The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-07-09
FRUIT AND NUTS.
How They are Made Profitable in
Nevada County.
The Experience Of a Man With a
Small Hold1ng-Pruues and Nuts
Speciality.
[RrcoRD-UN1ox's Travelling Correspondent

[REcoRD-UNIoN's Travelling Correspondent
NEVADA CITY, July although de-
! lighted with the comfortable homes, busy
streets and general prosperity of Grass
Valley, my stay was short. Nevada City
was in her holiday dress, with flags and
evergreen decorations everywhere. All
were delighted with the celebration and
especially with Grove L. Johnson's ora
| ton, where he touched on the questions
of the relations between miners and
farmers differences and present pros
poets of reconciliation. Quartz mines
and drift mines are looking better,
and everybody seems full Of hope.
Most Of my time was spent in looking
over n few acres of the very worst land
IN all the Sierras where it could fairly be
said there was any soil at all, and think
ing all the time what an answer it was to
the Micawbers who spend their time do
ing nothing and trying to discourage 9TH
ers by claiming that nothing pays. Here
was a foreigner, who had been used TO
nursery work, who bought poor rocky
place containing Jew acres of granite
soil, and he told me chose this because he
was too poor to buy better. If he gave
more than 500, in its native state, for the
tract he showed me, it would be my
judgment that he had been imposed
upon. lie has made of it a country homo
which is entitled to a very high rank
among the places III California where
there is most to be learned and most to
be achieved.
He has made himself an authority upon
those subjects, which he has made his
speciality, and is probably conducting as
many experiments as either OF the United
States Culture Stations. He says that all
you have TO do TO make this soil pro-
duce well is to clear Oft the rocks, dig it
all over to the depth of three feet, and
then give 1t plenty of manure and water.
Just Ghink of the labor. But ii you will
look around his home and see the COM
forts that have cost money, and reflect
that ali belongs TO a man who began too
poor to buy ten acres of average mount
ain land, you will be convinced that he
has made it pay.
1t is demonstrated that filberts will bear
all that they can safely hold up if trained
III tree form and only a very little around
the outside of the thicket when allowed
10 grow as bush.
Nevada City is IA very frosty locality
and stone fruits have suffered very
severely from gum disease. only the
prnne q Ente, which comes true from
sprouts, shows any promise Of com
IAlCASItA plOAlL LII LllcSG 1ncIe were
killing trosts in March, April and May.
There are more than twenty varieties Of
walnuts on this place. Some of them
have not been injured at all by these
trosts, and one has cut-leaf, resembling
an ash, that makes it a very handsome
ornamental tree. Experiments with
many varieties demonstrate that this alti-
tude is the home of the chestnut.
Walnuts are being grated and olives
rooted in the conservatory in small pots
sunk in boxes of sand and each plant
covered with a sodawater glass. Out of
cleft between two large powders is
growing a beautiful cypress, whose trunk
IS encircled by an ivy that makes it
thing of beauty.
This gentleman has been experiment.
ing in placing dessert prunes upon the
market. SO far his success has been very
encouraging, but ne is anxious to revisit
the home of the prune in France and
study again the processes in use there.
He has a new prune from France that is
something more than twice as large as the
ordinary French prune, and said to be
very fine in flavor.
The charming young housewife is evil
IDENTIFY very proud of her husband and
her home, but refused to tell me where
some other girls of my acquaintance
might find the same kind of Frenchmen.
AS many kind of nuts have been
proved a commercial success and they
require to be planted long distances
apart, they are recommended for planting
in vineyards in rows one hundred feet
apart. FRANK S. CHAPLIN.