
          258

"As to our fruit, the most common are peaches and nectarines
(I believe that I had a hundred bushels of the former
this year in my little garden in the town),  we have also apples
of diverse sorts, chincopin nuts, walnut, chestnut, hickory
and ground nuts." p. 199.

"The Resources of California." By John S. Hittel, San
Francisco, 1863.

From this I quote:
In California the plum suffers from the aphis or louse.
p. 185.

The growth of fruit trees is very rapid.  Peach trees
one year from the bud have in one year grown "to have trunks
from two to three inches in diameter."  "These specimens of
rapid growth were observed on an island near the junction of
the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers." * * At Petaluma * *
a peach tree, one year from the bud, was eight feet high and
eight and a half inches round." p. 185.

"Mr. E. B. Crocker, of Sacramento, wrote thus in Dec.,
1858: 'In Jan., 1855, I planted a small almond tree, with a
stem little larger than a goosequill, and which I cut down
        