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MOST PROFITABLE FRUITS GROWN. 



Wine grapes, apples, peaches, apricots, Bartlett pears, plums, prunes, 

 and cherries. 



VARIETIES RECOMMENDED FOR PLANTING. 



Apple. — Baldwin, Hoover, Bethel, Northern Spy, Cook's Seedling, Spitz- 

 enberg. 



Cherry. — Royal Ann. 



Peach. — Early Crawford, Hale's Early, Alexander. 

 Pear. — Bartlett. 



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



VARIETIES IN GENERAL CULTIVATION. 



Apple. — Hoover, Swaar, Yellow Newtown Pippin, Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, Gravenstein, Yellow Bellflower, White Bellflower, Baldwin, Red Astra- 

 khan, Spitzenberg, Cook's Seedling, Rome Beauty, Bethel. 



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

 Alexander, Early Strawberry, Salway. 



Pear. — Bartlett, Seckel. 



Cherry. — Royal Ann, Black Tartarian. 



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



Prune. — Hungarian, French. 



Table Grape. — Black Hamburg, Flame Tokay, Catawba, Rose of Peru, 

 Sweetwater, Black Malvoisie, White Muscat, Black Muscat. 



Report of Dr. A. F. White, Santa Rosa. 



Fig Culture. — After listening attentively to the discussion concerning the 

 specimen of figs which Mr. Parker exhibited at the meeting of the State 

 Horticultural Convention in Chico, I determined to follow up the investiga- 

 tion, and, if possible, ascertain something reliable of its history and real 

 merits. I was sorry that I could not get a specimen of the fruit, so as to 

 make a partial personal examination of the pulp, seeds, and such other 

 characteristics as might have appeared. 



There can be no doubt that the fig was introduced into California by the 

 proprietors of the San Francisco " Bulletin" some years ago, from Smyrna. 

 This ancient and important city of Asia Minor gave name to the gulf at the 

 head of which it stands, and to an extensive and productive country with 

 which it is surrounded. The fig is grown in every part in the greatest abun- 

 dance, and enters largely into the food of the people, and is a prominent 

 article of export. 



The City of Smyrna has a population of about one hundred and fifty 

 thousand, consisting of Turks, Jews, Greeks, Americans, and French. The 

 English have constructed a railroad in a southeasterly direction eighty-one 

 miles to Aiden, an important inland commercial city. Another railroad 

 runs further to the eastward sixty-one miles to Cassaba, and terminates 

 twenty-two miles further on at Alasker — the Philadelphia of sacred history. 

 The country thus opened to the commerce of the world is diversified with 

 hills and plains ; has a growing population, and a fertile soil. It is a remark- 

 able fact that it extends through exactly the same degrees of latitude with 

 Central California, and produces many of the same grains, fruits, nuts, and 

 flowers. 



