Biennial Report (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SUPPLEMENT TO THE REPORT OF SECRETARY. The Olive: Varieties, Opinions, Mission vs. Picholine, Pendoulier. Japanese Plums: Sat- suma and Kelsey. The Orange: Valencia Late, Maltese Blood, Paper Rind St. Michael, Mediterranean Sweet, Wolfskin's Best, Satsuma, Pomelo, Bidwetl's Bar Orange. The Lemon: Curing of, Processes, Sulphuring, Budding, Renewing Old Trees, Budding into Large Limbs. Diseases of the Orange and Lemon: Remedy; Cause of Gum Disease. Cutting the Top of Gum Diseased Trees. Pruning: Advantages of Low Trained Trees; Extending the Roots of Trees in Planting. Plums and Prunes: Nomenclature of Prunes; French Prune Driers. The Apricot in France. How Prunes Should be Handled; Flattening of Prunes; Naming our Prunes. The Apricot: Soil and Climate, Varieties, The Shot Hole Fungus, Propagation and Planting. The Peach: Its Culture and Marketing, What to Plant. Table Grape Culture. Crystallized Fruits: The Method. Fruit Drying. THE OLIVE. The culture of the olive has become one of the regular industries of this State, and of the great future which awaits it there is no doubt. Olive oil making cannot be overdone; as the production increases so will the demand, and there cannot be enough produced to supply the demand for many years to come. Many new plantations have been started all over the State, and many more would have been started if the trees or cuttings could have been obtained. In the interior valleys many large olive orchards have been planted; these trees are young, and many have begun to bear fruit this year. There is no doubt that in a few years there will be an abundance of olive oil produced in this State, as all these plantations are doing exceedingly well, and are planted on soil well adapted to their culture. Varieties. At present there are but two...