. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Varieties Approved 176 California Fruits : The ripe apricot is sometimes seriously assailed by the diabrotica, a small green beetle, with twelve black spots upon its wing covers. Driving the insects away with smoke smudges has been used to some extent. For- tunately, the insect only occasionally occurs in large numbers. VARIETIES OF THE APRICOT. Though nearly all standard varieties of the apricot have been introduced and planted in this State, comparatively few are found on Varieties approved by California growers. VARIETIES. Bergetti Bl
. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Varieties Approved 176 California Fruits : The ripe apricot is sometimes seriously assailed by the diabrotica, a small green beetle, with twelve black spots upon its wing covers. Driving the insects away with smoke smudges has been used to some extent. For- tunately, the insect only occasionally occurs in large numbers. VARIETIES OF THE APRICOT. Though nearly all standard varieties of the apricot have been introduced and planted in this State, comparatively few are found on Varieties approved by California growers. VARIETIES. Bergetti Blenheim Early Golden Early Moorpark Hemskirke Large Early Large Early Montgamet Luizet Moorpark Newcastle Oullin's Early Peach Royal Routier's Peach Spark's Mammoth St. Ambroise Tilton Wiggin's vSeedling Centra coast valleys 'm'^"°''h Southern â foot'hms California the lists of the orchard planters. Many local seedlings have been brought to notice and propagated to some extent but are less used now than twelve years ago, and the disposi- tion is to restrict planting to a few old vari- eties. There is, however, still a need of new varieties combining size, quality and regular bearing. As with most other fruits, some varieties are found to succeed wherever con- ditions favor the fruit at all; other varieties succeed in some regions and not in others. Our table of varieties for the diiTerent coun- ties shows this fact, and an attempt will be made to make the showing more explicit by notes in connection with the mention of each variety. In the following statement the arrangement is approximately in the order of ripening, and the descriptions are from Downing, with additions and changes to meet local observa- tion : VARIETIES OF FOREIGN ORIGIN. Large Early.âA French variety; fruit of medium size, rather oblong and compressed; suture deep, skin slightly downy; pale orange in the shade, fine bright orange with a few ruddy spots in the sun; flesh separating readily from the st
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