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Show " "C.1UH)RNIA GRAPES. j THEY ARE GROWN IN NEARLY EVERY PART OF THE STATE. ? rbore I un Area of 400,000 Acrrn la It Vines In tit Vulteri fitHts The Vroil-uct Vroil-uct In 40,000.000 fjallous of Wins ml 320,000 Tuna of Tallin Grapes. "I httvo no doubt that it will surprise even ftrnpe rind wine growers themselves to know that there are invented in vineyards vine-yards and wino cellars in the United States over !.w,(0(1.i.'h,- said Col. H. Giirlner, pneciai agent (if the census ofiico for tho collection of statistics volutin;? vo-lutin;? to viticulture, a branch of ni?ri-cnltni'e ni?ri-cnltni'e which bus :i"ver before received nny ofiicial al Icntiuti in tlii.i country. "I find by stai istics, which (ire now collected col-lected for the first tiino."' said Col. Gardner, Gard-ner, "that there aro in round muuners 400,000 acres of land in this country planted to vineyards. for it deemed so easy to grow the Zinfan-1 Zinfan-1 del that everybody planted vineyards, j When they began to bear they bore with ; a vengeance. The markets became j choked with grapes, and prices went 1 down to disastrous figures. It became apparent that tho Ziufa'idel was an inferior in-ferior grape after all, and to cap the cli- was tlm phylloxera camp down on the Hungarian importation arid bore it away, Vineyard after vineyard..' f "No new vineyards were replanted with tho Zinfandel, uiid tho vine is bo iug replaced with tho choicest and hardiest hardi-est varieties of wine grapes from tho famous fa-mous districts of Europe, including Cabernet Cab-ernet Sanvignon, Carbanet Franc, Mal-bock, Mal-bock, Tarnat, Merlot and St. Laurent Irapes from the Bordeaux districts; AlaUtrns grapes from Pulos; Seniillous und Kauviguons from Kanteruc; Pinot and Petite Sirrah grapes from the Burgundy Bur-gundy districts; Johannisbergers, Tra-uiiners Tra-uiiners and Franken Rieslings from the storied Rhine; Chasselos grapes from Alsace-Lorraine, and tho rich Burgers from Moselle. It is from these grapes that the wines of California are pressed. "Tho famous Challoso and Folle parents made such fierce objections to hit being married by a priest of the Catholic faithhat he weakened. Soon after lie went south and remained there several months. A short time ago he returnad n'l wrt his former sweetheart. 1h4. res had not left her cheeks, .and if sljo elt aggrieved ag-grieved at the shabbyArick that haul been played uon lier ulLc, did net show it. She met Nichols and welcomed him back to Shacks'iush. Apparently mat ters were soon arranged satisfactorily satisfacto-rily to both parties, for it was soon noised about the settlement that "Jay Nichols and "KIP Henrihan were goin' together agin." Wednesday evening last everything was in readiness a second time for the wedding. The Rev. Mr. Embey, a Protestant clergyman, had been secured to tie the knot. The young people were all ready in the parsonage, and had just joined hands, when a gruff voice cried out, "Break away," and instinctively in-stinctively Jay dropped Ella's hand. Tho young lady went to the door, met her brother and Harvey George, and bidding her faint hearted lover good night, left him standing alone in the parlor of the parsonage with the dominie who was to have performed tho ceremony. ceremo-ny. There is but one sentiment in the community, and that is that Nichols j was served just right. Lakeside Press. "This is nn increase of 220.000 ncros in vineyard aroa during tho past ton yuars, and an i'lcroiiHu of over sJlO.OOO.OOO a year in tho capital invested. Of tho area of bearing vines in tho country California slono haa l.Vi.000 acres, in finding 25.000 acres of raiti:i grapes. That statu nlso has of tho total investmrr.t of capital nearly $?.0;ii,i!00. Between 30,O0O,0iH) und 40.ni0,00n fjaiions of wino lira made in tho United States in a year, of which California produces more than half. Eeven-eishthsof the grapes of California, go to tho wiuu pre. Four-fifths of tho graphs grown in ail the rest of tho United Stales are for tablo use. California Cali-fornia alone grows tho raisin grape. "I spent three month in California Riving official attention to its viticnltural interesis. Although every county in the ptate produces grapes, the principal counties of tho vino are Napa. Sonoma, Fresno, Santa Clara, San Diego. Sau !Barnardina and Los Angeles, although there aro many others of more or less importance. Tho countii-s of Fresno, ; San Paniardino, San Diego and Tulare compriso the great raisin district, and , euro 2,000,000 boxes a year, a product ; Blanche, cognac gras, aro also largely gr.'Avn, tho wine from them being made into brandy. Then thero aro tiio rich Spanish Jluscats and tho favorite Hungarian Hun-garian table grape, tho Flaming Tokay. In no other vino region in tho world are all the-so splendid grapes found growing side by side, and they make of California the wonderland of the vine. "California has the largest vineyard in tho world and tho most extensive wino cellar. The vineyard is in Tehama cmnty, on Senator Lehind Stanford's famous 50,000 acre farm. It contains 4,000 acres. "Among the curiosities of the California Califor-nia grape region is a vineyard that may well bo called tho smallest in tho world as regards tho number of vines, for it hi.j but. one vine. That is a most remarkable re-markable one, however, for its branches extend over a space of 12,000 feet, tho cane being a foot in diameter. This extraordinary ex-traordinary vinoisover seventy years old, and was grown from an old mission cut-ti cut-ti ng by a Mexican woman. It has home frrapes every year since it was two years old, and is good now they claim for six tons of grapes a 5-ear. I was told that clusters weighing seven pounds had been picked from tiiis ancient relic of the mission days. "The phylloxera, which during the past, few years playod great havoc wilh California vineyards, is being gradually but surely overcome. Tho inferior varieties of grapes ujion which the pest feeds are being rooted out, and, the choice foreign varieties, which aro spb-jeet spb-jeet to it, aro protected against it by grafting on native wild varieties, known as resistant vines, or vines which the phylloxera does not aii'ect." New York Sun. I worth at least $3,000,000. The grapes j 1 grown for raisins are tho Muscat of ; 1 Alexandria and the Muscat did Oardo I Blanco. These counties prow larjjre t I quantities of wine grapes also, and tho j I sweet wines of California como princi- I pally from that district. Fresno county 1 has 2),000 acres of vineyards, Sonoma I 21,000 and Napa 16,000. I "The grapes grown in California to- I day include every variety that has , made llio vineyards of Europe famous I J The cultivation of tho grape in Califor- I nia dates back to tho days of the old 1 Spanish friars, tho Franciscan fathers, I who brought with them from their na- I : tiva land cuttings of a grape popular I there. Just what the true name of the 1 ' grapo was nobody seems to know now, I and very few care, for while there are I jn bearing today some of the vineyards I or vines set out by the jolly Franciscans J a century or more ago, the grape ia not . in high esteem nowadays. It has al- I ways been known as the mission grapo i "The old mission vineyard supplied I grapes for the table and the wine press ! in California until a comparatively short 1 time ago. Then a Hungarian grape 5- known as the Zinfandel was introduced. This newcomer was handsome, proved to bo a generous producer, und took the jwpnlar heart. ; "It proved to be an unfortunate one, ; 'J |