SFMI-TROPIC CALIFORNIA. 
VUitniiltvt. 
TILL THE GOBLET AGAIN. 
Fill Hie goblet again 1 far I cover before 
Felt Uir glow which no* gladdens 01 y bourt to i 
core; 
Let in (trick'— who wonW noi '—«im'C. IlirOuj 
life’s wind round, 
In tho goblet aloun no deocpilon is found. 
1 U«»e tried in its turn all flint life one supply: 
I have limk'il in the beam of a dark rolling rye; 
I have loved!— who has not '—but wind hoart cu 
declare, 
Thai pleasure existed while pa&rinn was there? 
In the days of my youth, when the heart'" in it 
lcvur lake wing, 
—but wind longue 
in rallhtul as thou r 
hut on earth 
dl increase with it* 
I had friends!—wh 
w ill avow 
Thai ft lends, rosy w 
carl of a nvlati 
Iship shifts wi 
mat clmueo: 
Thou grow’ol old!—who does 
wind appear*, 
Whose virtues, like llilue, 
j’ears ? 
Yet ft blest to the utmost that love can bestow. 
Should a rival bow down to our Idol below, 
We #r« jenli>n»!—who's only—thou hast no sue! 
alloy; 
For tho more that enjoy thee, the more we enjoy. 
Then the season of youth und its vanities past, 
For refuge we fly to the guide! nt I us!, 
There we tlnd—do we not?—In (lit flow yf flu 
soul, 
That truth, as of yore, i» confined to the bowl. 
When the box of Pandora wn» open'd on earth, 
Aud Misery's triumph commenced inn Mirth, 
Hope was left— was she not*—but the goblet wo 
And tare not for Unpe, who urn certaiu or bliss, 
Lang life to the grnpel-for when summer is 
The age of our nectar shall gladden our own. 
We must die—who shall not*— May our sins be 
forgiven. 
And Hebe shall never be Idle in heaven 
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THE BEST VARIETY OF GBAPE8. 
This is still an open question, but it does 
seem that by this time experience should 
have solved it. For raisin making un¬ 
questionably, the White Muni-ui »,7d the 
(iordu Blanco arc the proper vanities. All 
arc agreed thus far. but for wine an.I brandy 
purposes the discussion waxes warm and 
. arncM. Some contend that tho foreign 
varieties only should be used—that (Tie 
Mission should be wholly discarded—while 
"* "“e *“ d frtnmn 
ik. not express tbeiiistdvw so cinphaticBily 
I lus variety has been much domed uod 
neglected for several years, but now far u« 
many good qualities as a grower, a 'hearer 
and a producer of wine »„d brandy, wbicb 
the people ere beginning to learn, it is 
coming forward a* a decided favorite. The 
Nl'.Mon grape .a less liable to mildew than 
amt « T k . " Va " Cl ^, '*»■ section, 
and wide other varieties In the mu IU . 
suifei from blight, and mature only H few 
scattering grajiee here aud there, the Mis¬ 
sion will yield prodigiously. As regards 
the attacks of noxious insects, and the lia¬ 
bility to disease ami decay, the Mission is 
the Inst to sutler. True. it. makes a strong 
wine, but give it age, and it will acquire tt 
smoothness which will satisfy tho most re¬ 
fined mate. That it makes a good brandy 
nobody will deny,and for bearing qualities, 
whnt variety, under a similar cultivation, 
will yield as heavily from year to year? 
The grower can depend nri the Mission with 
a certainty of a crop every year, and # 
slight neglect in cultivation, owing to a re¬ 
markable vigor of the vine, does not show 
itself so readily a* in tho foreign varieties 
But while we extol the virtues of this pio¬ 
neer grape, we do not wish to underrate 
some of the tested foreign v arieties. Many 
varieties arc needed in order to meet the 
taste of all. If we were to plant a vino- 
ysrd for wine and brandy, our tirat choice 
would be the Mission; second, Zinfnndid; 
third, Blanc Kibe, and then, for the sake of 
variety, a few oilier kinds, but tho Mission 
would make thu largest part of the vine¬ 
yard. There may be a few readers who 
II shrug the shoulder at this declaration; 
it even so, the time will come when even 
they will wieh they had planted more of 
the Minion. It is a fact ihat'snil and local¬ 
ly have much to do in establishing the 
quality of the grape. The inland valleys 
ud mountain districts produce less to the 
'.re than the lower and coast sections, but 
the wine in the former location ia lighter, 
and, for immediate use, ia perhaps belter 
than in the latter section. However, we 
have evidence from both localities in favor 
of planting largely of tho Mission variety. 
