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Eeport of Wm. Hannibal, Agnevjs. 



The lowlands of Santa Clara Valley, around Alviso and Agnews, are 

 given almost wholly to the raising of small berries, vegetables, apples, and 

 pears. Stone fruits and grapes do not do well here, with the exception of 

 Silver, French, and Gross prune. 



VARIETIES CULTIVATED. 



Apple. — Smith's Cider, Jonathan, Red Astrachan, Hoover, Yellow New- 

 town Pippin. 



Peach. — Lemon Cling, Wager. 



Pear. — Winter Nelis, Beurre Diel, Beurre Clairgeau, Vicar, Columbia, 

 Bartlett, Beurre Hardy, Seckel. 

 Prune. — Silver, French, Gross. 

 Fig. — Black. 



Small Fruits. — Berries are grown here more perhaps than in any other 

 part of the State, and they pay very well. We do not count it any crop 

 at all if we do not make over $300 per acre off strawberries and raspber- 

 ries, and about the same off blackberries, although I have made $700 per 

 acre off blackberries and $500 off strawberries. 



Report of Geo. Niggley, San Felipe. 



The most profitable fruits in the district are winter apples and pears — 

 those that are good for shipping; cherries are also a good paying crop. 



LEADING VARIETIES. 



Cherry. — Black Tartarian, Cleveland Bigarreau, Napoleon Bigarreau, 

 Governor Wood, Black Eagle. 



Plum. — Coe's Golden Drop, Egg, Blue Damson, and all varieties to a 

 small extent. 



Prune. — French, German. 



Fig. — Common Black, White Smyrna. 



Apple. — Yellow Newtown Pippin, Yellow Bellflower, White Winter Pear- 

 main, Smith's Cider, Gravenstein. 



Peach. — Early Crawford, Late Crawford, Seller's Cling, Orange Cling, 

 Lemon Cling. 



Pear. — Bartlett, Winter Nelis, Beurre Clairgeau, Beurre Hardy, Seckel, 

 Flemish Beauty. 



SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. 



Report of Dr. J. M. Stewart, Santa Cruz. 



I shall call Santa Cruz more a wine-grape-growing county than anything 

 else. I have no doubt that when the orchard wine grapevines of which 

 she is now so proud, are grafted over to the best kinds, she will excel in 

 producing the finest of wines. Yet Santa Cruz bears a large amount of 

 table grapes, and possesses, as regards these, the almost unique advantage 

 of ripening them in October, November, and even December, and can thus 

 offer them to the markets when nearly all other places are out of grapes. 

 ^Like apples, pears did excellently in Santa Cruz before the appearance 

 of the codlin moth; to-day still Watsonville fears not the codlin moth, 

 and has thus an immense advantage in her cold fogs, which kill off the 



