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Not only have the results of the researches in America become 

 well known to the world, but still farther reaching are the 

 results of the industries of the American citizens. Brain and 

 muscle have united, and have succeeded in giving to the world 

 the fruits of our industries. The market gardens, adjacent to 

 our great cities, the fruit industries of the south, and even that 

 uni(]ue horticultural industry of southeastern Massachusetts 

 and New Jersey, cranberry growing, show, in a limited degree, 

 what is being accomplished ; but when we consider the horticul- 

 tural possibilities of California, how can we begin to realize to 

 what extent these industries may be carried? 



In 1888, 1,250,000 boxes of raisins were produced in Cali- 

 fornia. Every year, the quality of these raisins has improved 

 until now they are considered to be sweeter than those sent 

 from Spain, and will keep so for twice as long a time. During 

 the last year alone, the value of the horticultural products — 

 wines, fruits, vegetables, and flowers — is estimated at thirty-six 

 millions of dollars, and it is affirm.ed that ten thousand tons of 

 fresh, dried and canned fruits have been sent from there by rail, 

 the past season, not including those sent by express. More 

 fruit trees were to have been planted there last winter than ever 

 before. The largest olive- oil factory in the world has been 

 built in Sonoma County, California, recently, at an expense of 

 a quarter of a million dollars, and the company are planting 

 seven hundred acres of olive trees. Now that the g-rowinof of 

 olives is to be engaged in as a special industry, and to so great 

 an extent, (,'alifornia is indeed destined to surpass the south- 

 land of Europe. Those who perform manual labor, are- apt to 

 ignore the thought labor, and often do not understand the phy- 

 sical exhaustion it produces; but there is an industry of mind, 

 without which there would be seen to-day but little improve- 

 ment upon the old ways in which our grandfathers worked. It 

 is by the industrious thought of the few progressive minds that 

 the work of the many has been wonderfully lessened. The 

 brain of the manufacturer who utilizes the products of the 

 great cotton gardens of the South, and the intelligence of the 

 members of a corporati(5n who establish in the West the greatest 

 flour-mill in the world, are potent factors in extending the 



