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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



one above the other. Grafting wax : 4 lb. resin, 2 lb. beeswax, 1 lb. 

 tallow. Spraying calendar and formulas. Farm statistics of the State. 



C. H. H. 



Fruit Culture at our State Farms. By S. C. Voller (Qu. Agr. 

 Journ. ix. pp. 548-551 ; December 1901 ; 4 plates). — This communica- 

 tion is chiefly concerned in describing the methods of pruning fruit trees 

 as adopted at the state farms, with sixteen different figures from photo- 

 graphs of trees before and after pruning. — M. C. C. 



Fruit Industry of California, Statistics on the. By E. S. 



Holmes {U.S.A. Dep. Agr. (Div. StaL), Bull. 23; 1901).— This 

 industry started by the Franciscan monks at their mission stations has 

 increased to about 16,000,000 trees in bearing, 14,000,000 non-bearing, 

 acreage undar fruit 610,000 acres. Of this area 157,000 acres are under 

 Grape, 116,000 Prune, 80,000 Peach, 40,000 Apricot, 53,000 Orange, 

 80,000 Olive, 23,000 each Almond and Apple, 22,000 Pear, 8,000 Cherry, 

 4,500 Fig, 20,000 Walnut. These fruits thrive well in most parts of 

 California. Next to Grapes, Prunes are more extensively cultivated than 

 any other fruit. The yield is very heavy, trees in full bearing yielding 

 annually from 150 to 300 lb. of green fruit each. Apples thrive pheno- 

 menally well along the coast where the temperature is not too high, in 

 the mountain countries. Oranges and Lemons are profitably grown 

 along the foot hills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains from San Diego to 

 Tehama County, a length of over 700 miles and a width of three to thirty 

 miles. Statistics follow as to the number of bearing and non-bearing trees 

 in each county, also shipments by rail and sea. About 520,000 tons of 

 fruit were shipped by rail and sea in 1900. — C. H. H. 



Fruit Packing". By H. T. Martin (Gard. Mag. No. 2530, p. 262, 

 26/4/1902). — A series of notes (continued in the following number) upon 

 the proper mode of packing fruit, a very important matter to most 

 gardeners. The instructions given appear to be thoroughly practical and 

 clearly stated, and include remarks upon all fruits grown in English 

 gardens. Wood wool and paper shavings as packing material seem to be 

 most favoured by the writer for the packing of soft fruits excepting Straw- 

 berries, for which he uses the soft leaves of Malva crispa, grown specially 

 for the purpose. — W. G. 



Fruit Soils and Fruit List of Virginia. By Wm. B Alwood 



(U.S.A. Exp. Shi. Virginia, Bull. 98). — Blacksburg, Montgomery County, 

 Virginia. Apples, Pears, Quinces, Peaches, Plums, Cherries, Blackberries, 

 Raspberries, Currants, Gooseberries, Strawberries, and Grapes, comparing 

 ^ in H tie- as to colour, quality, season, use, origin, as to suitability in five 

 different districts, with remarks. — C. II. II. 



Fruit Trees, Propagation and Planting of. By W. L. Howard 



( U.SA. St. Bd. Missouri Bull. vol. i. No. 11 ; 1902). — Good description 

 of raising Apple seedlings and root grafting, also cleft grafting and 

 budding, well illustrated— C. II. II. 



