5 Ickworth's Imperatrice; 

 2 Coe's Late Ked. The latter plum will last 

 till Christmas, and is desirable chieflj- for its 

 late keeping qualities. Best for canning- 

 Green Gage. Best i^lums for drying, are Jef- 

 ferson, Washington, Ickworth's Imperatrice, 

 Columbia, Kein Claud de Bavey, CJeueral 

 Hand. Soft, mushy plums are not desirable 

 for drying, but the phim that has a rich flavor, 

 solid pulp and is easily pitted, is a drying 

 plum. The Quackenboss is called the best 

 shipping plum, owing to its beauty and keep- 

 ing qualities. 



Peaches — One Hale's Early; 1 Early 

 York Serrate; 1 Crawford's Early; 3 Grosse 

 Mignonue; — one of the finest peaches in culti- 

 vation; valuable for canning; 1 Late Admir- 

 able; Crawford's Late; 2 Old Mixou, cling; 

 2 Lemon, cling. 



Nectarine — One Hardwick; 1 New White. 



Prunes — Two Grosse Prune de Agen; 3 

 Petti Prune de Agen; 2 Felleuburg. The 

 Fellenburg, or German Prune is the best 

 di'yiug prune, and is coming into high favor 

 on that account very fast. It pits naiuraUy; 

 is high flavored, with firm flesh. The Petti 

 Prune de Agen stands second, but is rich and 

 fine, though small. The Grosse Prune de 

 Agen is best for shipping, owing to its beauty, 

 size and solidity. It adheres to the pit too 

 tenaciously to be a favorite for drying. 



Apeicots — Two Early Golden; 2 Moore- 

 park. Nice for cooking, canning and drying, 

 as well as for eating. 



Cherries — Two each of Governor Wood, 



.' Black Eagle, Black Tartarean, Black Arabian, 



I Coe's Transparent, Kentish or Pie, Cleveland 



n Biggareau, Napoleon Biggareau. The Black 



Tartarean. is the most profitable market cher- 



ry, owing to the regular and good bearing 

 quality of the trees, and to the solidity and 

 carrying quality of the fruit, which will not 

 discolor when bruised, and is large, handsome 

 and of fine flavor. There is no better can- 

 ning fruit than the cherry, also good dried. 



Mulberries — Black and Downiug's ever- 

 bearing — trees ornamental us well as good for 

 fruit. 



Figs— Take a variety. The Black Bruns- 

 wick, White Smyrna and Brown Turkey are 

 as good as any. 



Oranges — Don't fail to plant out several for 

 fruit and ornament. The Navil, St. Michael 

 and Sicily are leading grafted sorts. 



Lemon and Citron — One of each sort, at 

 least. 



Walnuts — Half-dozen each of English, 

 American Black, and Pecan. 



Chestnuts — Half-a-dozen trees, including 

 American, Italian and Spanish. 



Almonds— Six Lauguedoc, 3 King's Paper 

 Shell. 



Mespulas — Two trees. 



Olive — Two trees. 



This selection will make a respectable or- 

 chard for any farmer for family use. Persons 

 living in the hot interior valleys should con- 

 sult orchardists there as to what particular 

 early varieties are most profitable for early 

 market. For a family orchard the varieties 

 we 'have mentioned are very choice and suc- 

 ceed each other admirably. 



Grapes— Two vines each of White Sweet- 

 water, Isabella and Catawba for a trellis, 10 

 Rose Peru, 10 Flame Tokay, 50 White Muscat 

 of Alexandria, 10 Black Hamburg, 10 Black 

 Malvoise, 10 Black Morocco. The White 

 Muscat of Alexandria is the very best raisin 

 grape. Any family cau make their own rai- 

 sins nicely and send some to market. The 

 best shipping grapes are White Muscat of 

 Alexandria, Flame Tokay and Rose Peru, so 

 far as tried for profit. For canning, high- 

 flavored graiies are best. 



Berries— Blackberries— 50 Lawton, 50 Kit- 

 tertinny; 25 Easpberries; 25 Houghton Seed- 

 ling Gooseberries; 25 Cherry Currants; of 

 Strawberries the Lougsworth Prolific and Jo- 

 cunda prove the best. 



