. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. The Picholine, reduced. tober in the interior valley and in November in coast valleys. Mancanitto No. i.—Imported by F. Pohndorff from Spain, large regular rounded oval; pit straight, strongly pointed at the apex, nine-si.\teenths of an inch long, five-sixteenths of an inch thick. Ripens Gordal.—.'V popular pickling diuhi .size, earlv. Spain,. Manzanillo Olive. Rtibyci—Imported by John Rock from France; ovate, slightly oblique, looks a good deal like a sinal! Mission olive; pit straight, pointed; ripens three to four weeks earlier than t
. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. The Picholine, reduced. tober in the interior valley and in November in coast valleys. Mancanitto No. i.—Imported by F. Pohndorff from Spain, large regular rounded oval; pit straight, strongly pointed at the apex, nine-si.\teenths of an inch long, five-sixteenths of an inch thick. Ripens Gordal.—.'V popular pickling diuhi .size, earlv. Spain,. Manzanillo Olive. Rtibyci—Imported by John Rock from France; ovate, slightly oblique, looks a good deal like a sinal! Mission olive; pit straight, pointed; ripens three to four weeks earlier than the common Mission variety; is of a jet black when ripe. This tree begins to fruit quite young, and is a prolific bearer. Very hardy and prolific even in dry. situations. .llroi' ble for oil. -Medium size, black, chietlv valua- Uz'cviii.—Imported by John Rock from France. Oval, , and rounded on both ends; pit straight, heavy, late; later than the eonmion Mis- sion olive; color dark purple or black when ripe. The name, "grape-like," is well chosen, the fruit growing in clusters, as many as seven together, and in shape themselves resembling the grape. Very Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wickson, Edward James, 1848- [from old catalog]. San Francisco, The Pacific rural press
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