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We will become noted for tlie size, flavour, and general 

 superior excellence of our fruits, and tlie apricot in 

 p articular. — ra I Ca lifo r nia . 



Thos. a. Garey. 

 Before Pomological Society of 

 Southern California. 



George W. Ford, of Santa Ana, has been buying 

 dried apricots for Porter Bros. & Co., of San Francisco. 

 He has so far purchased for this firm about $35,000 

 worth of this product in Orange county, the prices paid 

 ranging from 10^ to 12^ cents per pound. Mr. Ford is 

 one of the best posted men in the fruit business in this 

 part of the State, and his estimate of the value of the 

 crop is apt to be nearly correct. He says that the value 

 of the apricot crop in Orange county will be about 

 $300,000 this season, which is within itself a snug little 

 sum to be put in circulation there. — Rural California. 



Eeturns from the apricot growers, who dried their 

 own fruit this season, have begun to come in, says 

 The Californian. The bulk of the dried fruit has 

 been sold here during the past week at 12 and 12^ 

 cents a pound. The Abelle orchard of 300 trees on 

 three and one half acres of land yielded a crop of 22 

 tons that has sold for $905*62. The net profit from the 

 sale was $812.50 or $249 an acre. The trees on the 

 place are eight years old. Two years ago the same 

 orchard yielded a crop that sold for $646 or $170 an 

 acre. Mrs. Mary St. John tells us that she sold her 

 dried apricots from 187 six-year-old trees (about an 

 acre and a half; for 12 cents a pound, and received 

 $259.20. She did her own fruit drying, except for 



