Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-28

come to the San Francisco market. of
course. are what they call pound pears. but
nave seen them weighing two and a half
pounds"
At a recent convention of fruit growers
held In Pomona. f. p Fowler of Paradise
valley exhibited a remarkable assortment
on oetormed and abnormal oranges. One
OF these deformities looked for all lhe
world like pair of Jenness Millers patent
Iegiets- At the same convention a farmer
named +. Schulenberg OF Claremont ey-
nipited variety of strawberries known as
the Triumph lie Grande" measuring three
inches IN diameter
AT kelsey's orchard. near Santa Bar
para. Is a remarkable plum tree known as
me me Japan plum. which was planted in 1876.
me fruit Is heart-shaped and of a rio n
yellow color. The plums from this tree are
frequently from eight to ten inches in cir
conference.
Probably there is not a spot in California
more prolific of enormous vegetable growth
than santa Rosa. Here is located the
mammoth rose tree already mentioned.
Ihere are score of dwellings in the
vicinity completely empowered with roses
while fuchias are trained like vines
IN Los Angeles III. l.. Baker of Union
street displays rose bush which has
reached height of sixteen feet. GRATED
upon It's branches are twelve varieties of
roses. The parent stalk is twelve wears ~
age Inc stalk. a few inches above the
ground, is five inches in circumference.
.. m. OF ontario recently discovered a
monstrous apple blossom on one OF the
trees IN his orchard. The blossom. which
resembles large sized rose measures nine
ana half inches in circumference and is
what may be called a second-crop blossom
An ordinary apple blossom contains five
petals, while this one has thirty or forty
Inc Dig grape vine at Montecito near San
ia Barbara. is famous The vine was nIant-
ed ABOUT fcrty years ago. The grapes are
OF the MISSION variety. The parent stalk is
Iorty-slx inches in circumference one foot
from the ground. Where il commences tn
branch. three feet from the ground tts
crcumierence is sixty-three inches The
; nhe slsIoed -FOUR and half tons of grapes
III single season. The vine covers an
area OF 100 by 20 feet. Some years ago
a photographer. in looking about the got
oeH state Tor views, came across "a giant
cactus near Los Angeles the trunk of
which was six feet four inches in circum-
ference He also found in the same yJcjni-
Pampas plumes growing to the height of
At the rooms OF the state board of trade
IN San Francisco some remarkable products
OF Caiifornia soil are on exhibition Last
year, when the season was well advanced
pumpkins weighing 267 pounds were upon
eHhlpition there. There were also cab
pages weighing ninety-five pounds. onions
tnat tipped the scales at five pounds and .
huge sweet potato, raised near Santa Ana
mat weighed twenty-five pounds. Apples
weighing twenty ounces are frequently on
eAhipition and a fve-gallon glass lar con-
ains eight pears. the weight of which Is
tnirty-tnree and one-third pounds These
eight pears completely fill the fiye-eaiIon
sS. a, rioWering plants grow to enormous
SIZE IN all parts of the state Florists saw
eney nave seen lilies IN California fourteen
rect high, while geraniums that ,ooL M
trees ere common "S