The California horticulturist and floral magazine (1870) (14596510639)

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Title: The California horticulturist and floral magazine

Year: 1870 (1870s)

Authors: Bay District Horticultural Society

Subjects: Fruit-culture Gardening

Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : F.A. Miller & Co.

Contributing Library: California State Library

Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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,if desirable, with but a limited amountof money. Several of our foot - hillfarmers have been engaged in makingraisins on a small scale for severalyears, and they all agree that it is botha pleasant and profitable pursuit. Theearly rains last fall destroyed the bulkof the raisins then in process of drying,but such rains are an unusual occur-rence. From different ones who havehad some experience, we glean the fol-lowing facts in reference to the busi-ness : The Muscat of Alexandria is thebest Grape for raisins, and those grownin the foot-hills, with little or no irriga-gation, are the best. Any of the foot-hill lands will produce the Grape, andthe only irrigation required is while thevine is gaining a start. Lands suitablefor vines can be bought for $2.50 to $5an acre. It will cost from $15 to $25per acre to clear and fence, but land al-ready under cultivation can be boughtfor about that sum. The vines are usu-ally propagated from cuttings, by thevineyardist, and, at one year old, when

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►J < «s!fc C/3 C 5 H O&H J< W THE CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURIST. 89 ready to transplant, will cost about threecents each. If bought at that age, how-ever, they will generally cost five cents.They should be set six feet apart eachway, giving about 1,200 vines to theacre. The cultivation is the same givento Corn and Potatoes, and the betterand more thorough it is the larger thecrop. The Muscat begins bearing veryearly, and after its fourth year, if proper-ly attended to, may be counted on forabout fifteen pounds to the vine, orabout eight tons to the acre. In dry-ing, the Grapes lose three-fifths of theirweight, one hundred pounds of freshGrapes making forty pounds of raisins.H. B. Allen, living six miles east ofRockland, in the foot-hills of this coun-ty, has been engaged in a small way forseveral years in making raisins from theMuscat. Being engaged in gardeningand fruit-growing, he sells his productto his neighbors, and readily gets 16fcents per pound at wholesale. At thatra

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