56 CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



occasion for such distant recourses. Prophets, far-seeing in world 

 courses, declare that the Pacific ocean is to be the arena for commerce 

 greater than the world has yet seen, and the Pacific coast countries 

 are to contain the greater part of the world's population. This greatest 

 quartosphere with its superlative opportunities and activities will have 

 California as its treasure house of fruits and fruit products. During 

 the long winter the citrus fruits will afford tonic and refreshment, 

 and before hardy fruits bloom in northern climes the same fruits will 

 appear from the early ripening districts of California. In this traffic 

 California will not only be practically without a competitor, but, 

 sitting beside the sea, there will also be every advantage of water 

 transportation and the sustaining ocean temperatures of the fruits in 

 transit. California dried and canned fruits will render acceptable diet 

 even though the most Arctic stretches along which development may 

 advance in North America and North Asia, while a succession of fresh 

 fruits will flow to all Pacific ports throughout the year. California, 

 too, will be the winter residence for all the North Pacific millionaires 

 and the haven of rest and recuperation for all who are worn by Arctic 

 cold or tropic heat throughout the great circle of the Pacific ocean. 

 Here the arts will flourish, education attain its highest achievements 

 and culture prevail. Then fruit growing both as a commercial enter- 

 prise and as a home delight will attain value, volume and perfection, 

 of which present achievements are but a faint foreshadowing. 



