12 CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



table the averages are deduced from observations by the United 

 States Weather Bureau observers for a long series of years : 



Seasonable and extreme temperatures and average rainfall in various Cali- 

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

 beginning of observations to the close of 1920. 



So; 



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 Cali- 

 fornia. 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 dis- 

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

 them in other lands, and flourish 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. Perhaps the first practical demonstration of this fact was 

 by G. G. Briggs who went from Marysville to Ventura in 1861 

 thinking to get earlier fruits for San Francisco market, as it was 



