The Placer herald., 1874-05-09

WHAT CAN BE DoNE.-Dr. Dubois has, adj
10 ming his residence, situated within the town
limits of Auburn, a lot Of about two acres.
Until four years ago this lot remained compara-
lively undisturbed from its primative condition.
At that time the Doctors father came to Cali
fornia, took up his residence with his son, and
and rs means of healthy employment, occupied
his time in the cultivation of those two acres of
ground. When he began, most of the ground
was rugged, rocky, covered with brush and in
every respect as sterile and unforbidding in APP
pearance, as any other two acres of land in this
part of the country. But now how great the
change! Through the individual labor of Mr..
Dubois Sr., now in his 10th year, the wilder
ness has truly been made to blossom as the
rose, and bear an hundred fold of most precious
fruit. Nearly every nook and corner of this
piece of ground is now bearing its tree, vine, or
vegetable, and their very thrifty and rugged
growth must be seen to be appreciated. Among
the varieties Of choice fruit now growing in this
lot, may be found blackberries, red and black
raspberries, strawberries, mulberries, goose
berries, currants, cherries, plums, apricots,
tarines, peaches almonds, pears, apples, black
and English walnuts, chestnuts, qtinces, etc,
besides potatoes, corn peas beans, beats, car
ros, onions, and all other varieties of fruit and
vegetables, nearly, that are to be found in
temperate or semi-troplcal climate. Though
large proportion Of the vines, bushes and trees
are necessarily young some not yet bearing at
all, the yield of fruit this year, from present
indications, will be large, almost beyond be-
lief. During The coming fruit season Mr. Du-
Bois will be obliged to employ some consider
able help, as it will be impossible for one, or
even two persons to pick the crop, and that
time is about to commence as the strawberries
are already ripening. At the very lowest Mr..
Dubois estimates the crop this year. from these
two acres of land, about as follows, and in
giving these figures, the reader will bear in
mind that at least one-third of the vines and
trees are not yet bearing 1,500 lbs blacbber-
ries, (9 10c, $3.50; 800 lbs Strawberries 01 15c,
1925; 800 lbs each of red and black raspber-
res, ,(915 $3.50: 500 lbs currants and gooseberries
(0 15c, $50; 2, 500 lbs peaches, "a &c, SIS; 1000
lbs apples, "a &c, $40. These, with the ounces,
nectarines, apricots, plums, pears, cherries (the
walnuts and almonds don't bear yeti etc, in
amounts, which we did not learn exactly, be-
sides the vesstlble CROP will increase the pro-
ceoda to nearly, or quite, double the aggregate
of tho above amounts. Besides these products
from tho main garden, Mr.. Dubois has, in one
conner, nursery, where several hundred Of
each of the following varieties of young trees
may be found in very thrifty condition. viz:
apples, plums pears cherries, chestnuts wal
nuts currants, etc. Then, again, there is the
hobed where onions, cabbages, tomatoes, car
rots beets, sweet potatoes, etc, are sprouted
ready for transpanting. Altogether it is a very
good illustration of what our foot-lil soil and
climate will produce when properly cultivated