Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-02
CaliE0rnia's Fruits.

We make the following extracts fror
an interesting article in the San Fran
cisco Chronicle on the fruit crops Q
that State:
SMALL FRUITS.
Up to the 10th of June 1,120, 90
pounds of strawberries were shipped t
this city-a very large consignment
At present they are very scarce. It ha
been remarked that the raspberries O
this year have q richer flavor tha
usual, but no increase in the yield ha
been noticed. This circumstance ma
arise from the fact that in 1881 thi
fruit was much injured by the ravage
OF q small bug about the size of tw,
lines, which can only be detected b,
careful scrutiny. The number O
strawberry vines and blackberry, rasp
berry, currant and gooseberry bushe
has been estimated at 10000, 900, ant
the value of the yearly crop at nearl,
s., 600, 900. The gooseberries are con
sidered inferior to those of other coun
tries, but they are rapidly improving.
LARGER FRUITS.
The apricot looks well this year, ani
is slightly improved in flavor. Their,
are about 100. 900 trees in the State il
good condition. But few peaches ar,
in market. Hale's early variety, from
Briggs orchard. Marysville, may bt
seen for sale. They are about thret
times the ordinary size, and weigf
about fourteen ounces each. OF nee
tarins there are about 10000 trees il
the State, and thev appear to be thriv
ing. There are about the same mum
ber of ounce trees. The ounce i.
hardy and prolific-not so much es
teemed here as the Casters States, be
cause the supply of fresh fruit is more
varied and abundant here throughout
the greater part of the year, and also
for the reason that ounce jelly is moi
SO much in demand as it is in colder
climates, where the SHOWS lie upon the
ground for three or four months every
winter.
PLUMS AND CHERRIES.
The different varieties of the plum
are represented by about $50, 900 trees,
of which number Santa Clara county
claims 120, 200. The fruit, as far as
can be ascertained, has never been
troubled by the curculio, or plum
weevil, SO destructive to it in the East
ern States and in Europe, Lately vast
quantities of this excellent fruit have
been pitted and dried by the Alden pro-
cess. in which shape they are sold in
bulk at twenty-five cents per pound,
and in caddies at forty cents. The
California cherries are the finest in the
world. unquestionably, as regards size
and flavor. A great deal of damage is
done to them by the birds, but the loss
is much less than wonld be sustained
by the depredations of the curculio and
other pests to vegetation which are de-
stroyed by the winged messengers of
the air. The crop this season IS large
and excellent. In Nevada county two
tons of cherries will be sent this year
to Colfax station, at ten cents per
pound. The cherry culture is very
profitable one. One hundred trees will
stand on an acre of ground at twenty
one feet apart, and an acre of the red
and of the foothills will yield a crop
worth one thousand dollars. The Ger
nan prune is represented by seven
thousand trees. Several companies
nave gone into the business of drying
his popular article of dessert with
great success, the dried fruit being
,qual to the best imported, and, in
act. some of it is palmed off and sold
IS the German prune
FIGS AND NUTS.
The broad-leaved, green and shady
ig tree, with its clusters of pear
haped juicy purple and green fruit. is
in California by nearly
ninety thousand trees. Frost is its
yreat climate enemy. and the genial
warmth of the Sacramento basin, and
he southern counties are its greatest
lelps to prolific development. In the
,oast valleys, where not troubled with
og, it produces one good crop annally,
,ut in the southern part of the State,
md in other favorable localities, it
-ields two, three, and even four crops
YER pear. As an instance. of the re-
prolific power of this tree, it
S related that Mr.. Knight, by continued
ligh temperature, produced, in Eng
and, as many as eight crops in twelve
months. A fig tree on the estate of
lr. Clarken, in Folsom, Sacramento
county, few years ago, produced four
rops of excellent fruit In one year, al
hough no care whatever was taken of
t. In the colder countries of Europe,
t is kept dwarfed, in order that it may
eceive the benefit of the heat of the
un reflected from the earth. The
most common varieties in California
re the old Mission Brown and the
White Smyrna. The former is most
but the latter yields larger figs,
nth better flavor. The dried fig is
quail in flavor, but does not present SO
ne an appearance as the imported ar
icle.
The two varieties of the almond, the
ard shell and the paper shell, are rep
esented by about forty thousand trees.
his tree resembles the peach very
losely, and is subject to the curl. 1t
, not so hardy as the peach, being
lore easily injured by frost, but is a
avorite in the market.
The English walnut, represented by
twenty-five thousand trees, is q very
rofitable nut. 1t falls from the trees
hen ripe, and can be left on the ground
everal months without danger of loss.
is extensively cultivated in Los
.ngelos, Sonoma, Santa Barbara, Sac
amento and Solano counties.
THE OLIVE.
The consumption of olive oil on this
cast is very great, SO much so that
be olives raised in Los Angeles will
OF be sufficient to supply the demand
or many years to come. Olives have
ever been extensively cultivated here,
Dr. the reason that there is no home
,arket for the crude oil, but there is
ow a sufficient quantity grown to man
facture the oil for the local market,
peaking upon this subject, the Los
ngelos Herald says:
1.-THE same process by which Mr..
arrears, of the Los Angeles Petroleum
.efning Company, reduces the heav-
st crude oil to first class illuminat-
IL fluid at q cost of two cents per gal
N, and within twenty minutes time,
i'll also regne olive oil, and make it
susl to the best article manufactured
/ Europe. This is an important dis