Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-22


fair, but the grapes were too ripe for
me to do this; but i shall have plenty
of Thompson's seedless raisins at that
time, so all can Judge of the quality of
the fruit, now that the enormous pro-
ductiveness OF the vine is shown in Fres-
no SOIL"
NEW FRUIT.
G. Gale, of Florida, writes as follows
to the American Agriculturist of new
fruit called the cerimang, which flour
ishes we'll in parts of that state:
This strange plant is native OF
the island of Trinidad, and is OF so
recent introduction to Florida that few
persons have seen it fruiting. The plant
has been growing unprotected in our
open grounds on Lake Worth. for about
three years. 1t seems suited to sandy
soil, but demands plenty of water. It
is a scrambling plant OF very rank
growth, sending out aerial roots from
each joint, by which it clings to any
support, and by which, in its native
home, it climbs to the top of
the highest trees. The leaves are
fully three feet in diameter,
mounted on leaf stalks three feet long.
These leaves are parted irregularly on
the edges and pierced by innumerable
oval holes. No two leaves are alike as
to the number or shape of these open
ings. The fruit resembles an elongated
pine cone, from eight to ten inches long,
covered with hexagonal scales, which
come off readily when ripe, leaving the
edible center like large banana. The
fruit is without seeds, and it is said in
.oko ko - ~f hot
1.-THE banana and pineapple, though SUI
mony of experience will corroborate
this high praise of the fruit time alone
can decide. Ii the fruit is as desirable
as reported there seems to be no good
reason why it may not be cultivated in
the southern portion of Florida and
California.
A PROLIFIC TREE.
Evidence multiplies that the climate
OF Santa Barbara, says the Press, is par
ticularly adapted to,the cultivation OF the
lemon, and at the present rate of plant
ing this county will in few years be
the greatest lemon section of the state.
Johnston & Goodrich have on the San
Ysidro ranch, in Montecito, a single
Seeding lemon tree, which was planted
twenty-five years ago, and of which
careful record has been kept for the past
year. During the past twelve months
the tree has produced thirty boxes OF
fruit, or total weight in fruit of fully
one ton. OF this ten boxes were filled
at one picking, and five boxes at an
other time, and lemons were obtained
from the tree every month in the year.
The fruit is Of good, marketable size,
bright and clean in color, and is readily
salable. At the low average price of 2
cents per pound, this one tree has pro-
duced in the past year lemons to the
value of at least $40.
Johnston 4 Goodrich have largely in
creased their shipments of citrus fruits
the past year, and since the 1st of Janu-
ary have shipped about 10000 boxes of
oranges and lemons, which is equal to
about $50 tons or thirty-fve carloads of
fruit.
ROSES BUDDED ON PEACH.
Sometime since l read in some ex-
change, an article ridiculing an idea ad-
vanced by some writer, in regard to
roses being budded on the peach.
This idea may be new in California,
| but not in the far south, where roses
bloom in great profusion. | have seen
and 4-year-old peach tree bloom as
nature would have it on some branches,
early in April; then, from May to
August, hang thick with branches of
white, pink and yellow roses, a perfect
wonder to the passers by.
These trees were first seen in the
flower garden of Judge Amos r. John
son, a prominent criminal lawyer of
Mississippi.
One especially was a delight to the
eye; large pink rose that covered
willowy canes from five to six feet in
length.
1t resembled much the Rose de Pro-
vence and bloomed in great profusion
throughout the month of June.-[Santa
Clara Valley.
NOTES.
Seventeen hundred pounds OF beans to
the acre on forty acres was gathered this
year on II. w. Bakers place at Saticoy,
on the Telegraph road. They have been
sold and delivered at the warehouse.
Last fall 400 walnut trees 5 years
old, on j. M. Dickinson's place at Sati-
coy, yielded one or two walnuts. This
year from the same trees he has gath
cred sixty sacks of medium English
walnuts, averaging fifty pounds to the
sack.
In recent issue we understated the
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