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RECOMMENDED FOR PLANTING. 



The Washington Navel orange, Mission olive, Monarch of the West 

 strawberry, Lawton blackberry, Lemon Cling peach, and Royal apricot. 



MARIPOSA COUNTY. 



Report of George Knight, Mariposa. 



This district and county is very backward in any kind of fruit culture, 

 owing to its distance from any market. All fruits and berries do excep- 

 tionally well when intelligently pruned and cultivated. The Yosemite 

 Valley contains about one thousand five hundred apple trees, all planted 

 by its first pioneer, James Lamon. All other varieties of trees in Yosemite 

 do not exceed twenty trees. Apples are large and beautiful, but not extra 

 fine in flavor, owing to its soil being granite debris, with absence of clay 

 and other minerals. In Yosemite small fruits did extra well during the 

 lifetime of Mr. Lamon, but they have died out lately by neglect. No profit 

 in fruits of any kind ; market gone with failure of the mines and the mo- 

 nopoly of the. Yosemite Valley. Hotels are run on very little fruit or berry 

 luxuries. 



All fruits on this schedule do extra well, except six twenty -year old 

 walnut trees that never bore a nut. 



No citrus fruits, but I am sure that they would prosper in sheltered 

 places. All below here on the river is in a thermal belt until reaching the 

 Merced Plains. 



FRUITS CHIEFLY GROWN. 



All kinds, mostly seedlings, and hardly enough for home consumption, 

 with the exception of Marshal Harris and Judge Grant, in the southern 

 township, whose apples command the top figures at San Francisco market. 

 Their places are three thousand feet above tide water, and on the edge of 

 yellow pine belt. Apples do well at six thousand feet, in sheltered places. 



NEW FRUITS. 



I discovered a No. 1 apple, keeping as late as September; it grows at an 

 altitude of four thousand feet; medium in size, with some carmine or red 

 at stem end, resembling the Pearmain in shape. Am testing its keeping 

 and fruiting qualities at my altitude, one thousand eight hundred feet. 

 Think it will be a treasure for California during March, April, and May, 

 when grown at its proper altitude. Four seedling varieties of nectarines, 

 all extra good, and one of them, in my estimation, the pride of America — 

 description: extra large, extra dark red; large seed, its only drawback; 

 very yellow or golden flesh; ripens August first; a seedling from a peach. 



MENDOCINO COUNTY. 



Report o/N. Wagonseller, Ukiah. 



This district, until lately, has been entirely devoted to hop growing. 

 Prunes and pears are the leading fruits. There is considerable land now 

 being devoted to fruit growing. The most profitable fruits to grow are 

 plums, Bartlett and Beurre Hardy pears. 



