The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-19
FRUITS IN VARIETY.


production Of good inter- apples, and planting
is progressing IN all those districts.
FRUITS IN VARIETY.
Information about the apple is fol-
lowed by facts anent other fruits. Short
extracts of general interest follow:
California has bout s.GOd,eCo apricot trees.
which stand IN the open air without irottc-
That sHri, OF trees can do this coustit-t,s one
Of the uniuue features Of California truit
growing and Droclaims II different ir9m frult
growing in other states. point OF adEahiaee
with tie APRICOT. as with the pear and peach
IN less extent with the nectarine anu
plum is that il has three great lines OF de-
Inand: First Us fresh fruit OF which 81 car
loads shipped 70 Eastern markets last
year; second. canned fruit. with a product
of 64S. ZIG cases, each containing two dozen
dried apricofs Nearly 3 GOO 90 apricot trees
are growing In California: counties having
more than 100000 trees each are as follows:
Santa Clara. Solano, Ventura. Los -4nse.ss
ciafely a?pr,sleh that limit some of thcs,
counties are 500 miles apart and their success
with the apricot shows how widely suitable
locations are distributed ever the State.
There arc about $50 600 cherry trees in Cali
fornia, of which Santa Clara. Alameda, fuoa
ana solano have the largest paintings merry
drying has never largely prevailed I'm Caiifor-
mia. The shipment Of fresh fruit TO the East
has overcome ita chief difficulties and is now
rapidly ircreasing-the shipment of 1905 ag-
gregating more than 200 carloads. cherries
are constantly growing IN volume rs canned
fruit. the product OF 1903 being about 100000
cases. me acreage at ne present time Is ex
tending on tine bass IS Of the improving snip
The peach has q very wide range in Cali
forn;a. It goes beyond the apricot IN the
hes de the apricot wherever the latter thrives
in. the interior. rises thousand feet above 1t
on the foothills and goes lower on the plains
into the frosted areas with less danger
MILLIONS OF TREES.
-Four counties-Placer. Fresno. Tehama and
Santa Clara-have more than 1000 trees
each, white tnga. Ssiallp. ooiuIr.., ru.a4s
have More than zoo. 100 trees each About ten
other counties 81 above the iC0ol0 mark The
California peach. though II IS now eminent,
has greater future before IT,
growth of pears the most popular market sorts
in greater beauty and volume than they can be
California pear has commanded wide attention
in dstnnt parts OF the United States, and.
prices for thc fresh fruit in the London mar
ket; ~ the pear stands next and very
being shipped out of the state. in 1DC3. The
pear also is high in canning. the product be-
ing 42S,S 31 cases; In drying, the same Is true.
the normal annual output is about G,000.0O0
pounds. The pear resembies the peach in lis
wide range over coast valley. interior valley
and fonthill situations. but 1t extends beyond
the peach. for II goes to an altitude Of 5000
lowest places in ire valleys for neither frost
standing water can avail against it.
FORESTS OF CALIFORNIA.
w. II. NILS has very valuable
essay on the forests of California in
which he-says:
conservative approximation of the guam
tity of understandable lumber standing in the
forests OF California reaches the vast total of
four hundred and forty billion feet Since the
forests of California are found In the noun
famous districts of the State, the topography
of the ffoors Of these forests possess interest.
Topography Is the controlling factor in the
economic production OF lumber from California
forests These forested lands divided into
photographic districts In the commercial
aspect Of the subject the catchment area of a
system makes all the forests grown upon il
tributary to the canyon line which consti-
tutes the central drainage of that hydrographic
area In the parlance OF the lumbermen the
lands in single drainage can usually
be worked together: which means that the
fnstrurentalitIes OF bringing the logs to the
mill and the lumber TO trunk lines can be
brought downward TO the central line of drain
age and the construction and maintenance of
these instrumentalities Is very costly. The
profit OF numbering is. therefore, largely de-
pendent upon the magnitude of the enterprise
relating to these photographic districts.
At least seventy-hye per cent of the forest
floors OF California are incline planes. and OF
these planes at least sixty per cent have a
decliyity of twenty degrees.
The space allotted TO this article in this pub
lication will not admit of any extended dis
cussion as to the effects of forests upon the
climate of California or the influence denu-
dalton would have upon the meteorological
conditions OF the State; but IL will be accepted
as a pardonable depression to call attention
to the very obvious fact that since seventy
FIVE per cent of the forest areas OF California
are found uDon inclines of from fifteen to
thirty degrees, the absence of the forests will
cause the soil upon these slopes to disappear
The heavy rainfall OF the region will erode
these declivities and very soon lay the UNDER
lying bedrock bare. The soil floor of the forests
having disappeared. Its reservoir capacity VIII