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SEMl-TROPTC CALIFORNIA. 
THE BEST ORANGE. 
G1R0UNG FOR BARREN TREES. 
The grout point for out horticulturist to 
keep in view is, to produce none but the 
bmtt fruit. The market is »t present glutted 
with small, sour, thick-skinned oranges, 
end tho indications are that hereafter such ^ jim imi 
fruit will rut pay to raise. Now, during j j.; H »tern horticulturist says he ha* iiiducn 
the past two years fairs lmve been hpb.l at' bearing in Irers of Lawrence Fear and 
Sacramento, Las Angelo* and Riverside, Winter Nelia a t » very early age,_ and 
and men long in tb» fruit bttMJHtss ha 
Not a single treo has ever been injured 
by girdling, so far as we can learn, even 
when rings of bark many inches wide, have 
been taken off, hut usually they are about 
a quarter of an inch wide. The proper 
iperation ia June. An 
carefully and critically examined every va¬ 
riety of budded orange produced in f.di- 
fornia. In every instance whet' the 
Washington navel has been entered it has 
won the laurels over all the competitors, 
and must b« pronounced the bwrt orange 
at present known. Its merit* iwv flint it it? 
very aweet, thin skinned, of good xi;-e and 
shape, and full of juice. 
Wo claim that it will poy every mange- 
grower in Southern California to procure 
uitflfi of llic* Washington navel, even at an 
increased co»L Those who depend wholly 
upon the old varieties may have the uinrti- 
ficstiun of finding their fruit less valuable 
than That of their mw.j sagieiou* neigh¬ 
bors. Wb certainly would advocate plant¬ 
ing Several varieties of twinge trees, but 
would decidedly recommend the VWhing 
ton navel as a most desirable tree. 
Mr, J. H. Dobbins, of Sau Gabriel, has a 
stock of 800 trees nf the Washington navel 
variety, and any of our reader* who may 
desire to secure buds, can obtain them by 
applying Marly to him. It if unnec- -»tm 
for us to aay that Mr. Dobbin*' trees an 
*11 in prime condition. 
THE MARKET FOR REACHES. 
Our Atlantic coast exchanges come t<< 
us daily full of dismal account* of the *al 
most total failure of the peach crop, The 
magnitude of the business in this ddiciou-, 
fruit in the States of New Jersey, I>cla WHre 
and Maryland may be estimated when it i- 
stated that over a million people depend 
largely upon it for their support. So f tt , 
as we can loam, the peach orchards nf 
fioMbcn, Califurni. «. loatag «.ll, „,.j 
U IB likely that our canning firms and dry 
mg tstsbusutnenu will be called u , l0n , 0 
supply a portion of the dtfic ienc. caused 
bv the great failure in the Ktstcrn St«il-a. 
lh« pnon of ueaohcM. •boold rel<> high thi. 
*ea.«jn, and tfaoao who h»v, ,, looted l a , R , 
orchard, will get rufurns thi., year that they 
nintod upon. 
trad scarce ly <; 
Tan Florida 7 uim <u,J jy w sa 
"Und „„l u, l»» t.ul 
grove, acli* for from $60 to $300 ttOI 
f Jail forma orange land is 4 I! lit tb live 
and is yet cheap at pri w * aH kvd 
has *ome now full of fruit which otherwise 
would riot have shown their quality fv 
ninny year*. A Green I’ippin tree, a foot 
through, which had not borne a peck of 
fruit in ten years, has been cured of its 
barren hnhit by tin: same .simple mean*. 
Girdling Bt'craa especially applicable to 
am-h trees as a check to their tendency to 
continual growth of wood. To be harm¬ 
less, the removed bark must ho replaced 
by a new protective covering in the same 
vouaon. 
THE PROFITS OF GRAPE CULTURE. 
A vineyard will commence bearing three 
years nftrr setting out. The yield will be 
far above expense# of cultivation and 
harvesting. At five years aid a vineyard 
will yield from four to six tons of fruit per 
acre. Grapes, last year, sold at the 
vineyard for from P10 to >30 per ton, ac¬ 
cording to quality. Old vineyards, say at 
ten years, will yield from seven to thirteen 
tons of fruit, There are in California five 
millions acres of lands which can be ob¬ 
tained at low figures and upon easy terms 
as t. payments, say from Hu to iib per 
acre, These lands are located in the foot¬ 
hills oT California, both north and south, 
and are the best grape lnndo in tin; State. 
