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Ijoriiqnliure. 
HORTICULTURIST. 
rilllli Sr.Mi-Tiinric California,, when orig- 
I math Kt.nrlciJ, ilid not. intern] to have 
any tiling to >lo with ngrieiilluro or horti¬ 
culture, lint n fori'K of i-nvuiii-iniic'-s roiii 
in is ii* to change our original intention. 
WC will iiiiiki* (111- Svwt-'l ni.irto Citn.ui'ti 
• I"- organ of tlit* 140inuitoriil iirul horti¬ 
cultural people of Siuni-Trupio California, 
I mploying the best tol«-nt in I in- oouiitry, 
mid thoroughly illustrating nil ntibjaotH. 
H the people want, such n paper, Huy 
can make it. ninidfe«t In sending the price 
of enbacriptiou to iin. 
NOTES ON VINICULTURE. 
from in tides by F. J. Hose, in a local 
paper, wo cull the following inti resting 
ileiuti: 
A level piece of huul H-bonI• I he selected, 
us it better retains moisture, ami tho soil 
will not lie washed out by irrigation a* on 
a hillside. If a slope is used, let it, be a 
northern rather than southern, fur the 
warm climate renders an excess of snmdiiue 
II nnecessary, and {-rupee may have until 
December to ripen, if tiny do not ripen 
earlier. 
most snit u'Lt sou,. 
Some diversity of opinion sepiu i to exist 
on this point. Different soils are required 
by ditlerent varieties of grupcH. Hume 
general facts arc sub- to aucupt, for nil. A 
tindv divided soil ih easily worked and will 
absorb and retain niobium. It is better 
adapted, therefore, to all productions re- 
ijniiin^ cultivation, Grape-vine* require 
cultivation, of course, especial!} for the 
first three yearn after plan tiny. They 
should la- carefully rufUivated during the 
entire summer the tiist .mar, witliur witli- 
""I i> 1 igation. Gram and weeds should bo 
most carefully excluded, 
now to pi. a si Pirruvns. 
riiints looted ill nursery the first year 
can lie more easily taken cure of, watered 
and made to grow , and can bn transplanted 
With M '"“U )»*’r cent, of Idas Ou the 
other hand, if planted at once in viutyard, 
lliere is a ^uin m size, the latter having , lH 
much iih nil niimths the advantage ■>! (]■«■ 
former. 'Clio expi-imo* are porhujci h it.. 
pluming in niu-Mi} Vet. all thin 
coimidernd, it is thought last to plant at 
om-e 111 vineyard, Hinhutf the plants not 
more than twelve flftaoti inel.i deep 
Deeper planting i, uitliguud n usotis coil 
d I limed, and II • lowli.ir IH prnfiu.d to „ 
apatl.i to plant with. Tho koi I must |» 
enn fulb pr, . .. ,| alouud the plalit, bum 
tlm m rv bottom upward Tlm plant- 
should la milked in wulei 11 fey, dill H |„ 
foie plant!np- Hiv feat each way is a good 
distance upto I foi vines for wine making 
for rue-m culture they should b. widm' 
apart. 
can ‘Hum. a m lireiw\ wmiun irum,vtii>}» ? 
’I Ills ran be answered with n rluildv y,. y 
V soil which with rain will grow iiuy tluu * 
will .without irrigation, support grape-vines 
and produce prop. a. An ilistnnce is given, 
in the writer's owu experience of twontv 
acres, above the irrigation ditch, on dry 
«ml, now oovered with vinos of ten ycaiii' 
growth, and producing fair crops since the 
second year. The varieties hen receiving 
so hovi re and Conclusive a test, are t.he 
Hlaoe Klba, y'liifamb l and Burger. Water 
is b-s nucesBarj during (lie first, two vears 
than when tin* vine is heavily leafed and 
limning, Thorough cultivation is the main 
I consideration. 
ih iiiiuoATT/m nr,si iHcjiai. ? 
fdn tho other hand, il is of coil me nh- 
vioiiH that the growth of any plant will bn 
increased by tho proper application of 
water. During a dry Konnmi irrigation will 
Insure a crop which otherwise would be a 
| failure. Hut it should ho judiciously ap¬ 
plied; for nn excess of water tniike* tlm 
grape watery, insipid, nod inferior for wine. 
I'W the firrt few yearn of grow th irrigation 
IH or III. utility; after that, it is well to be 
within reach of the ditch. 
GRAPE SHOT. 
FROM 1,119 A X O K L E H . 
bos Angeles county is a vast, vineyard. 
'Flic At Lite .Muscat ih tho grape fin mi¬ 
ni ns. 
, Tlm First wine was shipped from thin 
county in 1849, 
There me now 5,172,000 bearing vine* 
in I, or Angeles county; in tlm l argo vine, 
yards, anil 1,900,1100 planted during the 
present winter. 
was 
Our wine yield from a half crop of grapes 
ns last yeai (1K79) 1,079,000 gallons. 
I Im Friiuciseau Fathers nmmifuclured 
wine at Sfln Gabriel one hundred years 
ag". 
