Horticultural 'mfnnmitin/i. —The State Hoard of Horticulture have 

 published :l very interesting and instructive report relative to the 

 cultivation, care, and treatment of the various fruits, seeds, and plants 

 in this State, which ought to be in the hands of every person who takes 

 an interest in fruit-growing, hops, and gardening. Complete deserip 

 tions are given of the pests, insects, and fungi of various kinds which 

 have made their appearance in many of the orchards, hop yards, and 

 gardens of the State, and the remedies most beneficial for their eradica- 

 tion. It contains, besides, papers on the method of growing hops, 

 plant food and fertilisers, irrigation, seed tables, ages for fruit-bearing 

 trees and yields, grafting, waxes, &c. 



Spraying is now in common practice, not only in the hop yards, but 

 in the orchards also, and experience has taught a!l that i; is flic only 

 way to ensure a crop. There are about 30,000 acres in this State 

 planted with fruit trees, besides small fruits and gardens ; half of these 

 trees have been planted only four years, and have not arrived at bearing 

 age, but in the next five year-, it is believed, the, annual bearing fruit 

 crop will be about 600,000/. (83,000,000), and the hop industry of 

 equal value and importance. It is recommended to divide the State 

 into horticultural districts, with a commissioner for each, who should 

 \ pest inspector for his district, and be responsible for the condition 



of his district ; an 



d also that lectures 



at varioi 



is centres should be given 



on entomology, & 



{'., for the benefit of the farmer and gardener. 





st orchards in the 



country 1 





destroyed by inse 



cts, which spoil th 





id kill the tree in a short 



The most dest 



tractive pests are 



the Sar, 



.1 ose scale, the woolly 



and green aphis 



, codlin-moth, hop-aphis, 



the box-elder bug, and 



caterpillars. 









All the land east of the Cascade Mountains, where water by irri- 



gation can be had, 



, if judiciously use* 



i. will gr 



o\v good fruit, and a good 



portion can be planted in orchards 1 





irigation ; the light, ashy, 



and sandy soil is 



adaptei 





cultivation, also to hops 



and vegetables. 



it is easily cultivated ant 



I very productive. The 





places is kept up 



by constant cultivation. West of 



the Cascade Moon 



tains, in the Puge 



t Sound 



country, the uplands will 

 les. The clay loams arc 



prove the best fruit lands, especiall; 



j for app 



r.- gooseberries, currants, ra.-pberrit 

 latter is the most profitable, 

 to generally just after winter, before the sap 



best generally during the early summer, th 



Los Angeles and Wilmington. 

 Fruits are the leading products d 3 j.i hereto 



>re have been almost altogether consumed in the United States, being 

 lipped as a rule overland. There is apparently a surplus for export, 

 hich in the near future must be largely increased ; but the quistisn 



