Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-11-11
CaIifornia's Climate and Fruits.

THE COLD WEATHER OF JULY AT SAN FRANCISCO
THE FRUITS, AS COMPARED WITH OUR OWN.
SACRAMENTO, October 25th
California has all sorts of a climate. That of
San francisco is pronounced by Its own citizens
delightful, and by everybody else, execrable.
For eight months of the year. the breeze from
the sea is strong wind, so turbulent, that upon
high and exposed localities, such as the batteries
at Black Point, 1t is often matter of cYertion to
keep your feet. From tho ocean, too, come
heavy fogs, so dense and damp that visitor sup
poses them to be rain showers, till he is assured
they are only mists A carefully written article
In the Alta newspaper, says Many persons
complain that the San Francisco summers are
too cold, and most people have no summer
clothes, but wear the same heavy woollens in
July us in January. We have no dog days
"and we go out isto the country, in summer, to
escape the cold, not to escape The heat"
In the interior valleys of the State, you must
find the best California climate. Thus, at Sacra-
mepto you avoid both those disagreeabe ocean
visltants, the fog and the wind. The winters are
mild and the summers warm. Many plants
which arc ANIMALS, or bennials, elsewhere, be-
come occasionally, pcicnnials, here. Cotton,
cabbage, and tobacco plants, have grown here to
be five or six years old, and assume the form of
little trees. The orange, the fig the camelia, the
eucalyptus the passion flower, the geranium,
and other plants which must be removed to the
conservatory for winter quarters, in Delaware,
will hero thrive without shelter. The mean tenn
perature of July, at San Francisco, is 81 degrees;
and Of January, 40 degrees. AT Sacramento, the
variation is greater, the avaroge of July being
10 degrees, and Of january 40 degrees. Between
San Francisco and sacramento, 1t is stated,
:" almost any desirable warmth of summer can
" be found, and between Newcastle, ut the foot
of the Sierra Nevndas, and Cisco near the rail-
- road summit, any severity of winter. There
" are only two hundred miles between perpetual
"spring, and eternal snow"
Away down in the Southern part of the State.
at Los Angeles the climate becomes tropical
The orange, olive lemon, and date-pam bloom
perpetually in the open air. Some of them are
known to be fifty years old, and no frost has ever
| injured them.
should be found to suit every one unless you
desire the marked and precise seasons OF the At
| autic Coast, and prefer to sec them change from
blooming spring, to ardent summer, cooiing an-
tumn, aud cold winter. There are here no bril-
| liant autumn foliage upon the trees, no skating
nor seighing, none Of the braciug and iuvigora-
ting air of january. Perhaps you would prefer
| them.
| met with several persons afflicted with lung
diseases, who had come to California to spend tue
winter, but were hurrying their return to Mime
| sofa, saying that the climate and air which they
| had experienced here were by no means favora-
| BILE. l did not learn that they bad been 10 Los
Angeles. That locality, resembling Florida,
would, think, be the best part of California, for
consumptives.
And now one word as to the California fruits
looked through veralstorehouses of the whole
sale dealers, went repeatedly through the retail
market houses, and visited twice the Mechanics
Institute Fair, where many specimens of ilui
were on exhibition. In respect to size, they are
generally larger than those of the Eastern States
they grow more luxuriantly and more grossly
AS to flavor, do not think them equal, as rule
to tho varieties produced at home, though by
careful cult walton they may, no doubt, become
so. In q collection of six or eight varieties o
grapes such as are sold in the markets, though
the Isabella as good as any of the others, and !
was no better at all than our growth of the SAM
variety In the East Ii. NJ. j.