18 CALIFORNIA VEGETABLES. 



demonstrations of the truth of advanced conceptions of 

 cultural efficacy than can probably be found in any other 

 State. This is not due to any purpose or design on the 

 part of our people. It is merely their notable resources of 

 adaptability and ingenuity brought to bear upon the wide 

 range of conditions involved in our combined winter and 

 summer gardening which concentrates in a single common- 

 wealth all the diversity one might encounter if he were 

 a peripatetic gardener with an itinerary extending from 

 Ireland to Algeria. Nor is this remark intended merely 

 as a reference to the natural diversity of the different 

 parts of the State, because success may require more or 

 less distinct methods in summer and in winter in the same 

 region. In short, the California gardener has to know arid- 

 land practice and humid-land practice and call them both 

 into requisition equally or incline toward one or the other 

 as his conditions demand. 



It takes a man of some depth and breadth to do this, 

 and this is the reason why land owners who have brought 

 skilled horticultural practitioners from abroad to develop 

 their properties have experienced so many disappoint- 

 ments. It requires head as well as handicraft to master 

 the situation, as subsequent chapters will suggest. 



