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little. Therefore most of the nonbearing trees reported have been planted 

 5 or more years, while the reverse is true of California. Most of the 

 orange trees in that state reported as nonbearing have been planted since 

 1886, and very many of them during the census year. 



Arizona makes quite a showing of young orange trees, the mere begin- 

 ning of a new industry there, where soil and climate seem well adapted to 

 the perfect development of citrus fruits, and with an abundance of water for 

 irrigation the development is likely to be rapid. In November, 1890, the 

 special agent found in the Salt river valley preparations being made to 

 plant more than 1,000 acres of oranges alone within 15 miles of the city of 

 Phenix, and was told that the planting would soon begin in other sections 

 on equally as large a scale, thus developing still another great " orange 

 belt." However, the time of ripening of the fruit in the different "belts" 

 is such as not to materially interfere with each other. .Florida and Louis- 

 iana begin harvesting their crops the last of October or early in Novem- 

 ber; northern California and Arizona in December and January, while 

 southern California comes in February and March and continues well into 

 the summer, and with the perfection of earlier varieties for Florida and of 

 still later or longer keeping ones for southern California there is reason to 

 believe that the United States will in time eat its own grown, freshly 

 picked oranges throughout the year. 



A few trees of pomegranate, kaki, guava. pecan, pomelo, lemon, lime, fig, 

 date, and banana were found growing for the family supply about farm and 

 town homes within the semitropic belt, which may be roughly said to 

 extend as far north as Charleston on the Atlantic coast and to the thirty- 

 first parallel of latitude along the gulf coast, southwest Arizona, and in 

 California as far north as the fortieth parallel, in full sight of Mount 

 Shasta, with its perpetual snow and ice. Of course, it must not be under- 

 stood that all semitropic fruits and nuts can be grown in all the country as 

 far north as indicated, yet the kaki, fig, and pecan can be grown to a con- 

 siderable extent outside of the limits indicated. Figs and almonds are 

 grown to some extent in Oregon and Washington, olives on the Virgin 

 river, in southern Nevada, and pecans in all the southern states. A few 

 madeira nuts are also reported as growing on river bottom lands in 

 Arkansas. 



In addition to the home supply of fruits and nuts mentioned there were 

 found growing 13,515 acres of almond trees, 677.50 of banana, 169.88 of 

 citron, 9,864 of cocoanut, 4,477 of fig, 550 of guava, 1,362.25 of kaki, 7,256 

 of lemon, 495.58 of lime, 12,180 of madeira nut, 7,097 of olive, 184,003 of 

 orange, 2,189.50 of pineapple, 171.89 of pomelo, and 27,419.50 of pecan 

 trees, representing 658,566 bearing and 800,010 nonbearing almond trees, 

 577,782 bearing banana plants, 4,237 bearing and 14,110 nonbearing citron 

 trees, 123,227 bearing and 1,199,549 nonbearing cocoanut trees. 138,186 

 bearing and 285,201 nonbearing fig trees, 32,943 bearing and 120,529 non- 

 bearing guava trees, 58,390 bearing and 124,522 nonbearing kaki trees, 

 167,663 bearing and 498,784 nonbearing lemon trees, 19,096 bearing and 

 and 44,255 nonbearing lime trees, 188,409 bearing and 411,248 nonbearing 

 madeira nut trees, 278,380 bearing and 331,022 nonbearing olive trees, 

 3,885,890 bearing and 9,705,246 nonbearing orange trees, 21,750,000 pine- 

 apple plants, 3,279 bearing and 12,867 nonbearing pomelo trees, and 214,- 

 988 bearing and 657,980 nonbearing pecan trees. 



Excluding pineapples and bananas, which are all counted as bearing 

 plants, as they commence fruiting within a year of planting, it will be 



