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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURIST. 
VOL. III. 
LOS A NOEL ICS, CAL., OCTOBER, 
PEACHES AND CREAM. 
Given us a Jersey cow and a Delaware 
pencil orchard, and we have all (be condi¬ 
tions of an Olympian banquet. The gods 
used to take great interest in earthly coin- 
fotis nl the time that their intontiorm were 
invited, mill their high station was con¬ 
ceded. They had as intense appreciation 
of the mortal beauty of women ns a Greek 
sculptor, and in uiOHt. of the luxuries of 
• he classic • ra the enjoyments of man were 
but imitations of the supposed revels of 
deitie s. As the latter were not averse to 
"liming the good things of earth with those 
inferior brings who, subject to these higher 
powers, were Rent to subdue anil control 
the planet., we doubt, not, thut had the old 
familial relations been continued up to the 
present time, we should find even old Ju¬ 
piter forsaking his amours, to order up a 
thousand crates of Rareripes by tin- Mount 
Ida express. Rawlins might for once have 
dreamed of reform, forgetting that the first 
duty of « god was to m l an example of 
beastly intoxication to maudlin njid imita¬ 
tive man. hud the blushing cheeks of these 
fragrant spheres eftught the reveler's vis¬ 
ion. Apollo might well hnve congratu¬ 
lated himself upon Ids greatest work, ns 
he gn/cil in rapture over an expunse in 
which I bo beams lie lind scattered bud nc- 
cliieved their grente-l triumph; and Mi¬ 
nerva— well, she was s' me, and would 
probably have played milkmaid with that 
Jersey cow and plucked llie mubrosinl fruit 
without stopping in inquire to whom the 
orchard belonged, 
We merely recall I ho interest, of gods 
and goddesses in Kindi mutters iu order to 
emphasize till* conditions of life which now 
justly claim our gratitude Ami to show 
wherein we me, in come n sped-,, superior 
to tin- angels, who hurl left heliitid them 
nil appreciation of ponchos and oroaui. 
They may base ri«en to higher joys, bid 
could sve be assured of Ibis, a great many 
people would try much man ardently to 
pmj lure themselves for n participation in 
the heavenly fruitage limn they do at. yp *. 
ent The most pious children an- u-ually 
those to whom lumen menus uuliinilcd 
pbnn-caki . with eh mill immunity from 
cube. The Indian speaks. d it as tie happy 
hunting ground; but the Ghristinu rum op 
lit >n of it ought lo riKt> nt. least as high ns 
an expansive puradiv when* tin peaches 
and cream are ncvi-i exhausted. Now svo 
think of it, bus not John Burroughs eliri*t 
i hi d tin cow “ Our ltural Divinity," and 
iu attempting lo describe a pencil ha has 
wandered iu metaphysical sloughs not pe¬ 
culiar to him; mo we take it that •sen his 
brilliant, gift, of word - painting w as not 
equal to the theme. The longue of mini 
can declare the idyl of the peach to him 
self alone, and that, by uliMorptioii, by a 
wondrous affiliation of papilla* and palp; 
but by no amount of wagging cun it impart 
to others the peculiar qualities it has fell 
but can not. express. Pomona's bent gifts 
are with us now', and in their abundance 
let the heart of man rejoice.-- //-...dm, /'■>«/. 
DEMAND FOR SEMI-TROPIC FRUITS. 
The orchnrdists of California are deeply 
interested in the foreign fruit market, both 
exports and imports. This State produces 
many fruits for which there is a demand in 
Europe and other countries. But it is 
necessary for our producers to realize how 
huge the home market is. So long ns 
Mediterranean oranges are sold in New 
York there is room for new orange gt-ov-*.s 
in California, and the same is true of other 
semi-tropic fruits, nuts, etc*. 
The annual report of the Custom-house 
authorities of New Vork for Ihe year 1879, 
shows how largo and important the trade 
in foreign fruits has become. An increase 
is visible in the imports from both the 
Wont Indies and the Mediterranean polls 
The dangers and damages incident to sen 
voyage uru such Hint largo rinks are run by 
• ho importers. During the year, for iii 
•dame, out of 880,72!) I»oxm» of oranges 
imported from the Mediterranean ports the 
loss wiw fill per cent.; out of 1 HHi,r»(), r » boxes 
of lemon* tht) loss was All per cent. The 
total number of oranges in tin e boxes 
was ,‘dol; of h minis HlC,17li,7fiO. 
