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SEMI- TRO VIC i '• 111 FORMA . 
horticulture. 
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY AT THE 
LOS ANGELES EXPOSITION. 
B» Ft Smttm. 
San Bernardino cnuuty ie silggeetivo of 
xnowv mountains, fwnstttionnl rail" «y tloor* 
tlmmgh tli ' 1 cloud-belted Kif-iTis, inch lull¬ 
ing valley#, so mow but discm limiting gri?- 
zIiph. the elegant dar-r the mure elegant 
anlulopa, the lmmommlv hunied mountain 
sheep thul ix more tiifln sheep; grand 
pineries, sow mills, gold mine*, statuary 
nmi'bls, lin mines, Lor. springs, hot will* 
streams, artesian fountains in the second 
story; the Santa Ann river. Commodore 
Wnguor, aheap walk*. cattle ranges, 
apiaries, alfalfa, orange groves, corn 
fields, fig lines, liar Icy field*, lime trees, 
apple orchards, lemon trees, peach or¬ 
chards, pepper trees, apricot orchards, 
bogs, wine, pears, raisins, aJmiiurl-, nppla- 
oider, peace, plenty, and progress, 
THE DISl'LA V Oil A IT I. n.S, 
Mr*. Glen, of Cajon Pass, exhibited, 
among other varieties, a ml npph, one foot 
and two inches in girth; a Pippin, 12j : 
inchaa. 
Peter A Forsoo, whose orchard is 8,600 
feet above sen level, exhibited a Rhode 
Island Greening, 14 Indies in girth; a 
Baldwin, 12j inches; ii Limbi rt wig, Ilf 
inches; a Yellow Bid If? Fleur, 12| niches; 
Sp!ta<nl>erg, 11 , incite*; M Uoxbury 
Russet, 11 indies; a White Winter Pern 
main, I2j, indies; u Gloria Muinli, lSf 
inches; n Forsce seedling, large and very 
*w. et; the Tuljidnieken, Idj indie#. Mr. 
1 ' *iId-cps apples sound through the 
winter and until May. 
.James Boyd exhibited the products of 
In- farm at Riverside, aniotig which were 
\dlnw Newtown Pippins, Rome Realities, 
Nii.lcijacka, Raid wins, and Spitwnbtrgft. 
Mr. Boyd keeps apples until April. 
1EAI18, PEACHES, AX [I Fil ls. 
James Boyd, .if Rivei-mb-, exhibited a 
Wuilei Ndlis Rear, II inches m girth; 
also cling peaches and luscious tigs. 
PiUEn PUCttT*. 
H, A. Westbrook, of Riverside, ex¬ 
hibited dried figs, almost, if not (.min, 
mpml to llm best imported; ale., impeded 
peach. -, an merchantable in appearance 
ami quality a* the best .if Mi* Outton-bdt. 
Mi-,. Iv p. Murphy, of Itir. rmdo. had 
• vidently exemsad can- and -kill upon , a 
o* ll* nt peacho. t.. begin with, in order to 
the prwductiou of till choice dilfcd fruit I 
exhil-iU'd by tout hwly. 
JumeaB'iydfxbibitod apple*, thoiougl.lv ! 
lino iu the sun m oii«d»y; also u., peeled 
p- ach. -, very sweet, nun dried, ami > « t ' 
tuigl.t enough to pass for peachesdiled'l.v 
ih< Aide., proem-, Fhea and fermentation 
tooxlow to mak. any tm-loiy to ( , l „„ 1 | l 
... •».. i/totoJiSi 
iutJe ui 'ivsiCcuUuji. 
Jennie and Jobnie Boyd, children of 
Mr. James ltovd, exhibited dried figs 
apple* nnd poaches, greatly hi the credit 
of Riverside young America 
I). H Burnham, of Riverside, hand¬ 
somely illustrated Mm increasing interest 
in the hitherto backward industry of drying 
figs. 
HXIS1V3. 
If one would keep up with the steadily 
ami rapidly progn -aivc raisin industry of 
California; if be would keep abreast, iu 
point nf information, with tlmse who arc 
best in formed on tho subject of the best 
natural capacities of the Pacific Slop* for 
raisin making, thus far practically ileruon- 
-1 rated; it is sufficient if be attend the 
annual Exposition at Los Angelos, uml 
inspect, the raisin display from Riverside. 
Most of the iriduatm-N n f ponnicutture ad¬ 
vance toward perfection .slowly, a* up an 
iiicbned plane The industry of raisin 
making, as illustrated in the annual ex¬ 
hibit* made by Riverside, has advanced 
toward perfection swiftly, as by upward, 
nutiuiil springs, from level to loftier level. 
Three yrnrs ago Suutliem California wa- 
rntim about liei aihievemenL in the way 
of raisins, for the boat achievement was »u 
inferior dried grape. No wonder, then, 
that now Southern California; that thou¬ 
sand* of vi-itura at the lu*.f Exposition; 
that consumer* from San Diego to Muine; 
all have something in say about tho raisin* of 
Southern California, which have appre¬ 
ciated in quality to an equality with tho 
best imported raisin* While I must 
reserve that Riverside is only one of the 
many place* in Southern California where 
hr*l.-chiK- mi mu*- uie made, 1 rnu»t concede 
that, in the upward leap* toward perfection, 
Riverside ha* bc*en all the time the cham¬ 
pion progressivciat. 
