Fruit Farming for Profit in California, 95 



for the two years from three acres of land. This would 

 amount to 8340 an acre for the two seasons, or 8170 an 

 acre for each season. Last year his neighbour, Jas. 

 Stevenson, obtained §65 from an acre and a quarter 

 planted to pear trees, but this year he realized, by ship- 

 ping to the cannery, $218, or abont §175 an acre. The 

 Bartlett and all other varieties of pears do well in the 

 foothills, and, as will be seen above, they are profitable 

 crops to produce. — Rural Press, September 24th, 1892. 



The United States are sending out to Europe annually 

 millions of dollars for lemons. It is doubtful if there is 

 enough good lemon land in Southern California on which 

 to raise enough lemons to supply the present and the ever 

 increasing demand for that popular fruit. It is safe to 

 predict, however, that within the next quarter of a 

 century this south-western corner of Uncle Sam's 

 dominion will receive many of the millions of money 

 that are now being sent to Europe for lemons. — Rural 

 California, 



KoTEs ON Roses. 

 \Jjrown Vista,'] 



Just now when the public attention is being directed 

 to roses, the following from the pen of Flora M. Kim- 

 ball, which we find in an exchange, may be of general 

 interest : — 



" I would not advise in this climate of uninterrupted 

 sunshine the training of roses in tree shape. Lacking 

 the shade afforded by low branches the stalk scalds and 

 the growth is retarded. This is illustrated by high- 



