8 FMI- TROPIC CA LI FOUNT A. 
have 80 an experts who could tell if any jcessfully shipped to nil parts of the world 
foreign substance had been introduced! Your Brother 
into the wine, and one who was able ' HnRv.it 
tell the win©, what thi 
soil lacked to produce the best results.j (.Mrus Fair March 1 >ih, by <.rge M i,l .. r 
who becomes j of Pasadena, and after Wing on exhibition 
^jfor more than a week worn chipped to Ida 
ithor in New York, who sends the above 
ight be said farther that the 
oranges were very poorly packed, they 
were quit loose in the barrel, wich probably 
accounts for the few rotten one*. Kn. 
tonic to the 
digusted with the endless vigilance 
unsuccessful combats with the enemies |, 
subject tu all fruit growing, when in the |,. llt . r 
discussions lie learns the simple remedies 
which have produced the line display rtf 
beautiful fruir. present© l to his view lb- 
returns homo with new impulses, and at 
the next Fair will be it strong ooinpeumr, 
and the good done cannot be overestimated. 
To the hard working man it is a gn at 
of Southern California, will roan a rich h 
rest, and at a much earlier data, than th. 
who gr> farther into the interior and n|. 
L year twice as many will be plan 
THE BEST PEiCHEI FOR CANNING 
0R4B6ES IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
, , , - A gentleman writ 
*■** .>" .. VS I in, tu, 
draughts of pleasure, enabling hirn to bear 
the toils ami burdens of the dav inure 1 
readily, and to his wife, who has the 
old duties to perform dav after day, year•' hui'H to tin 
M Hi,, ITiinr I. ,U .1 I i rf. i .. I lO 1 .1 I ..,.1 ' 1 . . 
in J.ns Angelea ware just aplemlnl 
dear through, and I have some 
how tong they will km 
•arlv all the way home, 
, i-'*’* • tur.T would all the way if I had 
l he new sights afford many and many a , u , r t , k „„ out ... many i.tj. t» ,|„,w 
g 1 ®***" thnuHhtandconvsrwth n ; . „ | 
(or Mm mill? .lav* wl.ir-l. are t. • r-,.iu.. It > ^ 
after year, 
perfect “(rod send.” 
limb* 
od 1 think they w 
my, of l.<m Angeles, h 
short artiide to which 
I as to 1 hi»■* who eontemr 
ich«:rchard during the «• 
' Superintendent of the r, 
«t, Mr. J. J, Umum, M 
i one tint* Jiupem. 
|(late and San Jo 
I and more recentL 
| • '.nnery. Thia is 
wen* (ho dav you gate them to 
the »’mIi of March. Wien 
for llio long days which arc tu come. It 
hardly necessary to say that I he man of 
business who has iio moment to spare, , lilu uri1 ,, ,„ (r 
requires just such a Combination to prevent 1 iiL^'b^n’pb’kvd i -r 
the overtaxed brain from wlaemw h.m ... -n {hp , i, nill£ ,, ir ,| H . ra h 
v lha 
the overtaxed brain from placing him 
untimely grave. 
Entertainments of this kind are not fre 
_ oiTtake 
unsiderafion the length of lone they 
and 
, no n 
• depnrt- 
He has had 
mesa, being «t 
r great 
intend 
knocking around nv crywhvrr, I think 
... , settles the question about shipping ..rang.- 
t uwrt rnougfc, .nil somenme* B> nraHj ..,onr Win. m. m .. 
patronized u* to he a source of I.-* to 'them 
ihoai, who tiix thrmodm lo .!„■!, mont |„, ,„ d 
tn maljr item, pi«.«*ot ..... pr..hl. 1,1. .. .... 
1 lie talons of the eagle of the alnoghtr Florida nranovs •’ 
dollar are fastened upon the soul* of »>>; r. 
many of our people that they will be con 
sinned body and soul unless more time is 
taken for just such recreations. Therefore 
publish it broadoMt, that a good tints may ... 
G.. „„i r ic.„„o.,T.ii";L- ' 
shall go together, thereby giving to fruit | 
culture such un impetus as it has never had 
before. Yours truly, 
C»Bo. 0. Swan. 
Han Diri/n, Cat. 
THE APRICOT. 
-•antes I.ynn, nf Artiuti 
THE KEEPING QUALITIES 0T OUR 
ORANGES. 
ild from on. 
