The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-01-15

eties Of pressed flowers, of every hue and of
surprising brilliancy, nearly 200 varieties of
which are illustrated by truthful and beautiful
| drawings; seeds of more than 1000 varieties Of
native flowers; 20 varieties Of lily and other
dubious roots, embracing the remarkable soap
plant, rivalling the finest boast of the toilet
and adding to its healing qualities, as if provi-
ded by nature for the double purpose Of sani-
tSry and abulent properties for the native sons
! OF the forest; specimens of 1000 varieties of
the principal quartz veins and soils of the State:
about 20 varieties of the principal grapes and
clovers, many of the specimens pressed. en-
bracing the burr clover, that feed to fatness
q the cattle of a thousand hills" when all other
sustensnce is parched and withered Shelton's
mammoth clover, whose stalks, from one root,
covered an area of thirty-one square feet, some
of the stalks six feet long, half inch in dia-
meter, and the clover head Ave inches in cir
cumference; single stalks Of the white lily,
producing 100 flowers of inde.cribable delioacy
and beauty; stalks Of the oats gathered by Mr.
Shelton, 13 feet high; specimens Of wheat and
barley having $50 and 200 mammoth stalks
springing from one root, the produce of g single
seedi the red sugar beet, grown BY Mr.. L. NJ
Beard, of San Jose, % inches in circumference
and weighing a lbs; some from the lu1uriant
gardens of Alderman Greene, of this city, of
only two months growth, weighing six and seven
pounds; cucumbers raised by the same, Is in
cnes in length; onions cultivated by Messrs
Chamberlain and Masser, FIVE, six and seven
inches in diameter, and weighing three and four
pounds each-nearly 10000 pounds an acre,
and the whole number from the acre supposed
TO average one pound each; potatoes from Mr.
H. Speel, of Santa Cruz, 100 pounds from five
vines of single hill; one from Mr. ]. B. Ste
ems, of Santa Clara, 13 inches in length, p in
ches in circumference, and weighing y pounds;
the Russian bald barley, grown by Mr. John
son, on his ranch, upon the banks Of Bear river,
weighing Sc pounds to the bushel, with a kernel
nearly double the size Of large wheat; raspber-
ries five inches in circumference; barley from
the San Jose valley, of which two hundred and
sixty-five bushels were produced from less than
Eve acres ofland; some from the farm of Madame
Scoopy, of Sonora, where twelve acres, by ordi-
nary cultivation, produced a crop of 50, 900 lbs;
single bunches of luscious grapes from the gar
den of Gen Vallejo, at Sonoma, weighing 10
lbs; apples, peaches, figs, and other fruits of
enormous size from the same; from Mr.. Horner
tomatoes weighing two pounds each; pumpkins
and squashes 100 to 140 pounds; cabbages two
feet in diameter, and weighing over 80 pounds
onions beets and potatoes, of enormous size,
not isolated, but by hundreds of bushels the
top onion produced the first season from the or
binary seed; samples of wheat and barley of
uncommon size and weight; besides specimens
of countless varieties of plants, herbs, vines,
| fruits grains, and esculents of exceeding size
and singular perfection, to the enumeration OF
which the proper extent of this address is
! wholly inadequate.
"Indeed, there is seartely 4 fruit or plant,
a shrub or flower, mineral or vegetable, OF
which any land can boast, but what is embraced
within the limits of California, a bright and
/ particular STAR in the constellation of States,
the crowning gem in the tiara of freedom"
The speaker gave the following as the pro
duct of 500 acres of Mr.. Horner's farm in Santa
Clara Valley for the fifth year, with the average
! aid of 60 cO-laborerS.