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acres will be brought under water before the close of i8gi ; 

 possibly nearly a million acres may be reclaimed in this man- 

 ner before 1892. Only about 2,500,000 acres of land are cul- 

 tivated in the whole state, while 33,000,000 acres are arable, 

 and 20,000,000 acres of wild mountain territory are covered 

 with forests. The vast increase in the number of irrigation 

 schemes has led to much activity in the way of new colonies. 

 Every possible method of organizing and establishing colonies 

 is illustrated in California. All sorts of co-operation are being 

 tested. There are colonies where the entire planting is car- 

 ried on by a board of directors elected by the colonists ; 

 there are others where each man pays a given sum monthly, 

 and at the end of a fixed term receives his land in a high 

 state of cultivation. A book is yet to be written upon the de- 

 tails of colony management, and the general conditions of life 

 in these colonies, which are for varied purposes — wine making, 

 raisin growing, olive culture, the orange industry, and dozens of 

 other enterprises. Women are combining to grow flowers for 

 San Francisco markets, and vegetables to ship east. Every 

 month in the year a number of new colony schemes are offered 

 to purchasers, and the greater number of them promise to be 

 successful. 



"As I have already said, the statistics of tree-planting are 

 deficient. Some counties, however, have made admirable re- 

 ports. Such famous districts as Napa, Sonoma, Santa Clara, 

 Solano and Alameda — districts that will probably always lead 

 the rest of the state in deciduous fruits, and in table wines — 

 are districts that make but poor and badly classified statistical 

 reports. A very satisfactor}^ statement from Los Angeles 

 county may serve to illustrate the extent of the present grow- 

 ing industries in the state. Fully twenty out of the fifty coun- 

 ties of California make great showings in these fields. 



LOS ANGELES HORTICULTURAL STATISTICS. 

 Orange Trees. 



Seedlings, 10 years and over 259,038 



Seedlings, under 10 and over 5 years 24,378 



Seedlings, 5 years and under 20,261 



Budded, 10 years and over 68,611 



Budded, under 10 and over 5 years 123,689 



Budded, 5 years and under 491.115 



Seedlings in nursery .' 1,642,315 



Budded, in nursery 788,409 



Ir^seed bed 4,446,600 