II required 172 vessels mostly steamer-., to 
convey this ■inruns llu* AUuutic. In addi¬ 
tion to I,Ilia, there wore, during the year, 
‘H. 8 GG barrels, and fif!,7'.!l half bawds of 
grape* imported, largely from Spniu 
Prices in New A Ill'll wen- low, the fruit 
arriving in Imd order, owing to a parasitic 
disease upon the orungt •>, which Inis mum d 
nuieli alarm among the pruducerar 
West, India oranges last venr were im- 
orteil into New Sort In the cxlinl lit 
«, 8 UU, 121 , nl w loch i l per emit. wme le I 
I'hoae were nlupped iii bumOn hi H.iiliii;* 
veH.-ela uud steamers, and from Jamaica, 
Havana, Nassau, and otlior point* Of 
limes, the importations were 9HH Imin l-: 
loss Hit per cent, Among other fruit* 
which figure in tie list are bumoia-. coeou 
nuts, arid grape fiuit. shaddocks plantains, 
mangoes, snpodillas, alligator pears and 
many others Fruit i« imported into lie 
United State* from Mexico, ('mitral Amcr 
1880, No. 10. 
I ica, Venezuela. Colombia, the West Indies, 
England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy. 
I Greece, and Turkey. As n question of 
values and duties the gr*en fruit, as 
enumerated above, which was entered nt 
1 New York last year, was worth f3,8f>B,540 
land paid duties of $1189.441. 
Iu this statement no account whatever 
j has been Liken ul dried figs, olives, and 
other fruits, or of the nuts, nm. li as filberts, 
walnuts, and almonds which arn brought 
in cargoes to New York. It is further to 
he remembered that thvsu figuri * arc only 
for one pint of entry, and ninny other 
cities along the Atlantic ve i board receive 
direct importations of semi-tropic fruits 
The lower Mississippi valley is .applied 
from New Orleans. Galveston and Mobile 
also import West India fruits. Aside from 
those distinctive tropic fruit* which can 
not possibly thrive in California, there yet 
retiming a wide margin for future growth 
•J Mcnii tropic fruit industries on the coast. 
It i* a noteworthy fact that the tropical 
fruit importations into New York for 1*79 
exceeded those of 1H7S by niue per rent. 
Evidently there iin-il lie no immediate 
fear of overstocking the markets of the 
Foiled Slates with homo-grown fruits.— 
S, F. BuMtJin. 
HOW MUCH WHEAT SEED TO THE 
ACRE! 
hi a lute Rural n Virginia contributor 
•will that one and a half to one and three 
quarter bushels of wheat seed to the acre 
i- tlio right quantity. On this head 1 will 
give my eXporieilCo for three juni In 
|s77 I lowed hoc peck in row- IH inches 
apart, mid cultivated in the spring — m- 
nul I, il.T bushels. The average crop of the 
| neighborhood was nt*out tcu bushels p**r 
|acre. In 187s I used 40 poutnln of seed 
on Iw'.i and otic third net'*, and got 70 
bushel". It Min' II good wheat X CIO . tllC 
average yield on iuv neighbor* laud being 
from 15 to 2fi bimln Is per new In 1879, 
I so will It in pounds of m I'd on llu> xiitnin 
row* J'J inches npsrt, and harvested 1* 
bushel* | 11 iu-r. Tin* w as n pour w heat 
i.niiii, the average yield in I he neighbor- 
i bond Lein from five to ten tiuahets per 
j acre. 1 hull mow the lust named amount, 
j igmn this fall If our Virginia friend will 
again try Ihe peek of «d with the pn'diict 
of which ho whh not content, on land l< -s 
I heavily uiniiured, hi* may la* U-tlor nati*- 
! tied. If farm to * would experiment mow, 
' the) Worth 1 mu mure, to their profit 
Davies* Co., ky. AY. H« 