If a pair of professional pugilists had 
buttered each Oll.n m the valley of River¬ 
side. the victor, photographed and en¬ 
graved. would have stiiied out of show 
windows all around the world. Rut a* 
Mm pomneiilluiisl* of Riv*r*ide, without 
bruising any person, have merely battered 
out of tin- axil mi Gciiiioiuic victory, in 
dusli mllv of nuiional importance, there mv 
iHipbutiiafordiatviliutir.il I will pu»« the 
■ main i InimpioiiH by, simply adding ihut 
H A W v-lhi'ouk i i liil.iiled llo-iri* so bilge, 
so pulpy, soft ami luscious, that or-lera to 
Malaga are out of order; that (3 l> 
Dark-ton exhibit! .1 mtrin* so vei v attractive 
in lively way, especially in tin: freidi|U'->* of 
aroma, tho untilrulne** of uavor utu) tlm 
brilliancy of Idocm. that a perfectly sum 
liiiiunuug-l.ird might be templed to vibrate 
between Ml* bluOlilillg hoUcyNUcklc uml 
the tdooiii on the raisin; thi.l A ,J J W o- 
good exhibited raisin* ul I87 h, loo good lu 
b. impair*.] ly the l»pM! of u lour, uml lou 
good lo escape iniivi ri.al iiduiirulion. 
A S, White, of Riverside, exhibited 
raisins of Hie Gordo Blanco grape. Al¬ 
though it m iiiaintaimid by *om> that, tlie 
diflv-reiice between tin men., made ,,f the 
Gordo Rhine., and ol mini* other nnieiics 
licttor eoucealing their steins than any 
other rnriely. If this bo tho rule, it in not 
an insignificant difforenon. 
It would extend this article beyond 
roiwormbb* limits to given detailed account 
of nit the raisin displays from Riverside. I 
will simply add that any committee of 
awnixl must possess unusual power* of 
discrimination who could uenmitcly *uy 
precisely where the palm for greatest 
mint belonged among Mm displays from 
'Riverside, miduiling not only tlu.se men¬ 
tioned already, but the imperil displays of 
itiumi* made in Mis. A L Kiistumu. by 
Judge E. J Brown (of the crojis of 1878 
and 18711), by Sbugurt and Waite, by 
James Boyd, by A. F, Combs, and bv 
E. H Holmes." The mitabln uniformity 
of Mm numerous raisin displays by River* 
side im owing to the rigmoux system of 
inspectioQ enforced by the Fruit (jrowers’ 
Association of Riversido. 1 predict that 
the principal progress of the Riverside 
raisin industry for 1880 will consist in the 
establishment of almost absolute uni¬ 
formity' throughout the mime class of 
imain mniiutaeUiro, not so much on tic- 
count of any great room for improvement 
in the matter of uniformity, as iu llio luck 
of room for improvement in other respects. 
TAWU l>HAVES. 
The table grapes exhibited by James 
Roy il would have been a great show out¬ 
ride of California. One of his Muscats of 
Alexandria measured three inches in girth. 
I lie notable conjunction in t he Riversido 
table grapes of great size, solidity of pulp, 
intenseMvcetni->s, berries densely crowded, 
absence of interstices or broken contact of 
grape with grape, avoirdupoinc of the 
bunch, and. withal, invariable and perfect 
freedom from rot, speck, softening or tho 
slightest trace of mildew, is owing to llm 
other conjunction at, Riverside of liberal 
irrigation, generous soil, high atmospheric 
Umiperat-im 1 and an extremely dry at* 
Biosphere. These two correlated sets of 
conjunctions arc not peculiar to Riverside. 
They are imputable M> other loculitie* in 
Southern (liilifornia where vineyards have 
been citnblishfd. With the development 
of iheubiin hint, partially ooiiccftlod, tnougli 
ucommncullv availabl. water n-Mmr.'es of 
tjiiuthorn California, llm two sets of con¬ 
junction* may be. togrl her, expanded over 
vnxt urea* The colnbiiialinii of llm facts, 
in the ease of the Riv*i*mlc display of 
iable grape*, imtriiiid.r.il Calilornmn. 
It .lid uuioi|j*h the . i - 1 1 111 from tie East., 
"'bo, upon hi* «ft inn to the fur Fust, will 
• ••riti 1 iii* observation?' | l( incieduloits 
honn lolk for ll.ei (ho meagrely limned 
calinvba vim- i-oiiemi ywn fanliu-lie with 
papm liiigM, that bug il.n ungathornl grown 
• bi-ten,, t,, mi Vo them from mildew. 
Wise. 
?“■ { rn, «r. ,,f the* Mill Creek Zan 
"xlobited port wine, mud., of thoroug 
upc Mission grapes, of the vndageof Is 
'wilmul tlm addition of hramlv or «.t 
.-.iMgmfieunt, ye, 1 f„u m l ^ oihibit , , 
Jrianoo ruikiua otluWUd by Mr Wh.te, didu-d fuvombia tommlb W,n^, ' ' 
