Prices reasonable; given on application for both one and two-year old rooted vines. Will also send sample of raisins, if desired.
Described by Prof. Eisen.
In a communication to California, a Journal of Rural Industry, May No., 1890, entitled “With the Fruit Growers in Sutter County,” Prof. Eisen thus refers to Mr. Stabler, and his work: “Mr. B. G. Stabler makes a specialty of dried peaches and seedless raisins, and has succeeded well with both. The principal raisin-grape of this vicinity is the little-known seedless grape, Lady Decoverly, here known as the Thompson Seedless, he being the first to grow it. Years ago, about 1872, this gentleman saw advertised in an Eastern Catalogue a seedless grape, said to come from Constantinople, and was called the Lady Decoverly. It proved to be very different from the common Sultana, being of yellow color, and of oblong shape. It is certainly strange that this singular variety of grape should have existed here so many years, and failed to attract general attention. It is an enormous bearer, heavier even than the Sultana, and ripens early in August. It makes very choice raisins for cooking purposes. The color is similar to that of the Muscatel, and makes a raisin of beautiful color. Among other novelties in the way of fruit, Mr. Stabler has a Chance Seedling Apricot, which promises to be something extraordinary. It is not yet in bearing, * * * but think of apricot leaves six inches in diameter, and limbs many times as long and strong as those of ordinary apricot trees,” etc.
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TO RENT AND FOR SALE.
75,000 ACRES OF WHEAT AND SUGAR-BEET LAND in the above counties to rent for a term of years; also 100,000 acres of fine Raisin, Fruit, Alfalfa and Sugar-Beet Land, with water for irrigation, for sale in tracts of from twenty acres to large tracts suitable for colony purposes.