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Mcnil)cr: I think this might be a good leasoa why this condition 

 exists, that no matter how good it is, or how it tests, they seem to refuse 

 it. It might be because when they haul it in to the groceryman, it is all 

 stirred uy, and it is not the same as it was when he started from home 

 with it. 



Mr. Pollard: That is the point exactly. 



The Chairman: This closes our afternoon program. 



It now being five o'clock P.M., January 17, the meeting of the society 

 adjourned to meet at nine o'clock A.M. next day, .hinuary 18, 1912. 



MORNING SESSION 



THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1912. 



The President: The first paper on the program will be a paper en- 

 titled "Greetings from C. S. Harrison." Mr. Harrison is spending the 

 winter in southern Califoinia lor his health. 

 To the Members of the Horticultural Society: 



Dear Fellow Laborers — I find myself in this land of dreams and of 

 eternal summer. It is hard to adjust myself to it. I visited a nursery 

 yesterday. They do not have packing sheds and storage cellars. Every 

 day in the year is salesday except Sundays. 



One peculiar thing here is the rise of the land. I, think they must 

 fertilize with years. Ten acres soon becomes forty, then eighty and then 

 one hundred and sixty. Men will look you squarely in the eye and say 

 that they can get more off 10 acres than we can from 160. You never 

 can catch a Californian in a lie. I suppose that the lie goes so fast they 

 can't get it, to say nothing about getting into it. Land rises so fast that 

 you get afraid of it. Now Harry got ten acres of lemon orchard and went 

 home and turned around a few times and then went back. They told him 

 his land had doubled in value. We went out to see it. It was a fine piece 

 and the trees looked well. I was a little afraid to get on it for fear that 

 it would rise with me, so I stayed in the road. Harry went onto it, and, 

 in short, ran all over it. I was afraid that it would rise with him on it, 

 and I didn't know what would become of the boy, but we got back all 

 safe and I could not see as the land was much higher than when we or 

 he first went on it. 



We saw thousands of acres of English walnuts. They were fine or- 

 chards, and yet they are cutting them down by the thousand. "What is 

 the trouble?" I asked, "they look well and healthy and bear good crops." 

 The answer was, "We can't stand the measly meager returns. We can 

 only get $100 per acre." How they were abused I We saw great orchards 

 of oranges, and some groves have immense -packing houses and ship by 

 the train load. This whole business keeps you in a whirl and you must 

 get adjusted to it. The climate is fine. I have suffered more from the 

 heat than the cold; 85 in the day time is a little hard on winter clothing. 

 You find most all kinds of tropical fruits growing here. The flowers don't 

 know the difference between summer and winter. Dahlias get to be 

 trees covered with a glory of bloom. Well, this is a nice place for an old 



