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Peach. — Briggs' Red Early, Early and Late Crawford, Snow, Indian, 

 Strawberry. (Other varieties too numerous to mention.) 

 Pear. — Bartlett, Winter Nelis. 

 Cherry. — Black Tartarian, Rockport Red. 



Table Grape. — Flame Tokay, Muscat, Rose of Peru, Black Morocco. 



Blackberry. — Early Wilson, Early Crandall, Lawton. 



Plum. — Yellow Egg, Kelsey, and a small blue, name unknown. 



Prune. — French, Hungarian, Silver. 



Fig. — Blue, White Adriatic. 



The apricot is perhaps more extensively grown, and thrives very well. 

 The names of the kinds under cultivation unknown. Small fruits are but 

 little grown, although they do exceedingly well, haymaking and harvest- 

 ing interfering with their proper care at the critical time. 



Report of W. T. Spillman, Pennington. 



Pennington is situated at the north end of the Marysville Buttes. We 

 have fine land that produces almost any kind of fruit without irrigation. 

 There are orchards here the finest I have ever seen, so I am satisfied that 

 this is a good place for the growing of almost all fruits; we never have 

 frosts. The apricot does perhaps best with us, never having been bothered 

 with insect pests of any kind. All the trees in this section have made 

 exceedingly large growth this year. Early and late peaches are also a 

 good paying crop. The same may be said of the pear, prune, fig, and 

 grape. 



NEW FRUITS. 



I have a peach, grown from the seed. It is a white cling, very large, 

 fine flavor. The tree is only three years old, and last spring it bore about 

 one hundred pounds of fine fruit. I obtained the seed from a peach that 

 came from the State Fair. 



TEHAMA COUNTY. 



Report of Albert 0. Peden, Corning. 



I regret very much not having been able to obtain the desired informa- 

 tion, which is of such vast importance, from the leading fruit growers of 

 this county, and have therefore labored under a great disadvantage in the 

 completion of my report. 



FRUITS CHIEFLY GROWN. 



The leading fruits grown in this district, or county, are prunes, peaches, 

 and grapes. Other fruits of course do well, such as oranges, olives, wal- 

 nuts, almonds, etc., but as yet are not so largely grown as the former. 

 The Early Harvest apple also pays well. 



TULARE COUNTY. 



Report of N. W. Motheral, Hanford. 



This district grows the grape to perfection. Apples do not do well. 

 Peaches, pears, plums, nectarines, and apricots do as well here as any- 

 where in the State. Oranges and lemons grow in sheltered places. Apples 

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