Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-05-02
FRUIT INTERESTS.
State Horticultural Society Meeting-sub'
iects Discussed.


At its nesting in San Francisco Friday,
the State Horticultural Society discussed
the best fruits to send East, and no" 70
send them, J. NJ. Hixson gave an socouhs
OF his observations at the East. Inc ue-
mand for our fruits Is increasing, ous
need better railroad rates. GIsPes Anu
nears are the best to ship. Fluns sfe
doubtful and involve great risk; aPpies
rnnst he consumed at home. Dried iruit
can be shipped largely, and to that Kind Oh
r,oods he looked for our largest business
1sThe selling prices of the evsporated with
the snn.dried fruits, said MIR. dlxsoH.
81 are convincing Evaporated unpeeled
ne,cbes lS cents per pound; n-dried,
cents. Peeled peaches, evaporated, 80
cents. sun-dried, 20 cents. Aprioots,
ev.norated, 271 cents sun-dried, Is cents.
Fvanorated nectarines, 273 cents /; sun
dried. Is cents. Evaporated apples, ii
cents sundried, II cents. Evaporated
pears, l2t cents sun-dried, 81 cents.
Plums, evaporated, IL cents sun-dried,
l3 cents. Particular care should be
taken in preparing and boxing fruit,
for it is fact that the more attractive
they are made the sooner will they sell,
and our fruitraisers will do we'll to remem-
Der this, for they will find their goods
brought into direct competition with those
who practice it. In apricots and necta-
rines we have a monopoly in the East, but
care in putting them up ID necessary if we
would have them bring good prices" 1t
is not q waste, he insisted, to practice sll
care in this matter. The raisin and prune
also, while they have no great competition
from the orchardists Of the Eastern States,
have formidable rivals from abroad. The
boxes should be light and Of uniform size,
making sixty pounds the heaviest and the
others thirty and fifteen pounds. Mr..
Hixon felt no fear OF over. stocking the
market if good fruit is grown and Judgment
used in preparing it for market, for the
field is widening and with lower tariffs
there will be more profit in an orchard
than any style of farming.
A paper, by ]. II. Wilcox, was read on
strawberries. Notwithstanding the back
wardness OF the season Mr.. Wilcox held
the opinion that the crop would be up TO
the average, but the market will not be
overstocked. Last years crop was remu-
nerative, the Gamers making considerable
demsnds for berries of all kinds. Straw
berry plants have been scarcer than usual,
but the young plants have done we'll, bear
ing the first fruit this season. With re-
spect to the best varieties to be grown, the
Longworth Prolific still maintains its claim
on heavy irrigated land. Where the soil
has suitable drainage the Monarch of the
West, Triomphe de Grand and Sharpless
are fsvorites. On heavy land the Captain
Jack and Forest Rose do well. Longfellow
does well on light soil, and the Bidwell is
the mcst promising of the new kind tried
last year. Discussing the merits of various
varieties, J. Sainn, of Niles, said he pre-
ferred the Black Defiance, Downing and
Crested Sepoy, while for late bearing W.
Boots, Of San Jose, preferred the Long.
worth to all others.
Turning from the strawberry bed to the
asparagus bank, w. G. Klee Of Berkeley
wanted to know why. whilst the European
grass was tender and juicy all through,
the California product had but An edible
tip. Mr.. Boots knew the difference e1.
listed and knew that one was bleached by
banking and the other was not, but he
knew also that there was little demand for
the white, and that it paid rs per cent.
better to grow green than white asparagus.
opinion that the white asparagus was un-
healthy, an opinion in which all present
seemed to concur. Concerning the paying
properties of an asparagus crop, It was
agreed, after some figuring, that whilst
5000 an acre was q fair gross receipt, IS
high as $500 an acre had been recsived, of
which 80 per cent. could be counted upon
as profit.