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in full bearing should pay a net profit of $100 per acre. 

 Many pay more, very many pay far less. In and around 

 Riverside and Orange are groves of ten acres which pay 

 an annual income of $3,000, but an average grove is not 

 nearly so remunerative. At the same time, what man 

 has done, man can do, and the horticulturist who fails 

 Las generally nobody but himself to blame. 



I can remember the time when wiseacres predicted 

 that horticulture in California would be overdone. Since 

 then the different fruit-growing industries have assumed 

 a stupendous importance, and to-day California's orchards 

 and vineyards bring in more money than the exports of 

 her cereals. A glance at the statistics at the end of this 

 appendix will satisfy any intelligent person that — as 

 Horace Greeley predicted more than forty years ago — 

 " Fruit is destined to be the ultimate glory of California." 



With new markets opening in the Philippines and all 

 over the Far East, with an ever-increasing demand for 

 her wares at home and abroad, with cheaper transporta- 

 tion, with co-operation on the part of producers, with 

 better and more economic methods of handling her pro- 

 ducts, Horticulture in California holds out her arms to 

 the world, not overdone, not played out, but young, fresh, 

 and vigorous — another Atalanta, rejoicing because she 

 has outstripped all competitors. 



A Short Catechism op Interest to Horticulturists. 



Q. What is the cost of planting one acre to prunes, 

 peaches, apricots, or vines ? 



A. The prune is par excellence the fruit, for although 

 an apricot or peach orchard costs no more to cultivate 

 and care for, and the peach bears in three years, yet these 

 fruits — while they command a higher average price than 



