The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-09
Mexican Strawberry.

Mexican Strawberry.
A berry of surprising merit, won
drous beauty and luxuriant plant
growth is the Mexican strawberry.
says s. L. Watkins, of Ell Dorado
county. This berry is as near perfeo.
ton as has yet been attained in a
strawberry. 1t is rapid and beauti-
full grower with clean. healthy foliage
OF dark green color. The young
plants of this variety need no petting,
but take hold and grow rapidly. Gen.
orally these young plants perfect a
heavy crop the first season. A strange.
popularity of the Mexican strawberry
is tn t it will yield fruit for five or
six years without renewing, as against
three or four crops with other varieties.
1t gives heavy crops all through the
season in warm climates and in cold
climates it yields two crops season.
The berries are larger than those of
any variety cultivated at the present
day. have all the new and old varie-
ties, embracing about 800 kinds, and
have good chance to determine their
value. The Marshall, Monarch of the
West, Great American, Sharpless,
Enormous, Australian Crimson, La
France, Glen Mary, Brandywine,
Rival Hudson, Enhance, stc., are
among the largest berries, but the Mex.
lean is better than any of these be-
cause it will average two quarts of
fruit to the plant and in exceptional
cases three and even four quarts.
Currants and Gooseberries.
Take cuttings Of cu1rants in Septem.
Der after the new wood has ripened, as
may be seen by having turned brown.
Make them about six inches in length,
from the new wood, removing the
leaves. Plant them SO that only one
bud is left above the surface and they
will take root in the fall and be ready
to make growth promptly in the spring.
Some leaves or litter should be laid
around them when cold weather comes
on. to prevent them from heaving when
the frost comes out of the ground.
Cuttings of the gooseberry are more
difficult to root, but treated in the
same way portion of varieties will
root. But the better way to raise
gooseberries is by layering. This can
be done as early as the latter part of |
July. Draw the soil up about a bush |
and lay the branches partly down upon |
it and heap fine soil up over them,
spatting it down well with the back of
the spade to make it lie close to the
wood. The leaves should be removed
from the portions of the stems which
are covered. Leave the plants earthed
up in this way all winter and in spring
level off the soil and cut away the
rooted branches and plant them out to
make set of strong roots before finally
for fruiting. From the
plant thus employed, (called a stool
plant,) another set of shoots will grow,
and at the proper time in summer it
can be earthed up, and thus an annual
crop of plants be produced.
California's Fruit Acreage.
Based on the returns made by the
,ounry assessors, the San Francisco
Chronicle has compiled table show.
ng the number of fruit trees in the
state last year. 1t does not include
'pples, of which it is estimated there
ire about as many as pears. nor such
products as ounces. nectarines, or
,omeloss, Of which the acreage is
mall. The estimate is made on 100
rees to the acre, and shows as follows:
)eclduous, bearing, i10,945 acres;
ion-bearing, 97,53S; total, 26S, 483
Iores. Citrus, bearing. 1891 acres;
ion-bearing. 29,334: total, 1921
cres. Nuts, bearing. 12,419 acres;
lon-bearing. 9s77; total, a1,796 acres.
brand total. 276, 500 acres. In de,
iduous fruits the Irune leads with
6.S72 acres in bearing, and $3.50
ores non-bearing. The peach is a good
econd with Si,207 acres in bearing,
nd 26,4l9 non-bearing. In citrus
ruits the lemon is credited with 2s04 ,
ores in bearing, and $685. acres non. ,
caring. The remainder Of the total
itrus acreage Of 46.2sl acres is all :
orange. In nuts the almond leads.
nth 1908 acres in bearing, and 64s9
on bearing. Walnuts are credited
nth 240O acres bearing. and 1898
ores non-bearing. The Chronicle saws Q
no figures show from what trifiing Q
ortion Of the area of the State have
ome the fruits which have made il 40 I
lmous. the area Of arabic land in Cal.
'oInia being about "a, 000, 1000 acres.