... ... _ .. the send 
toil dollar* worth of Iruit this year; aai. 
tree, the Early Knytl variety, brought hin: 
ight dollars last year. Who mvi that I hi 
apricot business will n.w pay r.nar thr 
|coast? It has been lit 1.1 by some that apn 
i rot culture Would Uilt pay near the Win 
j but this report from Artasia, only a few 
J miles inland, and others which have come 
hearing of late, prove ill 
r' 
your frutt: Among cling atm_.. 
H- alh ('ling, Lemon ( lu.g and t.b-ldrn 
(J.ng. Thia last, which is used extensively 
in the Saersinrnto Valley, .« a very Urge 
peach, and ia the best. Fur free stone 
ptschw, tlwt Crawfords, both Early and 
Lsle, are considered aupenor to all others. 
'ding and free, that are nearly as gooff on 
the kinds enumerated above, and any peach 
-d good rtayor, large »i*«, firtu flesh, Jt». 
ton* yellow «ir whit.v color, and not .adored 
differently near the pit, will 5 m» grant far 
caofling purposes. 
CALIFORNIA PEACHES IN NEW TORI. 
New York, July 2*—The A'rvniwg P-rt 
first lot of peaches ever brought from Cali- 
thrivt. fully ns well near tin 
I >|p ... at... h.II.w. 
; apr.v 
land valleys, 
APRICOTS IN VENTURA. 
Nkw York, May ifi*, iShl 
Iikah Gboruk:—T he barrel of orange* 
wliieli you shipped to me on March X'oth 
have arrived here to day. Owing to delays | ),,. 
caused by tin* recent llood* m il.o west, ii..-' 
fruit has bup.n *iriy-a)H ff.l) <fny» coming ' but in 
here. (If enurro I expect.nl t*> find the | tint. <>| tl 
orange* all roll till after »uch an .'x.-fqit'o.ial ■[•),,, 
long journey, but I was agreeably surprised ’ t (it« ora 
to find that out of the JVii oranges wlnoli! near the 
the barrel otmlaiti. d only 1« were partly j r.,., vail, 
decayed. 1 carefully examined the fruit I .tpe-u before it 
in Urn presence of several gt>ntl«m*n wh.ijmakc it prolitah 
Can ttielify tn tlit* itleive, ') ha fruit JlMN a j here, near the c-MM, wh.*r 
very fine llttvnr, ami many of uur Mends l.recex render Urn ,-lm.alv v 
and others to whom I have given souie ..fj,, om „ s |„, v | v , 
the otanges, have pronounceil them the j when ripe, more rich and j-nev 
Iniest that, they have ever tasted. I ws* the fruits the m.-si, fn-e \ 
inyutlf muchourprisad to see such firm large ' | j,.. tI ,... „ | )n , 
fruit. A* lu the. •‘koepiug qualities'’ of! grower, *nd uithiit four ye*" 
California orange*, 1 am ccmviuoad from j ty ^,.» r . \\ „ ttrmlv b. le v. 
this vxpBrineut that your fruit can bo sue- j plant Hj.rtod orehard* i» the 
Ventura Stgual ■« 
in California ap 
few hie they gin 
r.ev.l, nullity the *. 
. I 
In tint mo 
the heat pi 
■ upon* il'i* mark 
' 1st lory rates. 
Und cond 
Iti*>n had apfwared 
et ami w 
It is that. 
ere selling at satia- 
ught by New York 
,, t., d.i with the | 
" 
• |*° m " "ul 
i: known that fri 
tits mil 
kveplaMone 
1 1»ear than another. It 
.iv u* 1 , 1 *. L.«f lltu inllinHa 
ia too scam yet to 
•Mitme the ini 
portanc« 
Q f “hlcnlXtriiai 
Lear an plum 1 
but the trade ha* 
ipmvwd suIBctv 
ntly perl 
Itebie this 
n. t profits up., 
in a car 
nf praches, holding 
1 too crates, ia 
fifiOO, wl 
Igood ci.ndiUuti 
Arttlit. fraiirbt 
ill.UNI. , 
; of the bud being 
ws the fruit I 
fruit drier; bu 
ud pear, .a I c 
there being but 
in iranso A ba 
y eonta a box, ov 
fruit to Kngls 
tiee3 v 
Ail Cabf n 
canneries, to w 
