The Nevada journal., 1859-09-30
THE JOURNAL,
FRIDAY MORNING, Sept. 80, 1859.

tenSlV6 SarucnS aoout Nc"dut, anu
beg leave to report as follows:
Following up Deer Creek and about
a mile from town we came to the gar
den Of MIR. Worrell. The inclosure
contains about two acres, in which
grow apple, pear, plum. peach, and
other trees, grape vines. raspberries.
strawberries, besides almost all kinds
of vegetables for the table. In the
garden we saw thirty bearing peach
trees literally broken down with fruit
& which we found of superior quality.
Twenty-six apple trees have also a
moderate crop of fruit upon them.
The f,lit trees all present an excee-
dinghy thrifty appearance though we
were informed they were grown with
out water. The garden produced
this year but small crop of straw
berries, say one hundred quarts. A
white variety is still ripening in the
garden. Native raspberries in any
quantity are also grown but the
most prominent and interesting fea-
ture of the gar den is the luxuriance
and productiveness of its grapes.
There are one hundred vines three
wears old. and reported TO be of the
Los Angeles variety, though we
doubt it. The large clusters of grapes
hang in.the richest profusion. Not
less than from fifteen huodred to a
ton of grapes can now be collected
from these hundred vines. The soil
is none of the richest, is rocky, and
the vines have been watered but three
times during the summer. We were
shown a remarkable difference in the
size and maturity of the grapes upon
different vines, caused, it is alleged.
by cutting in the vine at various times
in the moon. Those which produc-
ed the poorest fruit are said to have
been pruned when the moon was at
its full, while tie others were trimm-
ed bu: few days after.
Mrs. Worrell insisted on bestowing
a prodigal cluster upon us which we
pronounce of an excellent quality.
On the south side of Deer Greek
and but a quarter of mile above
town, is the garden of Mulloy, cele-
brated hereahouts as having produced
heretofore large share of the straw
berries of our market. The garden
lies upon the side hill. having a steep
incline to the west and contains about
three acres under cultivation. There
are two hundred fruit trees one half
of which, are peach, mostly seedlings
of splendid flavor. The other half
are apple, pear, plum, ounce, necta-
rine, &c.
A large share of the grounds is
plsnted with potatoes, and some oil
the hills we saw opened were crow
ded. Mr.. Mulloy estimates his pota-
to crop at 800 bushels.
The first ounces we have ever
seen in the State are growing in this
garden.
&c. Gillespie has choice garden
at the head of Gold Flat, which for
extent and productiveness perhaps
exceeds that of any other about Ne
vada. He has about FIVE acres under
cultivation, on which are 300 peach,
200 apple. besides other kinds of fruit
trees, already set. He has also
about SEQ peach and 100 apple trees
in nursery that he designs setting out
the coming winter. Mr.. Gillespie's
garden lies nearly fiat, and has tor
the most part an exceedingly rich
soil. capable of producing almost
anything.
His bearing trees have been set out
I
three years. On twenty-one peach
trees four years old from the bud, he
produced this year, it is estimated,
full two hundred bushels of superior
fruit. Thirty apple trees of the same
age will yield probably thirty-fve
bushels. The Belle Fleur and Bald
win seem to be extra ordinarily pro-
ductive.
In the garden we saw about forty
large vines of the Los Angeles vari-
ETY., which would average quite forty
pounds of fruit to each vine. This
kind of grape does not however ma
ture well. Upon the vines we saw
the grape in every stage of growth
from the purpling approach to ripe
ness to the young berry just escaped
from the blossom.
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