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twice the size and weight it. does with us in one season. 

 We heard of sinii'le ones weighing 118 pounds. A com- 

 pany has been organized here ibr manufacturing beet 

 sugar ; and this same establishment proposes to unite the 

 manufacture, on their own grounds, of currant jelly, 

 which is so extensively put up in San Francisco. 



In Napa valley we examined an orchard containing 100 

 acres. Here we saw a line apple orchard, one of the best 

 in that vicinity. The Earl}' Harvest and lied Astrachan 

 were fit to gather. AVilliam's Favorite was largely plant- 

 ed, and looked remarkably well. The following sorts 

 were named as the most prolitable, in addition to those 

 we have mentioned : Early Strawberry, Summer Eose, 

 Early Harvest, Wine Sop, Rawles Janet, Newtown Pip- 

 pin, White Pearmain, Roxbury Russet, Rhode Island 

 Greeniuij, Yellow Bellflowcr, and Smith's Cider. The 

 Northern Spy and Baldwin failed, and had been grafted 

 over with Yellow Bellilower and other sorts ; the New- 

 town Pippin bearing off the palm as the best. 



We visited another of the pioneers in fruit culture in 

 California. When he conunenced he planted peach 

 stones, and in eio^hteen months fathered fruit from the 

 trees, and sold in San Francisco many thousand bushels, 

 and some at enormous prices. Cherries also flourished 

 here, the Duke predominant. 



Another orchard lies in the heart of this beautiful val- 

 ley, of 125 acres of fruit trees and vines, all in the finest 

 state of cultivation ; the only defect being that the trees 

 stand too closely together. They were of tw^elve years' 

 planting ; many were eighteen inches to two feet in diam- 

 eter of trunk, and twenty-five to thirty feet in height. 

 Of the 125 acres, 25 are in grapes, 50 in apples, and the 

 balance in pears, cherries, &c. The apple succeeded 

 here ; the varieties wore Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, 

 Fall Pippin, Fallawater, Yellow Bellilower, Smith's Cider, 

 and White Winter Pearmain. The view of this orchard, 

 as we rode through a lawn seeming more like an English 

 park in extent, was grand and imposing ; the Avhole estate 

 with its grain fields comprising 2300 acres. 



