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to 41, a distance of live hundred and ninety-five miles from 

 north to south, with an average breadth from east to west of 

 about one hundred miles. The number of grape vines in the 

 State is 30,000,000, including in round numbers 4,000,000 

 each in Los Angeles and Sonoma, 2,000,000 each in Napa and 

 Sacramento, 1,500,000 each in El Dorado, Solano, and Tu- 

 olumne, 1,000,000 eaeh in Santa Clara and Amado^ and 800,- 

 000 each in Butte, Placer, and San Joaquin. The basin of 

 San Francisco Bay, west of the Diablo ridge, has 9,500,000 ; 

 the low land of the Sacramento Basin, 7,500,000 ; the coast, 

 south of 35, 5,200,000 ; and the Sierra Nevada has 8,000,000. 

 A large majority of the vines are planted in bottom lands, 

 where the vines can be started and cultivated with least in- 

 convenience, and where they bear most abundantly. 



174. Large, vines and vineyards. The grape vine sup- 

 posed to be the largest in the world, grows at Montecito, near 

 Santa Barbara. It is of the Los Angeles variety, was planted 

 in 1795, has a trunk 15 inches in diameter, and its branches 

 are supported by an arbor 115 feet long and 78 feet wide. It 

 has in a favorable year borne four tons of grapes, but is now 

 losing its vigor and will probably not live much longer. The 

 State has a number of other large vines, some of which bear 

 2,000 bunches annually, and threaten to rival the old vine at 

 Montecito. 



The largest vineyard of the State is that of the Buena Vista 

 Vinicultural Association, which has 300,000 vines near the 

 town of Sonoma. B. D. Wilson, at San Gabriel, has 200,000 

 vines ; L. J. Rose, near the same place, 130,000; Matthew 

 Keller, at Los Angeles, 100,000 ; the Orleans Hill Vineyard 

 Company, in Capay Valley, 36 miles west of Sacramento, 

 100,000 ; R. Chalmers, at Coloma, 100,000 ; S.L. Wilson, near 

 Sacramento, 75,000 ; B. N". Bugbey, near Folsom, 100,000. 

 The figures for many other large vineyards are lacking. Most 

 of these vineyards are planted with 700 or 800 vines to the 

 acre. 



