STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. ".I, 1 .! 



shine and perpetual Spring" that is so much the boast of Italy's fail- 

 defenders is in the imagination only of the writers. 



Our Winter temperature for the valley, as a whole, is exactly the same 

 as the Winter temperature for that portion of Italy where orange, lemon, 

 and olive trees abound in all tropical luxuriance, while the average yearly 

 temperature for our valley is 1.6° warmer than the average yearly tempera- 

 ture for Italy. This demonstrates that our Spring and Fall temperatures 

 are warmer than the Italian. 



FINALLY. 



Fresh fruits of some kind we have in market every day of Winter; fresh 

 vegetables every day the year round; strawberries every month of Winter 

 are in market; our heat is not enervating, for our atmosphere is dry, and 

 therefore 80° in Summer here would represent 100° as experienced at the 

 East; our latitude is not representative of climatic conditions on like par- 

 allels on the Atlantic side, for the isothermal lines, as examination of a 

 physical geography will disclose to the reader, flow to us representative of 

 the climates of southern France and Italy at their best. The isotherm of 

 New York sweeps away north of us, touching the coast at Vancouver 

 Island. Says Dr. Robertson in his climatic monograph: 



" Nature draws isotherms in her distribution of trees and plants. While, 

 on the eastern coast, 60° is the northern limit of coniferae, they are found 

 as high as (58° and 70° in regions adjoining the Pacific. It is thus evident 

 that the climate of Northern California is much more temperate than that 

 of the Eastern States, which are situated in the same latitude." 



Our eastern friends who come to Winter in the sunshine and Spring-like 

 atmosphere of our valleys and foothills will be deprived of some pleasures. 

 They cannot enjoy sleigh riding or coasting, for we have no snow; they 

 cannot revel in the delights of skating, for we have no ice. 



INTERESTING ISOTHERMAL MAPS OF CALIFORNIA. 



The following article is from the citrus edition of the Daily and Weekly 

 Bee, written by Mr. W. A. Lawson of the editorial staff. In conjunction 

 with the four maps it will give the reader an excellent idea of the climate 

 of the semi-tropical regions of the State of California: 



The State of California has numerous climatic peculiarities that excite 

 surprise in the minds of visitors. Her territory extends through ten degrees 

 of latitude, but the mean temperature or rainfall at any given point is not 

 to be determined by its latitude. The Sierra Nevada Range of mountains 

 on the east, and the Coast Range on the Avest, unite to form a great interior 

 valley three hundred and fifty miles in length. The southern portion of 

 this great basin is drained by the San Joaquin River, and is known as the 

 San Joaquin Valley, and the northern portion, drained by the Sacramento 

 River, is known as the Sacramento Valley. These rivers (one flowing 

 northward, the other southward) unite in the heart of the State, and 

 together their waters flow onward to the Golden Gate. The means of 

 temperature at the different places in this interior basin do not vary to 



any material extent. The hills of the Coast Range and of the Sierra 



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