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CALIFORNIA FRUITS I HOW TO GROW THEM 



Seasonable and extreme temperatures and average rainfall in various Cali- 

 fornia regions from the records of the United States Weather Bureau to the 

 close of 1913. 



STATIONS. 



COUNTY. 



COAST 



Eureka Humboldt 



San Francisco . . San Francisco 



San Jose Santa Clara . . . 



King City Monterey 



Santa Barbara . . Santa Barbara 

 Los Angeles . . . Los Angeles . . 

 San Diego San Diego 



64 47 50 56 54 52 85 20 46.2 



155 51 55 59 59 56 101 29 22.8 



95 50 57 67 60 58 108 18 15.4 



333 49 57 66 60 58 116 14 11.3 



130 55 58 65 63 60 108 27 17.3 



293 55 60 70 65 62 109 28 15.9 



933 55 59 68 63 61 110 25 9.5 



VALLEY 



Redding Shasta 552 47 60 80 64 63 117 18 38.7 



Sacramento ....Sacramento 71 47 59 72 62 60 110 19 19.4 



Merced Merced 173 49 61 79 65 63 120 16 10.6 



Fresno Fresno 293 47 60 79 64 63 115 20 10.0 



Visalia Tulare 334 46 59 78 62 61 113 17 10.3 



FOOTHILL AND MESA 



Auburn Placer 1360 47 57 75 64 61 110 12 35.1 



Redlands San Bernardino. . .1352 52 61 77 65 64 113 18 14.9 



LOCATIONS FOR THE GROWTH OF DIFFERENT 



FRUITS 



It is intended to describe as definitely as possible the locations 

 suitable for the growth of different fruits in the special chapters 

 given to those fruits, but there are a few general conditions which 

 should be outlined. 



In discussing the choice of location for an orchard it is not 

 intended to speak geographically. As has already been intimated, 

 latitude, which is a prime factor in geography, is of exceedingly 

 small account as an indication of horticultural adaptations in California. 

 The fact becomes strikingly apparent when it is known that the apple 

 and the orange, fruit kings whose kingdoms lie at opposite borders 

 of the temperate zone, so far distant that one may be called semi- 

 frigid and the other semi-tropical, have in California utter disregard 

 for the parallels of latitude, which set metes and bounds upon them 

 in other hands, and flourishes side by side, in suitable localities, from 

 San Diego to Shasta. Impressive as this truth may be, it is not so 

 startling as another fact, viz., that fruits, in suitable interior situations, 

 ripen earlier at the north than in coast valleys at the south. 



"That almost any extreme of weather," says Professor McAdie 

 in his publication just cited," can be found within the limits of 

 California is readily comprehensible when it is considered that the 

 state is 800 miles in length, contains a hundred million acres, and 