The principal reasons have already been 
stated, namely : a sure and vigorous bearer, 
less liable to attacks by noxious insects than 
any other variety, resists mildew and blight 
better than any other variety, it j 8 the 
hardiest vine we have,and, for all purpose?, 
there is no other variety known that can be 
«o successfully used in as many ways as 
the Mission. 
THE BONANZA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 
It is said that a word fitly spoken will 
bear repeating, therefore we publish below 
y«cent editorial from the Lot AitytUi 
fL r,Ki * r M '* !* !b»™ ill III" ™rii! 
tb. . t „.l of . it, nt. „l,„, i„ the „, wl , —. 
d r»; s '-■» Anp.i.^ b„ v .- 
,forty fo forty Herd, „f ]„.,| ... 
. v.t.iiyar.l? ()„ ,|„ , u „„,^, loll 
ll.dt In, (fraf.o, wouM vi„u bim M| r tlo 
(lorn * 1,5(10 to 12,000 „ VMr . Hut 
.1. > net ,.,-M ,„. r „,5 
v, nu*,f.ii.t i.lrt. b„„„„ 
bint, .t iniirt' higl„r 
Uki.; Is nt, inn.until the third v. u. u,„l 
tin- R n.|,„ vim,. i,; 
IOSI.,1* .,„l„, Sul, linns fsjrly u»t|„ „„ 
tli-y lit. (irsit.iislly fo„., 8I . Thus so 
"> Ha S« Osbrinl Vsllny »l,i„li 
are quite one hundred years old, and that 
aro even now prolific bearers, Mr. W, II. 
Workman last year netted #200 tin acre 
from a portion of his vineyard, which is 
o>cr Bixty years old. Thus the delay and 
inconvenience of waiting aro well repaid, 
io the end. No man, however, should at¬ 
tempt the experiment unless he likes an 
open air life, and haa money enough to see 
the thing through. He should be uble to 
buy hia land and put upon it the necessary 
improvements, with an overplus atiflicient 
to sen him through the probationary period. 
Th« inducements held out bv Los Angelos 
County are, to those who have at least situs]] 
means, and to such the return is large if 
not immediate. There is nothing like it on 
the American continent, or even in Krauce. 
The yield of the grape is something to 
marvel at, ranging from four to, in some 
extreme cases, ten lone to the acre. Last 
year grapes sold for from $20 to #25 a ton, 
9ome very choice grapes going as high as 
#8U to tho ton. Kligiblc lands for vineyards 
can bo bad anywhere for from $15 to #40 
per acre, according to quality and location. 
Right bore ia the genuine bonanza of 
Southern California.” 
CALIFORNIA’S FUTURE WEALTH. 
The following is an extract from the ad¬ 
dress of Lloyd Tevis, President of Wells, 
Fargo & Company, before the American 
Bankers' Convention, at Niagara Falls,New 
VotU, on the 10th iust,: 
It ia already evident that in the agri¬ 
cultural capabilities of her soil lie the pos¬ 
sibilities of California's greatest wealth, 
California is, to-day, not a mining but an 
agricultural State. Her wheat crop last 
year, after supplying all homo demands, 
including that of distilling, gave a surplus 
for export of not less than 1,400,000 tons— 
a surplus worth, even at the low rates that 
prevailed on account of the scarcity of 
tonnage, $01,500,000, or more than twice 
the whole bullion product of the State. 
Or, to put it in another way, thu wheat 
crop of California for IHK0 was worth more 
than half as much as the bullion product 
of the whole United States. 
ACUK OF TUB VINKVAIlli ANU OUCIIA1IO. 
But great as arc (bo possibilities of grain- 
grOwinjj in California, it ia now beetiming 
apparent that the most valuable of her in¬ 
dustries in the future will In* that, of tho 
vineyard and m chard. California is by nature 
tho France of America; yet, in spin* of the 
natural adaptation of ln*r soil and climate 
to tin.' culture of tho grape, wine, making 
in California boa had many ditlicultic* to 
"UUMul with, arising partly from want of 
•xrumiMice as to noils, varieties, hum lea of 
:ultur< and manufacture; partly from the 
necessity of developing the proper organl- 
lulUl " mauhiuery. and partly from the 
u, „ e "'l"ir<jd to gain „ reputation and 
secure an assured market. It is only within 
the last few years that, all these difficultina, 
inseparable from the Naturalization „f a 
n.'w III (Justly, t, my |„> feai.l to |,„vo hern 
'Infinitely overcome, JJ„t they have been 
overcome. Tho grupu.grower* of California 
, 8 r «pO» as tsfli Uinly a 
farmer can sell hu, wheat,and at f Hr mor 
tho 
