The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-04-09
POINTS ON OLIVE AND GRAPE CULTURE
From the san Francisco Merchant

From the san Francisco Merchant
To graft grape vines on to wild stock is
good investment, even if there were no
phylloxera, for, so grated, they will bear
earlier and more heavily.
Several years since Mr. Il. X. Nichols,
of Lake County. California, became i'm
pressed with the adaptability of the
climate to the production and growth Of
the olive tree. He procured and planted
in his orchard at Lower Lake, two trees.
Such has been his success with these,
that this year he sent of and procured
large lot of young olive trees; planted
pretty grove on the Konocti Vineyard
property, and gave the others in small
lots to the prominent vineyard and orchard
men in this vicinity to more thoroughly
test the experiment.
Mr.. Pohudorf, the well-known authority
OH grape aud. orange culture, describes
sample Of fine. brilliant. black colored
Mission olive, grown by Mr.. Beerstecker.
at AN elevation of 1000 feet above Napa
Valley, near Rutherford. This a new
proof of the olive tree having right
to be planted and cultivated in the higher
localities of Napa county. That elevated
positions are the legitimate and preferable
ones for the prosperity of the olive tree is
a fact. And when at the heights Wherein
Mr.. Beerstecker's lands are situated such
perfect olives are raised, and probably
without any care, since the proprietor was
not even aware of what variety was grow
ing there, what fine prospects there are In
store for similar locations? A large mum.
Der of cuttings Mr. Krug rooted at his
ranch on Howell Mountain, show thus far
all the indications of growing in a con-
genial place. What fear then, that the
olive will not most largely compensate for
the pains taken in permitting il raom in
our lands.
j. g. Mccall, the General Agent of the
New York Erie and Western Railroad
Company, on the Pacific Coast, is putting
all the enterprise for which he is noted
into two fine properties near Fresno.
Each covers a section, and his home place,
only two and half miles north of the
town, is to be entirely devoted TO fruit
trees. At present only 25 acres are in
vines, but So more are to be planted this
season.
Professor Hussman writes "The
change by or afting old, thrifty vineyards
of Mission Malvasia or Muscats. with the
best varieties of the Aestivalis class,
may be summed up briefly as follows
First-Changing varieties which will be
comparatively worthless i'll the near flu
ture, on account of their inferior quality,
into vines, the products OF which will be
of great vniue in blending with other vari-
cites, especially in giving color aud tam
min to our red wines. Second-Changing
u non-resistant vine into a resistant one,
and thus pretec ting it against the phyl-
loxera.
A comparison of the raisin shipments
from California to Eastern points, for the
months of November and December, 1884,
shows an increase during the latter month
of 1870 pounds. The largest ship
ments were made from Los angeles, show
ing that that city may be regarded as the
main distributing center for this branch
of our California industries. The total
quantity shipped last November were Gill;
400 pounds in December last, 1,024, 1S4
pounds.
From a technical paper of Spain we
give the following receipt for the preser-
walton of vineyard stakes. It is claimed
that the part of the stake which is put in
the ground obtains the durability of iron
by giving it three OF four baths in mix
ture of boiling linseed oil and mineral coal
finely powdered.