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FRUITS RECOMMENDED FOR PLANTING. 



Apple. — White Winter Pearmain, Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Yel- 

 low Bellflower, Gravenstein, Holland Pippin, Baldwin, King of Tomp- 

 kins County, Rhode Island Greening, Swaar, Vandevere, Yellow Newtown 

 Pippin. 



Peach. — I would recommend, for the fog district, Hale's Early, Governor 

 Garland, and Alexander; for the mountains, any strong bearer that the 

 hot weather would injure the least. 



Pear. — Bartlett, Winter Nelis, Flemish Beauty, and the Beurre family. 

 Nearly all kinds of cherries grow to perfection, and bear enormous crops. 



REMARKS. 



Plums grow here as if this was their native home, and I am satisfied any 

 kind will bear abundantly. Trees have to be propped on all sides to pre- 

 serve the limbs. Prunes do the same as plums; as to quality I am not pre- 

 pared to say. The Petite prune and the Silver prune seem to take the lead. 

 Small fruits are grown very extensively, but only for the home market. All 

 kinds do very well. 



KERN COUNTY. 



Report of C. Brower, Bakersfield. 



Little attention has been paid thus far to fruit raising in our county. 

 With one or two trifling exceptions, the trees and vines now growing here 

 were planted experimentally or for family use only, and although marked 

 success has attended almost every effort, and our fruits, for size, beauty, 

 and excellence, stand unexcelled and scarcely equaled, our comparative 

 distance from market and the policy of discouragement from the Southern 

 Pacific Railroad Company, has prevented the spread of this industry, and 

 directed the attention of our people more generally toward alfalfa and stock 

 raising, for which our climate and soil with an abundance of water at com- 

 mand for irrigation, render our section peculiarly adapted. With the ad- 

 vent of competing lines of railroad now pointing this way, however, this 

 condition must change, and our county take its place where it properly 

 belongs, among the fruit-growing and raisin-making sections of the State. 

 Owing to circumstances as above stated, fruit growing has not been pur- 

 sued in our county for profit to any extent as yet. The most promising 

 fruits, however, may be stated to be: George's Late and Early peaches, and 

 Bartlett pears, and also Winter Nelis pears for shipping and canning, and 

 appropriate varieties of peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums, prunes (especi- 

 ally d'Agen), figs, and raisin grapes (especially Seedless Sultanas). 



The leading varieties grown here are: 



Apple. — Yellow Newtown Pippin, Smith's Cider, White Winter Pear- 

 main, Astrachan, Yellow Bellflower, Gloria Mundi, Sour Bough. 



Peach. — George's Late Cling, Late Crawford, Morris White, Honest Abe, 

 Alexander, Orange Cling, Old Mixon Free. 



Pear. — Bartlett, Winter Nelis, Seckel, Easter Beurre, Duchesse d'Angou- 

 leme, Flemish Beauty. 



Cherry. — Governor Wood, Elton, Black Tartarian. Cherries are not pro- 

 lific bearers in our warm climate. 



Plum. — Coe's Golden Drop, Washington, Bradshaw, Yellow Egg, Peach, 

 Shopshire Damson. 



Prune. — Petite Prune d'Agen, German. 



