2i3 



FRUITS RECOMMENDED. 



I would not recommend oranges, lemons, nor limes for planting in this 

 district, for the white cottony cushion scale bug has ruined nearly all the 

 orchards in this district; after righting them for years, we yield to them. 



NEW FRUITS. 



Hollister's White Seedling peach. 

 The leading varieties grown in this district are: 



Apple. — Early Harvest, Red June, Early Strawberry, Red Astrachan, 

 Fall Pippin, Rambo, White Bellflower, Yellow Newtown Pippin, White 

 Winter Pearmain, Russet. 



Peach. — Royal George, Crawford, George's Cling, Strawberry. 



Pear. — Sugar, Bartlett, Winter Nelis, Madeline. 



Cherry. — Black Tartarian is the only cherry that does well. 



SANTA CLARA COUNTY. 



Report of W. H. Aiken, Wrights. 



Grapes and fruits mature slowly and ripen late in the season, the latest 

 in the State I believe. They grow large and firm, and are of good flavor; 

 keeping good prices in local and eastern markets. They are grown in the 

 Santa Cruz Mountains, sixty-five miles from San Francisco, at an elevation 

 of about fifteen hundred feet. The soil is rich and deep for mountain 

 regions. The climate is cool, invigorating, and healthy; rainfall, from thirty 

 to sixty inches a year. 



PROFITABLE FRUITS. 



The most profitable fruits grown in this district are: plums, prunes, pears, 

 and apples. 



FRUITS RECOMMENDED. 



I would recommend the planting of the French prune, Bartlett pear, 

 Jonathan apple, Coe's Golden Drop or Silver prune, and Napoleon Bigar- 

 reau cherry. The leading varieties grown in this district are about as 

 follows : 



Apple. — Yellow Newtown Pippin, Jonathan, Yellow Bellflower, Red As- 

 trachan, Smith's Cider, Baldwin, Hoover. 

 Peach. — Early Crawford. 

 Pear. — Bartlett. 



Table Grape. — Muscat of Alexandria, Black Muscat, Rose of Peru, Flame 

 Tokay, Black Hamburg, Black Ferrara, Cornichon. 



Report of Wm. Pfeffer, Gubserville. 



The Olive. — My experience about olive culture is very small; but think 

 I have seen one thing: that the proper location for an olive grove is of the 

 first importance. Too rich and moist a soil is for the olive about as bad as 

 for the grapevine, while on the other hand, I don't care to have an olive 

 grove on very poor land. As to the varieties to plant, the olive grower has 

 no need to go through such an everlasting experimenting as the vineyardist. 

 The Mission olive is in that respect like the Mission grape. Parties well 



