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the rate of from forty to sixty bushels per acre and is the finest I [have?] ever seen, and as for onions and cabbage I can [only?] say that they grow larger and [nicer?] than I ever knew they could. I have only seen one variety of apples here and they were very small but very pleasant to the [taste?] and I suspect that if the right kind of fruit could be introduced it would succeed very well. Pears thrive wonderfully and the trees attain great size. All along the lower part of that valley the [?] is successfully cultivated although I am told that the grape crop is not always a [scarce?] one. The Mexicans manufacture some from them and it is one of the