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the first season once more than I did my orange trees, I should have 

 doubled the amount of my crop and produced a better lemon. Have 

 had very little disease among my lemons, and attribute their liealth- 

 fulness to the fact that I have never allowed the water to touch the 

 trees. Tliink that Dr. Conger, at Pasadena, may get along with less 

 water than we can here, but the treatment he gives his trees would 

 injure them seriously in the drier air of San Bernardino County. It 

 will not do to establish one rule for the treatment of the lemon in all 

 sections. In the coast region, where there is a heavy dew almost 

 every summer night, with thorough cultivation infrequent irrigating 

 maj'' answer; but in this valley, where one summer night in tw^enty 

 no perceptible dew falls, and where the sun shines unobstructed 

 from sunrise to sunset, a more plentiful use of water is an actual 

 necessitj", and a plan which will serve excellently where water is ten 

 or fifteen feet from the surface is manifestly absurd to insist upon 

 where the roots could not reach it in sixty feet. The fact is, a man 

 must water his trees, and when they appear to need water give it 

 them. Theories are well; systems in work are necessary, but a little 

 common sense will also be found to be a valuable thing to make use 

 of about the farm. 



The hall was again densely packed on Wednesday evening, when 

 the discussion was opened by J. DeBarth Shorb, of San Gabriel, 

 President of the Southern California Horticultural Society, who read 

 the following: 



Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Executive Commit- 

 tee : To write an article on " The comparative values of grape grow- 

 ing for wine and raisins, and orange growing, taking the markets of 

 the future as a basis of comparison," is, I confess, no easy task, and 

 to do the subject proper justice, would consume more time than this 

 occasion would warrant. 



This is a problem in which many considerations will necessarily 

 enter; in which so many outside influences will exercise control; in 

 which the prosperity of the entire country and world will have effect; 

 in which Federal legislation and hobbies of people must play an 

 important part; in which a wide and liberal, or selfish and contracted 

 policy of our transportation masters must, perforce, be so important 

 a factor; that any opinion or judgment, written or spoken, must 

 occupy the position of a conjecture only, and must be taken as such 

 with all due allowances. 



Apart from these considerations, it is difficult to draw a comparison 

 between two great leading and important interests; when their rela- 

 tive values are new, so dissimilar, and again, in some respects, so 

 much alike. 



With all the productions of the soil, like manufactures and the 

 precious metals themselves, the law of supply and demand prevails. 

 This law of supply and demand means, not only the quantities pro- 

 duced and the extent of the people and buyers, but also what it costs 

 to reach them. 



The wants of all have grown marvellously alike npw-a-days, while 

 the capacity to pay for what they want is as widely different as at any 

 past period of the world's history. 



The question of people — great consumers — no longer means to the 

 producer contiguity to dense centers of population; it means cheap 



