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SAN MATEO COUNTY. 



Report of J. T. Doyle, Menlo Park 



VARIETIES RECOMMENDED FOR PLANTING. 



Cherry or Plum. — The sorts you like, as all do well. 



Grape. — Black Hamburg, Chasselas, small White Muscat (avoid large), 

 White Sweetwater, Babrossa; though not much of the last, as our soil is 

 too rich for it. None but early grapes ripen here. 



English Walnuts. — Are good if you get a good location. Atherton's crop 

 of them, as he informed me, never failed; mine do almost always. His 

 crop of almonds failed three years out of five; mine, never. It is a ques- 

 tion of local frosts in spring. 



Peach. — Hale's Early, Strawberry. 



Pear. — There are so many sorts, I cannot recommend; all do well as far 

 as I can discover. 



VARIETIES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Cherry. — All cherries do well and bear abundantly, and large fruit; but 

 the birds are so abundant that you must cover your trees, as a guard over 

 them, if you want fruit. 



Plums. — Do very well; yield plentiful crops and good fruits. I cannot 

 say more in favor of one sort than another. 



Prune. — I am not able to speak as to prunes; will plant some this winter, 

 and when better informed will report again. 



Apple. — I have fifty or sixty trees of various varieties; can't say any do 

 well, except a big sort given to me as "Magnum Bonum," or a similar 

 name. Pippins are poor; Pearmains the same; Bellflowers do not bear at 

 all, run all to wood. 



Peach. — Hale's Early is the best according to my experience, and is 

 really good; the Crawfords are dry; Strawberry very fair. Late peaches 

 do not ripen here. 



Pear. — All pears do very well; for me, the Bartlett seems the best. 



Small Fruits. — I do not think small fruits are raised to any great extent. 

 I tried strawberries, blackberries, and currants, and I failed. I do not feel 

 tempted to repeat the experiment, as I feel sure that no one can get good 

 results out of small fruits in this soil and locality. 



Report of W. J. McNulty, Woodside. 



Nearly all kinds of fruit do well here without irrigation. The foothills 

 are especially adapted to grapes, prunes, pears, and apples. The codlin 

 moth is about all we have to contend with; it prevails to an almost alarm- 

 ing extent this year. 



FRUITS CHIEFLY GROWN. 



Apples, pears, peaches, French prunes, grapes, blackberries, and straw- 

 berries. 



LEADING VARIETIES. 



Apple. — Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Strawberry, Jonathan, Baldwin, 

 Spitzenberg, Smith's Cider, Yellow Bellflower, Winesap, Yellow Newtown 

 Pippin, White Winter Pearmain, King of Tompkins County. 



