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sible classification, but I can think of nothing better than to take 

 the principal fruit-growing counties, give their areas and the 

 acreage now planted, arranging the fruits reported upon in four 



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divisions the citrus and semitropic 

 trees, the ordinary deciduous 

 fruits, and lastly the vines and 

 small fruits. 



The principal citrus and semi- 

 tropic fruits grown in California 

 are the fig, olive, lemon, and 

 orange. The citron of commerce 

 flourishes, but has not been much 

 planted, and the lime does well 

 in some districts. The pomegran- 

 ate is in many gardens, but few 

 commercial orchards exist, and 

 the same is true of the loquat 

 and guava. Here and there in 

 sheltered, f restless places are the 

 beginnings of some small planta- 

 tions of pineapples, bananas, and 

 date palms, and a few specimens 

 of cherimoya, granadilla, alliga- 

 tor pear, jujube, melon shrub, 



species, the nut-bearing 



CLUSTER OF UVARI* OLIVES. 

 (One half natural diameter.) 



chayota, the best species of opuntia, and other tropic and semi- 

 tropic fruits that are being tested on a very small scale. Easily 

 first, and type of the whole class, is the orange. It is commer- 

 cially grown to the extent of a hundred acres or more in fifteen 

 counties of California ; eight counties contain over five hundred 

 acres apiece. The acreage of the new county of Riverside, created 

 by the last Legislature, is necessarily included in San Bernardino, 

 and that of Kings County in Tulare. 



TABLE I. Acreage of Semitropic Fruits. 



The forty-five remaining counties of the State contain acreages 

 as follows: Oranges, 1,559 ; olives, 3,394 ; lemons, 1,090 ; figs, 2,119. 



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