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and purposes only fall apples. Many others are grown, but the above are 

 the leading varieties. 



Some experiments in handling at time of gathering, which will be made 

 the subject of a later communication, may modify the above. 



Owing to the fact that we have no facilities in shipping fruit, we cannot 

 say much as to profit, only that for our home market, which is quite lim- 

 ited at present, all the varieties named are profitable. But with a railroad, 

 putting us into communication with San Francisco, our opinion is that 

 winter apples would lead in profit, for the following reasons: Very high 

 quality; late keeping; could be put on the market in March and April; 

 freedom from insects; heavy bearing; vigor of trees; no irrigation. 



The following are the leading varieties grown here: 



Apple. — Winter varieties : White Winter Pearmain, Yellow Newtown Pip- 

 pin, Vandevere, Ben Davis, Jonathan, Swaar, Jeniton. Fall varieties: 

 Northern Spy, Yellow Bellflower, Rhode Island Greening, Baldwin. Sum- 

 mer varieties: Red Astrachan, Sweet Bough, Early Harvest, Late Harvest, 

 Gravenstein, Chenango Strawberry. 



Peach. — Crawford's Early, Crawford's Late, Lemon Cling, Early May, 

 Hale's Early, Salway, Red Cling (on trial and growing well), Arkansas 

 Traveler, Hyne's Surprise, Foster, Muir. 



Pear. — Bartlett, Seckel, Winter Nelis, Vicar of Wakefield, Dearborn's 

 Seedling. 



Cherry. — Black Tartarian, Governor Wood, Elton, Royal Ann, May Duke. 

 Plum. — Washington, Yellow Egg, Yellow Gage, Imperial Gage, Bradshaw, 

 Damson. 



Prune. — French, Silver, German, Hungarian. 



Fig. — Mission. 



Apricot. — Royal, Blenheim. 



Report of Geo. E. Shinn, Eureka. 



The fruits which grow to best perfection here are: the apple, pear, 

 plum, prune, and the cherry. These are grown with profit, and will in all 

 probability be the chief fruits grown. As far as I am enabled to learn, it 

 seems mostly experimental with any other large fruits. The peach is not 

 at home near the coast, only about two varieties maturing. Farther back 

 in the mountains some very nice peaches are grown, but nothing like system 

 has ever been introduced into fruit culture. 



VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION. 



Apple. — Early Harvest, Red June, Red Astrachan, Gravenstein, Sweet 

 Bough, Baldwin, Yellow Bellflower, Jonathan, E. Spitzenberg, King of 

 Tompkins County, Lawver, Red Edwards, Rhode Island Greening, Rox- 

 bury Russet, Swaar, Vandevere, Yellow Newtown Pippin. 



Peach. — Alexander, Briggs' Red May, Governor Garland, Crawford's, 

 Hale's Early, Mountain Rose. 



Pear. — Bartlett, Buerre Giffard, Beurre Clairgeau, Buerre d'Anjou, 

 Flemish Beauty, Keiffer Hybrid, Vicar of Wakefield, Winter Nelis. 



Cherry. — May Duke, Governor Wood, Rockport Bigarreau, Black Repub- 

 lican, Black Tartarian, English Morello. 



Plum. — Coe's Golden Drop, Columbia, Green Gage, Kelsey's Japan, 

 Washington, Large Yellow Egg. 



Prune. — Hungarian, German, Silver, Petite. 



