I3O HORTICULTURE BY IRRIGATION. 



for trial, many of which are now in bearing ; have no reason to condemn 

 or even to complain of any variety yet; all perfectly healthy and no 

 winter killing, codling moth, borer or any other insect or pest. Pears 

 have done fairly well, having on my grounds five varieties, and not a 

 blighted leaf on any of my fruits. 



I sold my blackberries this season at fifteen cents per quart, and the 

 yield brought me fully $400 per acre. 



I have ten varieties of cherries, same number of plums, and about 

 the same of apricots and peaches. All my apricots are Russian except 

 one variety. 



The Morello family .of cherries are as hardy as the oak. All our 

 small fruits have done remarkably well this season, and my grapes are a 

 wonder to behold, six-ye'ar-old vines having one hundred and fifty pounds 

 of fruit on. I have some sixteen varieties in bearing; my first in favor is 

 the Niagara ; next choice is hard to make among the following: Rogers' 

 No. 1 and 9, Janesville, Catawba, or Telegraph, and two other unnamed 

 varieties. The Clint< n is a wonderful bearer here. The Salem (No. 22) 

 is a good bearer, good grower and a good grape, but it drops from the 

 bloom so as to make bunches open and loose. 



I am now trying a lew California varieties with good prospects. 



We have a favored spot here for fruit growing, no doubt the best in 

 the State. Our altitude is 5,500 feet above the sea level. 



I have seen growing at an altitude of 7,800 feet the following fruits : 

 Duchess apples, Whitney, Transcendant and Siberian crabs. I saw these 

 fruits last week. The trees were very full of fruit, but the fruit was 

 small, especially the Duchess apple, which were not larger than crabs. 



We have quite an extent of country in this part of the State that 

 ranges from 6,000 to 8,000 feet altitude, that in time will be utilized for 

 fruit growing quite extensively in the near future, especially for small 

 fruits. It is high table-land with a good deal of timber and grasses, 

 where the snow falls about three feet in winter and rains often during the 

 summer season, with a climate much like a portion of Michigan. 



There is one thing I can note as very peculiar in the fruit trees on 

 this Western or Pacific Slope: Our trees may make a wonderful growth 

 of wood during the summer and will bud profusely at the same time, and 

 if a late frost should happen to come in April or early in May (which we 

 have never had) and kill off our grape crop, by giving the vineyard a 

 thorough irrigation for about three days the vines will re-set and make a 



