Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-01-14

or astonishing productions, are, beet grow
be by Mr.. Isaac Brannan, at San Jose, weig
er ing sixty-three pounds; carrots three fe
e. 9, in length, weighing forty pounds. 4
or Stockton is a turnip weighing one hundre
e. pounds. In the latter city, at party fl
i; Il twelve persons, of a single potato large
!. than the size of an ordinary hat, all pa
n took, leaving at least one-hslf Of it VI
r. touched
: These may be supcrlatives, but they d
exist, and they show what our climate an
soil are capable Of producing. Nor ar
these more seeming ly incredible than tn
well-known fact of portion of our State
nearly six hundred miles in length ant
fifty in breadth, whose every foot Of ground
from hilltop to valley, is more or less i'm
pregnated with gold of every conceivabl,
form and size, from dust up to lump.
weighing thirty pounds.
But let us cast our eyes around this hall
and what We do see, even from this hasty
collection and casual contribution An
agricultural, botanical, geological, mineral
and floral exhibition, embracing nearly
one thousand varieties of pressed flowers,
of every hue, and of surprising brilliancy,
nearly two hundred varieties of which are
illustrated by truthful and beautiful en-
cravings; seeds Of more than three thou
sand varieties of native flowers; twenty
varieties Of lily and other bulbous roots,
embracing the remarkable soap plant, ri
valling the finest boast of the toilet, and
adding to its healing qualities, as if pro-
vided by nature for the double purpose of
sanitary aud abluent properties for the
native sons of the forest specimens of one
thousand varieties of the principal quartz
veins and soils of the State; about twenty
varieties Of the principal grapes and
elovers, many of the specimens pressed,
embracing the burr clover, that feeds to
fatness "the cattle of thousand hills"
when all other sustenauce is parched and
withered Shelton's mammoth clover,
whose stalks from one root covered an area
ofthirty-one square feet, some of the stalks
six feet long, half inch in diameter, and
the clover-bead five inches in circumference;
single stalks Of the white lily, producing
one hundred flowers, of indescribable deli
cacy and beauty; beautiful specimens of
minerals and pressed flowers from H.
Pratten, Esq, of Nevada stalks Of the
oats gathered by Mr.. Shelton, thirteen feet
high; specimens Of wheat and barley
having one hundred and fifty or two hun
dred mammoth stalks springing from one
root, the produce Of single seed the red
sugar beet, grown by Mr.. L. NJ. Beard, of
San Jose, twenty-eight inches in circum-
ference and wa;~I;-,~ rr-..- -------.----',
some from the luxuriant gardens of Alder
man Green, Of this city, Of only two
months growth, weighing six OF seven
pounds; cueumbers, raised by the same,
eighteen inches in length onions, cultiva-
ted by Me.srs. Chamberlin and Nusser,
Eve, rix. and seven inches in diameter, and
three and four pounds each
nearly seventy thousand pounds to An acre
and the whole number from the acre sup.
posed to average one pound each potatoes,
from Mr.. H. Speel, Of Santa Cruz, one
hundred and twenty pounds from five vines
Of single hill; one from Mr.. B. J. Ste
vens, of Santa Clara, thirteen inches in
length, twenty seven inches in circumfer
ence, and weighing seven pounds and a
half; the Russian bald barley, grown by
Mr.. johnson, on his ranch, upon the banks
Of Bear River, weighing sixty-six pounds
to the bushel, with kernel nearly double
The size Of large wheat; rsspberries five
inches in circumference barley from the
San Jose valley, of which nine hundred
and sixty-6ve bushels were produced from
less than Eve acres of land; some from the
farm of Madame Scoofy, Of Sonora, where
twelve acres, by ordinary cultivation, pro-
iuced crop of fifty-three thousand pounds;
these walls, festooned with luscious grapes,
from Capt. Maltby, of Los Angelos-sin-
gle punches from the garden Of Gen. Val
lejo, at Sonoma, weighing ten pounds;
apples, peaches, figs, and other fruits, Of
enormous size, from the same from Mr..
Horner, tomatoes weighing two pounds
each y; pumpkins and squashes one hundred
to one hundred and forty pounds cabba-
yes two feet in diameter, and weighing fifty
pounds; onions, beets and potatoes of
size, not isolated, but by hun
lreds of bushels, the top onion produced
he first season from the ordinary seed
With samples of wheat and barley Of un-
COMMON size and weight; besides samples
md specimens of countless varieties of
,lants, herbs, vines, fruits, grains and es-
ulents, of exceeding size and singular
,erfsction, collected by Mr.. Shelton, to