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gardener from sterile New England, who lives one-third of the 

 year in a snow bank ! and the balance in hard toil among stones, 

 &c., here J5nd unsurpassed climate, health and salubrity, as well 

 as fertility. 



Messrs. White and Kelsey, near Oakland, have sold this season 

 4,200 lbs. of strawberries, "British Queen" and "Boston Pine ;" 

 over 8,000 lbs. of raspberries. They think that the Isabella grape 

 will soon supersede all other kinds for open culture ! 



The committee on farms visited the farm in Alameda county, 

 one of the best agricultural districts of Californiaj it contains 800 

 square miles, and gave great crops this season. It has over a mil- 

 lion of fruit trees ; over 13,000 cattle ; hundreds of thousands of 

 grape vines are growing ; and of fruit trees, lemon verbenas, are 

 growing, of twelve feet height; sugar cane flourishes; a rose gera- 

 nium, quite a tree ; thousands of orange, walnut and others grow- 

 ing. 



Sansevaine and Brothers, have 53,000 grape vines, handsomely 

 dressed, heavily loaded with fruit ; will make 80,000 gallons of 

 wine this year. 



Messrs. Fraehling expect to make 80,000 gallons of wine this 

 year. 



John McMurtue's orchard, contains 1,600 apple trees, planted 

 quincunx, 16^ feet apart. 



Geo. Lee has 1,000 orange trees in nursery ; pine apples, bana- 

 nas, citrons, lemons, coffee trees. 



Hon. Wilson Flint has 75,000 peach trees, one year from the 

 bud, forty varieties ; 20,000 apricots, six varieties ; 5,000 necta- 

 rines; plum, forty varieties, 5,000; cherries 18,000; apple 15,000; 

 pomegranates 1,000; grape vines, one and two years old, 50,000. 



Mr. Lich's flour mill, turns out 200 barrels a day of superior 

 flour. 



Mr. L. E. Gould's orchard, 90 acres, is full of fine fruit trees. 

 He has a flourishing field of Chinese sugar cane, (Sorghum.) 



Thomas Fallon has fine pears. Among them are four old Span- 

 ish trees of sixty years old, grafted in 1854, with the Bartlett, 

 which produced this year 3,000 lbs. of pears, which sold for !^600. 



Mr. F. G. Appleton has over 200 bee hives which produce three 

 or four swarms annually. Honey of the finest quality. 