Many of those lands in the middle and 
northern portion of California are con¬ 
tiguous to water ditches, for mining pur- 
pnsns, This water could be purchased For 
irrigation purposes at reasonable rates in 
many localities, thus making grape culture 
a certainty. To go into the business re¬ 
quired but a small capital, say from *1,000 
tu >0,000, Other portions of tho foothill 
region* will grow the vine without trrign- 
Hon, and the grape ot such sections *s 
superior fur wine making- A vineyard. 
»>tcr it cominemu.* to | lf . ur fruit, will nun 
tiinui fur fifty yearj, if properly cultivated, 
rh. ic is on business that will puy ns well 
bn the money and labor invested as grape 
culture- no burin*'** equal to it fur aouifurt 
and Inn I lb. Thu viiioyardiat of the prat in it 
nine has before him the experiment* 0 f 
centuries lur guidance «i( foreign countries, 
ami therefore failure in this State is simply 
out of tie, question. The demand for Uf- 
ifurniM wines «ud raisins will steadily in 
ercasir for many year* to come, and the 
prices writ prove remunerative for good 
articles, What a held is here open tu yo U n K 
men of mdu.try and energy, thousands of 
THE NEW FRUIT DRYING ASSOCIATION. 
In another column appears the prospectus 
jam! announcement of the re-opening of 
I the Alden Fruit Drying Works across the 
I river. The enterprise is now in the hands 
of some of the leading business men of 
thi- city, and will, we belie vs, give sntis- 
ftuition in every respect. In the June 
number we shall publish a full account of 
tho institution and it* working*. 
Ignorant cultivator* frequently weaken 
tho energies of young trees, and cause 
them to grow up’ with lean and slender 
Stems by injudiciously trimming off the 
young shoots, fly taking off these shoots 
the tree is deprived of nil the leaves which 
elaborate the sap for the growing stem 
which ia soon exhibited by it* slender in¬ 
crease. In planting the peach, however, 
ol one year’* growth these side shoot* 
should be removed, leaving the naked stem, 
they are a forced and adventitious 
growth from the vigor given to a single 
Mid, anil the buds funned on the stem are 
tho ones to furnish the top for tho current 
year. The top of the young peach tree 
should be lopped from three to three atida- 
halt foet from tho ground on setting. The 
development of the budson the atom will 
then give you a beautiful and healthy head. 
A Hartford young man boarded a horse 
car the other day with a bunch of throe 
One was white, one green, and one 
of a delicate flesh colored tint. These flow¬ 
er? in trim ted the attention of the pa.-vsen- 
gers, both ladies Htid gentlemen. One lady 
marked that *ht* had seen the buds of the 
green lose, and another Baid she had seen 
th>' rose itself, but khc had never seen any 
•0 perfect and lovely us this one. Thellcsh- 
<p»lored one was also commented on and 
praised. Finally tho young man volun¬ 
teered the information that nil were white 
ni the morning, and that the coloring was 
dime by putting the stem of one into green 
ink, and tho other into red ink. Although 
the loaves were beautifully colored, tho 
tsqloring would not rqb off, but it msemed 
a* if nature had done the work. It only 
required ton minute* to change the color. 
Exeh'iugr, 
I'ii r. strawberry, among fruits, is more 
Him the rose among flowers. I lov'tj it, | 
have .i fondness for the broad leaves that 
rlely the frosty breath of winter, f., r tin- 
pure white bloshiiius that oheur us lirat in 
*prmg, and hr the fruit that breathes tin- 
may cmiBtruct 
Flow 
hud 
j man 
plant* that succeed w.,11 n, the 
umuc—tJogomus, cnmellias, ferim, also G«r 
i Knglish ivies. 
perfume of Paradise, Mai.. 
•Icanishipa and railroads, disembowel the 
earth for ores, measure the mountain* of 
we- muon and make his voice heard um-osn 
old oorali, l>ui Ood oloneo.i, ,„„t„ » 
berry,— Itomumt. 
Wiiknlvku a true is transplanted, many 
Of the roots arc injured—a part destroyed, 
loose tfiat remain when set out in a new 
place an. m no condition to food the plant 
“f It was fed previous to removal. Iluncc 
«h. top must bo cut back to restore the 
•qinltbrium. 
