CITRUS AND SUB-TROPICAL FRUITS 
THEIR CULTURE, CARE AND MARKETING 
IN presenting this treatise on Citrus and Sub- 
Tropical fruits, it is our aim to give those inter- 
ested in the culture of these fruits, such infor- 
mation and advice as our experience and obser- 
vation, covering a great many years of active work 
along these lines, will warrant. 
While space in a book of this kind necessitates be- 
ing brief, we shall endeavor to touch on the essential 
points necessary to give the novice an insight into the 
habits, requirements, culture and care of those vari- 
eties we enumerate to enable him to at least start 
right in laying the foundation for a successful com- 
mercial orchard, or in growing the few trees neces- 
sary to supply the home with those fruits peculiar to 
our California climate. 
It is with pardonable pride that we point to the 
many acres of profitable citrus orchards planted to 
Teague trees during the past thirty-three years, and 
we want to here thank our many friends and patrons, 
whose continued trade throughout all these years has 
not only enabled us to keep increasing our business, 
but has spurred us on to increased efforts in the pro- 
duction of better and more prolific stock. Starting in 
business we adopted the slogan, "When better trees 
are grown, Teague will grow them," and to that end 
we have and shall continue to put forth every effort 
to grow the best trees that experience and money can 
produce. 
To within the last year we have devoted our entire 
time and attention to the growing of citrus fruit 
trees, but with the advent of some of the more prom- 
ising sub-tropical fruits into the commercial fruit- 
growing industry of California, and realizing that 
there was a wide field for the propagation of these 
fruits if handled along the same lines that have 
proven so successful with us in citrus propagation, we 
decided to take up the growing of such varieties as in 
our judgment give promise of possessing commercial 
importance. 
Knowing that for the successful propagation of the 
sub-tropical fruit trees, we must have land practically 
free from frost where the most tender plants can 
be grown in the open the year around, we have re- 
cently purchased a ninety-acre tract in La Habra 
Heights, northwest of the town of La Habra and 
just across the county line in Los Angeles County. 
This tract of land is particularly well located for 
nursery purposes, being partially surrounded by low 
hills, which practically isolates it from the valley 
proper, removes the danger of damage from heavy 
winds, and being an entirely new sub-division reduces 
the danger of scale infestation to a minimum. 
The elevation is sufficient to make it practically 
immune to frost damage to even the most tender- 
plant, and the soil, a deep rich loam, washed in from 
the adjacent hills in ages past, insures a perfect and 
most vigorous root system which is really the founda- 
tion, of all successful plant life. With this location 
we know we can produce and deliver to our cus- 
tomers the most perfect specimens of both citrus and 
sub-tropical trees. 
While we shall in the future grow most of our 
stock in this new location, the many years of success- 
ful dealings and association with planters and dealers 
from the different citrus growing sections of the 
world, having been transacted from our San Dimas 
office, we deem it advisable to maintain our head- 
quarters here, where we are perfectly equipped to 
handle and pack stock in the best possible condition 
for local or long distance shipment and where we are 
always glad to meet those interested in horticulture, 
show our stock and explain our methods of growing 
and selling trees. 
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