I lie .Mission is tlm popular standard 
grape —sweet, juicy, delicious. 
1,. . ItoHO, of Hunli v Slope, near San 
fiiibni I, manufactured bed year 5,1 OO.OOti 
pounds of grapes into wine and btaiidv 
Since tlm niiiis have BKHimd lull eiopM, 
a} mid of 2,2nO,0U0 gallons of wire and 
brandy is expected for this veal’. 
'Ih. Rninliup. Bluilc Klim, /.infumbl, 
I'lfift M it J v/jifciio Im v «j Viimmi mici’f *full> 
cultivabd by unr Is-st grape grow cm, 
, K, .1, Hose lifts Hu. nniflt ri.iuploli- win. 
' u"inufucLfirv u, tlm Duiu d Stales, b.-,e- 
abb- to.cumcil. daily '2110,0011 pounds of 
giii).eH iulri wine and In and v 
Siualler iiniimrs caii disprum of iloii 
e.r.pK lo large w I lie lull I. eiUeOe piofitnbl} 
fliiili they can matmta.-lni- tlmir i-wnwiio 
K, •! lim-e I,Iih 600,0(10 luining Mills, 
He bn.(is,| vineyard in the country. 
Koe Align b'S L'llllflty i'tl'-diuiil toll. .-Hill/ 
on*i ol (lie redo (, a., ,| ,, Mmv 
mosl bumliful gaitlei.u on the fae. of tin 
glllbu. 
J'm«, Tliere js no fruit known which 
emi be piopngatcd so easily, mid that wdl 
pioduei hug.a I.-lilts in so burl a time 
iih t\w li(; V bnitich m •Milling jiluci.l in 
the ground any time m I lux inontli is e. r 
tain lo grow, and will) any sort of enie 
will prillluee a go,,.I . n.p tlii third o-ur, 
LOS ANGELES PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL 
INSTITUTIONS. 
TXTH 11 ' 1 ’ K-.s Ang. I.-s 1«. of , ,eeJ- 
? y l* , nt public ^e|i -,b n nd m ue-ur- 
pas-. d in this resja, » by ar/j. city in rim 
I fh itr, outside of the metropolis, its pnv.it*> 
j hcIiouIh arc <*pmlly nmntonou*; «*, ! if 
; ,l "? '’'Jf * ill ue t,. in* r* . e in le.pulartti 
i rapidly ill III*- future im tin > hai. : in U,e 
j pa*t, we may justly hop* that * r* hug 
Jjiiis Angel* , may la-eotiie a i-r> ,d educa¬ 
tional center. 
LO» AWUEI n AC41.1MT.' 
'Hu- Los Ang(cl» i Acadet iT war org-an- 
i/i d III 1870, n- a piirale k. 1 .„,| In | , 
O. H I r.-nubi and wife, but at lb. w 
j Bion of Ihe M< thodi- 1 f.infer* i, •, l,. 11 . ,t 
y ear, il wax adopted u* tFu-.r acL-.ol, and 
i TofirKHnr Frnmbrs w ;» llpl-oinf. .1 I I in 
eipal. Tlm cciui-* *.f vio ls i il 
M»rYniLfh, 
and Hiifllcicnt to me*t the nnlimirv de 
1 rnands made by aonety in geiiiref ii|am 
I the young ladies ami gmiitJuu* n who *1,; li 
go out from tlm institution II,.- t< t* h*rs 
in Hi, -, irioiia departm< ids l, 
reputation for their effieinnev and ability, 
and the institnti.jti has hr crime i faiorite 
with id I clasaea of our eitu« »s. 
RT. VIViK.vr's nii r.tr.K. 
Tlii.A institution is uud* r tlm contr 1 *.f 
the Catholic Church, and the f.ienltv is 
eoBipos.il of t lie Fall.* r« *.f it,, C/.nRriga- 
tion of tlm M iBsiou, It is oj, u tu nil over 
tho ago of ten year*, who are omiimfoBt 
to cuter tlm primary eouo.-, and who corm- 
i with resjji etuble rcMoiuiiir niUtioiu* J 
' "II 10 -'! atudiua end.r.. - I full * tun 
Kngliah and cine Meal lit. 
nr* , m At bo¬ 
on 1 lies, nucieiit and modern Im go . •< > 
and a muoniercial d* p.irlm* uf It is an 
, excellent acliool, and is -limited in a c< n- 
. veuitud and healthy location. 
0VK CT»TI.P-rf 
The Ijoh A iig.-li - Husnu .. ( ,,ij r 0 , 
• hargu **f two ixpeneiecl ;->-i,f!*o 
Mibsis I >| l etni and Julim; tb for 
in 
Il graduate and nub 
I* aelier *>! Hie Wash 
b'ge; (lie latter rill m 
for mom tIran twent> > i-, 
to Is .I*im d fr.nu n tl 
•'•liientiou at* iniali-idabl. 
r-ntly 
dim Businap 
uuUQt and t* 
1 ars. lb. Is 
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