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SANTA ROSA NURSERIES 
BLACKBERRIES. 
Price, 50 cents per dozen ; $3.50 per 100. 
Lawton. — The standard market berry in California. 
Kittatinny. — Sweet and productive. 
Wilson’s Early. — A profitable market sort. 
Oregon Evergreen.—Very early and sweet. 
nut-bearing trees. 
In this department we wish to call attention to a class of trees to which our 
California soil and climate are peculiarly adapted, and one which has been greatly 
neglected, but is destined in the near future to receive the attention which 
it deserves. 
Most of the nut-bearing trees are longer than fruit trees in coming into 
bearing, yet some varieties, like the “ Prseparturiens ” and “California Soft 
Shell walnuts and the Spanish and Japan chestnuts come into bearing as soon 
as apple, pear or plum trees. They are all elegant shade trees, remarkably free 
from the attacks of insects of every description, make fine shelter belts around a 
farm, are long-lived and, add greatly to the value of land, whether planted as 
shelter belts, in groves, or long avenues. 
Desiring to see the subject receive the attention which it deserves, we give 
some items from our California papers, which will be of use to those who intend 
planting trees : 
Tree Planting. i here is no place that trees do not improve, and no time 
that they do not repay the trouble of caring for them. 
It may seem a trivial matter to propose the adornment of the streets and the 
improvement of property to induce the settlement of people of means within its 
borders; but just reflect that the impression of social life, abundance, and 
attractiveness, often overcomes other marked disadvantages. Where the 
experiment of rural improvement has been tried by private subscription, as at 
Berkeley and Santa Barbara, the increased value of private property is a hundred¬ 
fold. there is uo such thing in municipalities, any more than in nature, as a 
standstill. Either we progress or retrograde. There is no boom when you wait 
for it . — Reclioood Times and Gazette. 
