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other gentleman at San Lorenzo, who has 125 acres in 

 fruits, planted fifteen years since, and was one of the ear- 

 liest, most experienced and successful fruit growers in 

 that country. We found him in his extensive and well- 

 arranged fruit-packing house, preparing apricots, cher- 

 ries, early plums, pears, and currants for market. All 

 were remarkably fine. He had sent that morning to San 

 Francisco, cherries that measured three and three fourths 

 inches in circumference, and weighed thirty-six to the 

 pound. He sends annually about 65,000 pounds of cher- 

 ries at from ten to forty cents per pound, though some of 

 the earliest had brought seventy-five cents per pound. 

 All are sold in San Francisco, the Black Tartarian always 

 securing the highest price. He has forty acres of cherry 

 currants ; the bushes were covered with masses of fruit of 

 enormous size. He has sold 140,000 pounds in one year 

 at from nine to eleven cents per pound. The currants 

 are trained in bush form on single stems, and the branch- 

 es are carefully shortened during the growing season, to 

 keep them compact and prevent breaking dov/n. Of 

 blackberries he has eight or ten acres, all Lawton. Gen- 

 erally this berry does not succeed as well as at the East, 

 though we sa'w exceptions, to which we will refer hereaf- 

 ter. Pears are packed in fifty-pound and apples in sixty- 

 pound l)oxes. Pears thrive here grandly ; and he has 

 raised the Pound or Uvedale's St. Germain weighing four 

 pounds three ounces,.* 



Almonds are grown to great size, in lines of half a 

 mile, both in the tree and fruit. We saw one tree four- 

 teen years old, fifteen inches in diameter, that has yielded 

 three bushels, which were sold at twenty-eight cents per 

 pound. He has 2000 trees on his grounds. The English 

 walnut succeeds as well, and some of the trees are already 

 large enough to bear two bushels of nuts each. 



The sugar beet in this luxuriant soil attains to fully 



* Since the delivery of tliis address, a pear of the same variet^^has 

 been received by Mr. Wilder, from California, weighing- four pounds 

 nine ounces. — Secretary. 



