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White Pearinain.— Medium; pale yel- 
low. Keeps well. 
Yellow Bellfiower. — Very large; light 
yellow. December to January. 
Red Astraclian. — Medium; aub-aoid. 
July. 
Stump.— Large; ligbt red. Summer. 
Golden Reinctte.— Medium; round; yel- 
low. Keeps good. 
Common Reinette. — Medium; round; 
.yellowish gray. Good keeper. 
Queen of Reinettes.— Medium; yellow; 
striped red; highly flavored; very product- 
ive. Good keeper. 
VRed Calville. — Large; red; handsome; 
firm; juicy; niceiy flavored. November to 
l^Iaroh. 
White Calville.— Large; yellow, Late. 
Cider Apples.— Four varieties. 
PIGS. 
'San Jose Blacit.— Small, but very fine; 
quite productive. Very dssirable for family 
use. 
White Magdalen.— Medium; white; ob- 
long; excellent. The earliest kind. 
Buissonue. — Medium; black. Good for 
shipping. 
Franche Pailiarde. — Medium; oval 
dark brown; rich. 
Versailles. —Large; round; greenish 
yellow; very sweet; rich. Good for ship 
Jaune Longne. — Medium large; oval 
yellow. 
\ Verdale. — Medium; broad oval; skin 
\thick; flesh red; sweet. Good for drying. 
^ Napolitaiiie. — Large; oval; skin fine; 
\ blonde yellow; sweet and well flavored. 
'/ Moirmoutier. — Yellow, with red stripes; 
. medium large; prolifio. 
Pagaudiere. — Yellowish -red; medium 
large; rich. 
.WHITE FIGS FOB DRYING. 
Grosse Marseillaise. — Large, round, 
. rich. 
^ Date. — Medium, very sweet, rich, 
y Blanqnette. — Medium, roundish, very 
fine. Early. 
The three above varieties are, it 
seems, under French names, the very kinds 
cultivated in Asia-Minor for drying, with 
Smyrna for an entrepot. A great deal has 
been said lately on the Smyrna Fig, a fig 
that does not exist under that name. Those 
varieties that furnish the article of com- 
merce known under the name of " Smyrna 
Figs," have been long ago introduced in 
France, Italy, Greece— in fact, all over the 
Mediterranean basin, where they are known 
under local names; so were we told in an- 
swer to our inquiries. But it seems, as it 
is the case with the " Zaute Currant," that 
those varieties of figs did not do as well in 
those countries as they do in Asia-Minor, 
which country has continued to monopolize 
the fig trade. One of the very varieties 
cultivated in the country around Smyrna , 
goes there under the name of "Date, "from 
its unsurpassed sweetness; it is the same 
that is found iu our collection of figs under 
that name. It seems to us that the name 
"Smyrna," used in the singular, too, will 
bring confusion in our fig nomenclature; 
and at this early stage of the great fig ex- 
citement, it would be well to call by its 
own name, whether Turkish or American- 
ized, those very varieiies whose dried prod- 
ucts constitute the Smyrna fig of commerce, 
and which havebeen or are to be introduced 
in this State. 
Our so-called three types of the Smyrna 
fig. Date, Marseillaise and Blanqnette, have 
never fruited yet on our place, though 
having imported the trees from the south of 
France six years ago. So far, as soon as 
the figs attain the size of an acorn, they 
drop off. This defect in our types, lead us 
to believe that these types are genuine; but 
as we do not make a specialty in figs, we 
would like to have some of our customers 
to test those three fine varieties of the White , 
Drying fig of Smyrna. 
l- MULBERRIES. 
Noir of Spain, or Ever-Bearing Black 
Mulberry. — Fruit very large, sweet; most 
dehcious flavor; very juicy. This variety, 
introduced by us into California, is acknowl- 
edged as being the very best of the Black 
Mulberry family. Its growth is slow, but it 
grows and thrives in any kind of soil and at 
any exposure. The Noir of Spain blossoms 
out so late in the spring that it is never in - 
jured by frosts. From the time the berrie s 
commence to ripen (#uly), it keeps on 
bearing until October. 
Russian. — A kind of Black Mulberry 
much talked about these late years; said to 
do well in the Northern States, but greatly 
inferior for its fruit to the Noir of Spain. 
V QUINCES. 
Constantinople.— The largest quince 
known; bright golden yellow; very pro- 
vductive. The boss quince. 
Portugal. — Very large; much esteemed. 
Very productive. 
/ MEDLARS. 
Medlar monstrous. —The largest of 
Medlars; very productive. When picked 
from the tree, the fruit is very harsh and 
astringent, like the Persimmon and Sorbus, 
but through the winter it gets mellow, and 
is then really palatable. Ripens in January. 
The Medlar, or Mespilus Germauioa, is 
a very pretty tree; fine foliage and large 
blossoms, the latter coming out so late that 
they are never nipped by frost. The Medlar 
