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FRUIT TREES, LEADING VARIETIES IN THE DISTRICT. 



Apple. — White Winter Pearmain, Yellow Newtown Pippin, Red Astra- 

 chan. 



Peach. — Late Crawford, Early Crawford, Salway, Susquehanna, Lemon 

 Cling, Heath Cling. 



Pear. — Bartlett, Winter Nelis. 



Plum. — Washington, German, Coe's Golden Drop. 



Prune. — French, Silver. 



Fig. — White Adriatic, Brown, Smyrna (Bulletin). 

 Apricot. — Royal. 



Small Fruits. — Kittatinny blackberry, Cuthbert raspberry, Monarch of 

 the West strawberry (early), Sharpless strawberry (medium). During the 

 season past, there were taken to Los Angeles from Alhambra, twelve tons of 

 blackberries, fourteen tons of raspberries, five tons of strawberries. 



Table Grapes. — White Muscat, Rose of Peru, Flame Tokay, Seedless 

 Sultana, White Sweetwater, Black Hamburg, Black Ferrara. 



Report of J. E. McComas, Pomona. 



The leading fruits of this district are oranges, lemons, limes, apricots, 

 prunes, figs, plums, pears, and the olive. All these fruits do well in this 

 section. 



Small fruits are quite extensively grown, and more territory is being set 

 out every year; in fact, that industry is rapidly on the increase. 



Report of B. 0. Clark, Pasadena. 



The orange and lemon, apricots, peaches, and prunes have all paid well 

 where properly cared for, and the Adriatic fig is destined to be valuable. 

 All fruits do well on the highlands at base of Sierra Madre Mountains, but 

 there has not been any well directed effort made in fruit growing the past 

 two years, many orchards having passed into the hands of speculators who 

 have allowed them to go to weeds; but we still have some good young 

 orchards, which are just coming into bearing and promise to be profitable 

 to their owners. There will be more attention given to fruit growing in 

 future. 



FRUITS CHIEFLY GROWN. 



Orange, lemon, apricot, peach, apple, prune, grapes, and olives. The 

 oldest Redding Picholine olive trees in the State grow here and have proved 

 themselves unfit for the California grower, being small fruit and shy bearers. 



FRUITS RECOMMENDED FOR PLANTING. 



Orange, lemon, olive, fig, apricot, peach, prune, winter apples, small 

 fruits, including the guava; soft shell walnuts on some land especially 

 suited, and the citron in limited quantities. 



NEW FRUITS. 



A new seedling cling peach fruited here this season, which I believe will 

 be very valuable. It is yellow, very high color and flavor, very smooth, 

 round, fine shape, ripens just after Orange Cling, and in every way superior 

 to that variety. 



