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CITRUS CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA. 



ruins of a supertonic winter into the malarious tendencies of a radical spring 

 warmth mixed with the vagaries of an obstinate liver. 



And so he comes to recognize the California orange as not only the proper thing, 

 but as coming in at the proper time, and he proceeds to put it where it will do the 

 most good. It is a new and popular prescription from Nature's California labo- 

 ratory, and he cries for it daily. The great and growing cities of the Mississippi 

 Valley are learning to appreciate and consume increasing quantities of this class of 

 fruits, filling the gap, as they do, between the ham fat of winter and the chicken 

 broth and fresh vegetables of the heated term in July. This industry is yet in its 

 infancy on this coast, and we may rest assured that the demand for choice fruit at 

 high prices will always remain in advance of the supply. 



Professor Van Deman, Chief of Pomological Division, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, in a recent letter, 

 said : 



Having had frequent opportunities to test the oranges of every part of the United 

 States, and those from Mexico, Jamaica, and the Mediterranean, I am glad to say 

 that those of our own country are the best of those tested. We not only have 

 imported the best varieties from nearly every part of the world, but our wide-awake 

 fruit growers are producing new seedlings, some of which are equal to the best, and 

 the tendency is constantly upwards. 