Distance of Planting Small Fruits. — 

 For conveuic-nce of cultivating and economy 

 of gi-ound we advise setting the berries at one 

 end of the grape patch in rows the same dis- 

 tance apart. 



Plant. Grapes 8x8 feet; the Blackberries 

 about 8x3 feet; the Gooseberries and Currants 

 8x3 feet; the Easpberries 8x3 feet; Ehubarb 

 8x-l feet. The rows can be all 8 feet apart 

 one way for convenience in cultivating, which 

 is handier than odd distances. 



Plant Strawberries, Asparagus, etc., in beds 

 or in rows two feet apart, as is most conven- 

 ient. 



The Grangers are circulating a petition 

 praying the next Legislature to pass a bill, 

 " fixing the rate of attorneys' and lawyers' 

 fees where no special contract is made." — 

 Sacramento Bee. 



Not less than §300,000 worth of oysters 

 will be sold from the Shoalwater Bay beds 

 this season, the gathering and moving of them 

 forming one of the chief industries of Wash- 

 ington Territon'. 



TARLETON OECHAED CULTIVATOR 



The best implement for working up weeds 

 in an orchard is probably the one invented 

 and used by Mr. G. W. Tarleton in his fine 

 orchard near San Jose. The wood-work con- 

 sists of three beams placed parallel about Ifi 

 to 18 inches apart and strongly connected by 

 braces, and the handles similar to common 

 cultivator handles. To each of these beams 

 is attached, by standards 14 inches long, a 

 double- winged hoe, made of 2^ inch sjjring 

 steel, ^^^th a point similar to a plow-i>oiut, 

 the point pitching down a little to hold stead- 

 ily to the ground when working. The wings 

 are 18 inches long, level on the edge, not 

 flit but slanting downward some 25 degi-ees, 

 to give the weeds, when cut off, an upward 

 send. The ends of the wings are 21 inches 

 apart, which spread gives about the same an- 

 gle to each share as a common plowshare has. 

 In front of each hoe is attached to each beam 

 by the common half-circles, a common eight, 

 inch plow wheel, to grade and regulate the 

 depth of each hoe, so the cultivator re.sts on 

 the three wheels. 



Mr. Tarleton grades his to cut two inches 

 deep only. The implement is not calculated 

 to cut over three inches deep, and will not 

 stand deep running, although made of best 

 spring steel to give elasticity and strength to 

 the shares or flanges. We saw this cultivat- 

 or in use, and it works exactly as desired. 

 Mr. Tarleton does not cultivate his orchard 

 ever more than two to two and one-half inches 

 deep, but cuts every weed out clean. Two 

 horses will run this cultivator with ease in 

 wet soil, and in dry, light soil one horse is 

 enough. After going over the ground with 

 this and cross culti\ating, a harrow is used to 

 finish the work. In dry weather and when 

 the soil is not wet by irrigation the weeds are 

 all destroyed by the cultivator, so that the 

 harrowing afterwards is disjiiensed with. 



We have taken some pains to describe this 

 implement, as it has been in use for some 

 years and has been adoi^ted by several of our 

 best orchardists, and is universally pronounced 

 to be the very best thing for the purpose ever 

 gotten up. 



We did not enquire the cost, but any one 

 at a distance wanting one cau have it made to 

 order by dropping us a line, in the best man> 

 ner and at the lowest cost. 



Farming at the South. — In calling atten- 

 tion to a meeting of farmers at Petersburg on 

 Tuesday of this week, the Eichmond Wliig 

 takes occasion to say : "The cause of agricul- 

 ture is receiving accessions of energy and 

 ambition everv day in Virginia. Some of the 

 best intellects of the State are turning to it 

 with more exclusive devotion now than has 

 ever been the case before. The Granges are 

 great ad.juncts to the agencies that are work- 

 ing for its advancement. The mental, as well 

 as physical labor of the farmer is in process 

 of being better systematized. The tillers of 

 the soil are beginning to take the touch of 

 elbow among themselves more than they ever 

 did. They are organizing more closely and 

 conferring more frequently and more freelv. 

 These are cheering signs for the old State, and 

 it brightens and heightens the hopes in our 

 hearts to see them." And what the Whig 

 says of Old Virginia, may be said of most of 

 the Southern States. It is the "touch of 

 the elbow" that does the business. — Prairie 

 Farmer. 



