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Cherry. — Centennial, Napoleon Bigarreau, Black Tartarian. 

 Pear. — Bartlett. 



Fig. — Purple and White Adriatic. 

 Nectarine. — New White and Hardwicke. 



Walnut. — There are several trees of the Praeparturiens grafted on the 

 California Wild stock and are doing well. 



Report of E. E. McDaniel, Butte City. 



Very little attention has been given to fruit raising in this neighborhood 

 in the past. Farmers have given all their attention to the cultivation of 

 wheat. The few small orchards that have been planted have had poor 

 cultivation and no irrigation; consequently, in dry seasons the trees suffer 

 and sometimes perish, except on bottom land, where the same is overflown 

 in the winter. On such lands, where the flood is shallow and soon passes 

 away, the growth of the trees and the size and beauty of the fruit is mar- 

 velous. 



There is a small peach orchard, planted in the spring of 1885; the trees 

 are now twenty feet high, and, as they have never been pruned, they are 

 covered with long branches from the ground up, and have already borne 

 two crops of fruit, so heavy as to necessitate the propping up of the limbs to 

 prevent their breaking. I think the peach and apricot particularly suited 

 to this kind of bottom land, and cannot fail to be very profitable. Apples, 

 pears, and plums also do exceedingly well and bear heavy crops. This is 

 in bottom land that floods shallow in the winter; but I think the outside 

 land, with proper cultivation and irrigation, would do perhaps^uite as well. 



INYO COUNTY. 



Report of Wm. Walker, Plancha. 



Apple. — Are planted extensively; nearly all the leading varieties; trees 

 just coming into bearing. 



Peach. — Does well; I think of the finest flavor. 



Plum. — Inclined to overbear; all the leading kinds planted. 



Pear. — Principally Bartlett. 



Cherry. — But few planted; appear to be a failure. 



The fruits I would recommend planting in this district are: apple, peach, 

 nectarine, pear, almond, prune, and all kinds of small fruits. We cannot 

 grow citrus fruits. 



Report of A. C. Harney, Lone Pine. 



Peaches, apples, nectarines, plums, and grapes seem to do remarkably 

 well. I think it is the home of the apple and of the wine grape. The 

 Yellow Bellflower apples do best with us; peaches do well, but only early 

 varieties. The Bartlett pear is about the only one planted. Only a few 

 cherry trees have been tried. Small fruits have been planted very little, 

 only on a small scale. Table grapes do very well. 



EL DORADO COUNTY. 



Report of R. M. McKay, Coloma. 



The most profitable fruit grown in this locality is the peach, followed 

 by the plum, apple, and pear. The following are what I would recom- 

 mend for planting in this locality: 



