Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-11

in that way you will have such buds as
will, when developed, make the hand
some blooming plant veritable bou-
quet, symmetrical and shapely. Many
OF the chrysanthemums are already
throwing up shoots from the ground
that do not show buds. Save these, for
they will bloom later in the season.
NOTES.
Raisn packing will commence at the
packing houses next Monday, as enough
will be cured by that time to begin
on.-Riverside Press.
A gentleman who lives in San Diego
county intends experimenting with cas-
sava. He says that this tapioca snd
starch-yielding root, whose cultivation
be was familiar with for many years in
British Honduras, can certainly be made
profitable crop here. AS his other ex-
periments have been successful, he pro-
poses to give cassava thorough test
Riverside Press.
Charles F. Anderson brought to our
Office this morning several punches of
fine muscat grapes There is nothing
very singular about that, for punches of
fine looking grapes are very plentiful
this season. The singularity consists I'm
the fact that the grapes were picked
from cuttings set out last March. 1t is
not every country in the world where
sticks cut from vines can be stuck in
the ground and crop of grapes secured
in six months. The cuttings were from
William Nc Beams Etiwanda vineyard,
and were set ovt In nursery form at
Mound City by Mr.. Anderson. This
merely proves what wonderfully pro-
life country we live in.-I Riverside
Press.
George T. Brown, of the lower valley,
has wonderfully rich and productive
place. On recent visit we saw navel
orange tree, six years old next spring,
containing between six and seven hun
dred oranges. A large lot of seeding
peach stock planted in May that run
from six to seven feet high, and have
not been irrigated at all. Year old peach
trees in orchard, no water, that had tops
aight feet high and eight feet in diam
eter. Lemon trees breaking beneath
their weight of fruit. He has in his
front yard two umbrella trees set out
five years ago that are eighteen feet high
and have spread of limb twenty-eight
feet across, making very dense shade.
1t is one of our most novel and beauti-
full trees, and we wonder that there are
not more of them planted.-[Covina
Argus.
A Fowler correspondent of the Fresno
Expositor has this to say of plan for
fastening the ripening OF raisin grapes,
which seems to possess merit enough for
a trial: Various means have been
thought of to hasten the ripening of the
second crop Of grapes, so as to be able to
save it before the rainy season set in,
but none have met with so much favor
as the one recently practiced by our large
vineyardist, B. E. Hutchinson. Thep plan
is to gather the ends of the vines that
lay on the ground and bring them
to the center over the stump and tie
with stout string. This leaves the
punches exposed to the suns rays,
which at this season are not very warm,
and in comparatively short time the
grapes are sufficiently ripe to pick. This
This also removes the punches of grapes
from the ground and prevents them
from decaying. One man can tie up
from one and half to three acres per
day. The expense of tying is more than
repaid by saving those that would de-
cay, to say nothing of the time gained
in rlpening, which is very valuable at
this season of the year.