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TRKATISE 



CITRUS CULTURE IN CAL 



WITH 



A Description of the Best Varieties grown in the State, and Varieties grown in 



other States and Foreign Countries; Gathering, Packing, 



Curing, Pruning, Budding, Diseases, Etc, 



BY B. M. LELONG, 



Secretary of the State Board of Horticulture of the State of California. 



Know'st thou the land where the lemon trees bloom, 

 Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom", 

 Where a wind ever soft from the blue heavens blows, 

 And the groves are of miro and nikau and rose? California. 



SACRAMENTO: 



STATE OFFICE, : : : : J. D. YOUNG, SUFI'. STATE PRINTING. 

 1888. 



