Mr. H.B. Eastman, writing from Lewiston, Trin-ity Co;, Cal., under date of January 1, 1962, says of the then recent flood:

"The past six weeks I have had my hands full in trying to clear up the wreck caused by a most disastrous flood. You will have seen accounts of it in the California papers, and I will here say that the subscribers have felt its sad effects in all except life and limb. Our bouse, stands upon what, in ordinary times, looks like quite an elevation, yet the river came within four feet of the house. Peach and Apple trees seven years old and twenty feet high, and standing npon ground that the waters has never before reached since the white men have been here, were this time all covered up with the flood. It was a hard sight to look on them, and it is not much better yet. Our whole nursery stock is buried from two to three feet deep with mud, which will, of course, have to be dug out and moved. A large portion of our last summer's budding of Apples and Pears, and a great many small things that will be difficult to find, and of larger things we (my brother and myself) had something near a thousand standard Apple and Pear trees planted out three years ago, but which at the present time are are according to directions of 'Downing' or the HORTICULTURIST, for most of them are at least two feet deeper than they grew in the nursery, or in the field either, two months ago.

We have them all to move, and next time will get them above 'high water mark.' I do not intend to get discouraged, though things do sometimes look a little blue. We have a fine climate to live in, and only one drawback to fruit culture to contend with; that is, late frost in the spring. Since I have been here, now eleven years the thermometer has never been at a lower mark than 8 deg. above zero, Fahr. In summer it is frequently up to 112 deg., yet the heat is not oppressive here as it is in the Eastern States we always have cool nights. I prise your Grape Articles very highly, and shall fallow your directions as well as loan. I believe most of the American Grapes are hardy here." This is a sad picture, but we hope the mud may have so enriched your ground as to compensate you in some measure for all your loss and labor. If you follow our directions in Grape culture, we can promise you nothing but success.