The California horticulturist and floral magazine . iety of other marine productions, andsmall stones or pebbles are found intheir maws. The females have greataffection for their young. Many yearsago they were killed with the ordinaryseal-club, and large numbers formerlygathered on the coast of Indians use spears attached tolines to kill them with. At the presenttime the number taken annually isabout 150,000. The price of the skinsin Europe average $8 to $9 each. American Pomological Society.—Wetake much pleasure in notifying ourfruit brethren of the Pacific Coast thatthis natio
The California horticulturist and floral magazine . iety of other marine productions, andsmall stones or pebbles are found intheir maws. The females have greataffection for their young. Many yearsago they were killed with the ordinaryseal-club, and large numbers formerlygathered on the coast of Indians use spears attached tolines to kill them with. At the presenttime the number taken annually isabout 150,000. The price of the skinsin Europe average $8 to $9 each. American Pomological Society.—Wetake much pleasure in notifying ourfruit brethren of the Pacific Coast thatthis national institution holds its nextbiennial meeting at Chicago, Sept. 8th,9th, and 10th. We trust that our or-chardists will respond handsomely andenergetically to this call, by sending agood delegation with the best speci-mens of California fruits to that impor-tant meeting of national president is that most worthy andenlightened amateur horticulturist andfruit culturist, Honorable Marshall 92 THE CALIFORNIA ElTBEEA NdSSEBY, NEAB GOLDEN GATE PaBK. The above engraving shows the neatand handsome establishment and re-constructed greenhouses of E. Meter,proprietor of the Eureka Nursery, nearGolden Gate Park. Mr. Meyer is oneof our foremost nurserymen and notice of his catalogue on another page. ? ? PERSONAL. Mr. F. .A Miller, of the firm of Mil-ler & Sievers, will in a few days departfor the East and Europe, for the pur-pose of visiting and examining all theleading nurseries and public object of his visit is the introduc-tion into California of all plants, orna-mental as well as useful, which maycome favorably to his notice and whichmay be adapted to this coast. He willvisit the following cities: Chicago, , Philadelphia, Washington, NewYork, and Rochester; and will thenproceed to Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin,Erfurt, Dresden, Frankfort, Baden,Haarlem, Ghent, Paris, and we are not mistaken, his journeywill
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