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Johnson, on his ranch upon the banks of Bear river, ^seighing 06 

 lbs to the bushel, with a kernel nearly double the size of large 

 wheat ^ raspberries 5 inches in circumference; barley from the 

 San Jose Valley, of which 965 bushels were produced from less 

 than 5 acres of land ; some from the farm of Madame Scoofy, of 

 Sonora, where 13 acres, by ordinary cultivation, produced a crop 

 of 53,000 lbs; these walls festooned witli luscious grapes from 

 Captain Maltby,of Los Angelos— single bunches from the garden 

 of Gen. Vallejo, at Sonora, weighing 10 lbs; apples, peaches, 

 figs, and other fruits of enormous size from the same ; from Mr. 

 Horner, tomatoes weighing 2 lbs each ; pumpkins and squashes 

 100 to 140 lbs ; cabbages 2 feet in diameter and weighing over 50 

 lbs; onions, beets and potatoes of enormous size, not isolated, but 

 by hundreds of bushels, the top onion producing the first season 

 from the ordinary seed, with samples of wheat and barley of un- 

 common size and weight ; and added to the exhibition are also 

 beautiful specimens of the Daguerrean and phonographic art, 

 from Mr. Shew and also from Mr. Bradley ; lemon syrup of ex- 

 ceeding excellence, manufactured and exhibited by Messrs Sweet 

 & Co., ojf this city ; exquisite feather work, by Madame Paccard ; 

 besides samples and specimens of countless varieties of plants, 

 herbs, vines, fruits, grains and esculents of exceeding size and 

 singular perfection, collected by Mr. Shelton, to the enumeration 

 of which the proper extent of this address is wholly inadequate. 

 Among the tropical productions introduced by him, are coffee, 

 ginger, banana, plantain and pomegranate, which are now in pro- 

 gress of successful cultivation, and he has this day received from 

 Valparaiso, a choice assortment of rare and valuable exotics, the 

 entire stock of a green-house, embracing two thousand of the 

 choicest French and Italian grape vines, fifty varieties choice 

 pear trees, six varieties of plums, three of apricots, twenty of 

 peaches, five of currants, and seven thousand asparagus plants. 

 Of flowers, there are fifty varieties of jessamine, four of althea 

 fratres or African Hibiscus, eight of chrysanthemums, twelve of 

 althea, the wax plant, pinks, cactus, eighty-four dahlias, and over 

 one thousand rose bushes. 



I have recently been informed by one of our adopted Celestials, 

 whose phrenological developements of " auri sacra fames," pre- 



