CAUTION! 
We would caiitiou our pntrous agaiust buying from agents purporting to be 
ours, as we have no agents whatever throughout the State for the sale of our valu- 
able kinds of Nut and Fruit Trees, such as "Second Generation" Proeparturiens, 
Cluster and other rare sorts of Walnuts, Chestnuts, Prunes and other Fruits. 
Also beware of fraud, and don't you get common and worthless kinds of English 
Walnuts for Proeparturiens, Chister and other choice sorts iutroduced by us into 
California and the United States; also common varieties of Prunes for such as we 
advertise. 
TERMS. 
Our terms are invariably cash (and we intend to stick to that rule, not having 
a stock large enough to warrant us in making credits for any amounts to anybody). 
Eemittances may be made, according to the amount of orders, by Expre.ss or Postal 
Money Orders, liegistered Letters. Bank Drafts and Express. Very small amounts 
(50 cents to $1.0u) can be sent in postage stamps of two and five cents. 
"BARREN HILL." 
Much surprise has been manifested by a great many people at the strange and 
plain name given to our popular and well-known nurseries, ''Barren Hill " The 
tine system of roots and healihfuluess of all trees and plants, as grown upon our 
so-called "Barren Hill," have intensified still more deeply the surprise of all, and 
well could (hey exclaim: "What's in a name! " Well, we couldn't help it if our 
place, before we made of it the beautiful spot that it is to-day, and one of the best 
cultivated pieces of land in Northern California, wa.s nothing but a rough, barren, 
dismal-looking place, sprinkled all over with a bountiful supply of Pine and Cedar 
stumps, and huge boulders and rocks, and with only six to eight inches of rather 
poor soil on the top of hard, yellow clay, mixed, here and there, with disintegrated 
granite, from all of which the hill derived its "realistic" if not poetical name of 
"Barren." We couldn't help it, neither, if of necessity we had to settle upon this 
dismal-looking place rather than look around for better laud that we had been un- 
able to purchase; and well may we say to-day that we are proud of this barren hill 
of ours. Our experiment has demonstrated, too, what industry and perseverance 
may accomplish on some of the poorest mountain land of our great State. "Thor.- 
ough cultivation " of the soil is the whole secret of our success; and from the fact 
that our trees owe their splendid system ol roots, vitality and healthfuluess to 
"thorough culture," and not to rich moist soil, or well manured ground and inten- 
sive irrigation, is another guarantee given our patrons, either from a warm or cold 
climate, with poor or rich ground, as to the succossful transplanting of such trees 
to their respective parts of the country. 
Our trees, besides being ivell provided with a fine-system of roots — and good 
roots imply good health— are entirely frtt of ittsect pests, scales, spiders and Phyllox- 
era being unknown at Barren Hill's altitude— 2,GuO feet above the level of the sea. 
Our rooted grape cuttings are from cuttings planted upright in small ditches, 
18 to 24 inches apart, and have, therefore, the whole system of roots right at the 
hutls, where it should always be. 
