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DON’T OVERLOOK THE EMPEROR GRAPE 
Wonderful Pomegranate 
Wonderful There is probably no other profitable fruit that enjoys the dis¬ 
tinction of being so widely planted in California for ornamental 
purposes as the Pomegranate. 
We know sections where "this variety has been planted between young 
orange trees (so that some revenue might be derived from the soil while 
waiting for the orange trees to come in bearing) and produced a revenue of 
$800.00 per acre. 
Most of this fruit is shipped east where it finds a strong and ready market. 
The fruit is of yellow color overspread with red and often blushed with deep 
scarlet. The pulp is a rich garnet color, with an abundance of juice, of a 
dark color and a very pleasing flavor, slightly sub-acid. Ripens in October. 
GRAPES 
Without contradiction it can be stated that California leads all other states 
of the union in the production.of grapes for table use, shipping and the manu¬ 
facture of wine and raisins; in fact, we have the largest acreage of raisin 
grapes in the world which is located in ten counties of the state, principally 
in.the San Joaquin Valley. In 1917 we produced over 264,000,000 pounds of 
raisins alone, and that crop was practically sold before the drying period 
this season. 
Owing to our favorable climatic conditions, our principal varieties are of the 
European type, which produce the highest quality fruit that can be grown, 
and many of these find a ready market in the Eastern States where they pro¬ 
duce only the American (the slip skin type). 
The grape luxuriates in rich loam soils but can be planted on heavy and 
sandy, soils, some varieties doing even better on these than where the ground 
is a rich deposit. 
The usual distance for planting grapes is 8x10 feet apart, requiring 544 vines 
to the acre. When the vines are to be staked and trellised 6x12 feet apart 
is preferred and 605 vines planted on an acre. When the latter distance is 
used the vines are staked the second year and the third year heavy posts are 
set at the ends of the rows and two wires are stretched along the row and 
fastened at each stake. The wire used is No. 12 gauge and spread 18 inches 
apart, the bottom ' ire to be 30 inches above the ground and the second wire 
18 inches above the first wire. 
When the wires are stretched, cross cultivation is discontinued and a minr 
mum expense is added, it being necessary to hoe out the center of the rows, 
but the increased crop more than pays this expense. 
.The pruning of the vines is an exhaustive subject and there are so many 
differences, of opinion as to the proper method to use that we will only give 
a general idea of how this work should be accomplished. 
