FRUIT GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. 
7 
Month 
1892 
1893 
1894 
1895 
Highest 
temp. 
Lowest 
temp. 
No. days 
above 85° 
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| temp. 
Lowest 
temp. 
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Highest 
temp. 
Lowest 
temp. 
No. days 
above 85° 
Highest 
temp. 
Lowest 
temp. 
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6 o 
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January . . 
65 
87 
_ 
65 
35 
_ 
64 
28 
— 
62 
32 
— 
February . . 
67 
35 
— 
67 
36 
— 
65 
32 
69 
37 
— 
March . . . 
76 
42 
_ 
78 
38 
— 
74 
35 
' — 
73. 
36 
— 
April . . . 
74 
42 
— 
74 
44 
. — : 
82 
42 
— 
78 
43 
— 
May . . . 
95 
47 
5 
85 
45 
— 
86 
45 
1 
87 
46 
2 
June . . . 
90 
52 
1 
94 
51 
2 
88 
50 
1 
96 
50 
5 
July. . C' . 
100 
53 
2 
89 
48 
3 
91 
53 
8 
94 
54 
3 
August . . . 
96 
54 
5 
85 
52, 
— 
101 
55 
4 
92 
53 
4 
September 
87 
50 
1 
79 
45 
— 
97 
50 
7 
92 
50 
3 
October . . 
85 
42 
— 
81 
41 
— 
88 
44 
1 
86 
48 
1 
November . . 
78 
37 
— 
77 
37 
— 
76 
40 
— 
84 
34 
— 
December . . 
72 
34 
— 
78 
30 
— 
61 
34 
— 
70 
30 
The above table shows the highest and lowest temperature, 
the hours of observation being 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. of each day in 
the month. 
Oue Soil. 
The soil of Santa Clara County varies greatly in different 
localities, some parts being specially adapted to the cereals, 
others to vegetables, and still others to orchard fruits, small 
fruits, and the vine. Many fields are continuously planted with 
one kind of grain, and yield heavily. Wheat raised in the 
eastern portion, where the soil is somewhat gravelly, sells for 
the highest price and makes the best flour. Occasionally a 
stretch of “ adobe ” soil is found, its adhesive qualities making 
it difficult to cultivate in wet weather, yet producing exceedingly 
heavy crops, and considered very valuable land. 
The district towards the Bay is given over more to grazing 
and small fruits. Running north-east to south-west, and directly 
through St. Jose, is probably the most fertile section of the valley. 
The rich bottom land adjoining the Los Gatos Creek, and locally 
known as “The Willows,” is the heaviest fruit-producing section 
in the world, and every kind of fruit appears to grow with equal 
luxuriance. And while our foot-hills are declared the native 
home of the grape, owing to the soil being of a dark brown 
sandy loam, quite unlike that of the valley, richer flavoured, 
more luscious fruit than is grown thereon, even to an altitude of 
2,000 or 8,000 feet, is not grown anywhere. Finally it may be 
