The California culturist . he 24th of May. when it marked nineteen feet above zero on the river guage. Sincethis date the Sacramento river has been slowly subsiding, and now stands (1st June) at seventeen feet andeight inches above low water mark. Whether or not the prolonged cold, damp weather will exercise a blighting influence upon the fruit crop,remains yet to be proved. As far as our information extends, the cereals have been damaged in only a fewlimited districts by the floods;—although we regret to hear that the smut has made its appearance in somelocalities. At the same time we are ple
The California culturist . he 24th of May. when it marked nineteen feet above zero on the river guage. Sincethis date the Sacramento river has been slowly subsiding, and now stands (1st June) at seventeen feet andeight inches above low water mark. Whether or not the prolonged cold, damp weather will exercise a blighting influence upon the fruit crop,remains yet to be proved. As far as our information extends, the cereals have been damaged in only a fewlimited districts by the floods;—although we regret to hear that the smut has made its appearance in somelocalities. At the same time we are pleased to perceive that the berry crop, although a month behind theusual time, was never more abundant, and never more highly flavored. As it is probable the rainy seasonis now over, we annex the following summary, which will afford a comparative view of the amount otrain which has fallen :—1853^1, inches; 1854-5, inches; 1855-6, inches; 1866-7, inches;1857-8, inches; 1858-9, LAWRENCES FAVORITE THE CULTURIST. AUGUST, 1859. r REASONS FOR OUH OPINION. N the initiative of our first volume, we assumed the position that, in a country so_|_ new in all its general characteristics of soil, climate and productions as is thePacific coast, there must, of necessity, be much variation from what has been regardedas the established theories and fixed laws of agriculture in other portions of theworld; that a new system, to some extent, of cultivating and managing the soil andits growing products, seems almost indispensable. By a few, our position has been assailed, and we have been reminded that we oughtto know better than to advocate such doctrines ; that the general principles applicableto a proper cultivation of the soil are alike in all countries, and that to attempt tointroduce innovations merely because we are in a country new to civilization is assum-ing a little too much. We admit that, to all those who can see no difference in ourclimat
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