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have a hundred acres of oranges ; Fresno, Stanislaus, and Tulare, 

 in the San Joaquin Valley, have also barely commenced the cul- 

 ture of semitropic fruits. But the industry is more at home in 

 the Coast Range valleys from Santa Barbara south and southeast. 

 There, also, it is of longer growth, three out of four trees being 

 in bearing, while in the counties that have but lately begun to 

 plant semitropic fruits more than half the orchards have not yet 

 fruited to any extent. The beginnings of fig and olive orchards 

 are more generally distributed throughout the State than are 

 lemon and orange orchards. Classified from this standpoint, the 

 lemon is represented by one or more acres in thirty counties, the 

 orange in thirty-eight, the fig in forty-two, and the olive in 

 forty-four. 



Deciduous fruits cover a very wide range, both in variety and 

 distribution. The apple, apricot, cherry, peach, prune, and pear 

 are the principal deciduous fruits grown in California. There are 

 some nectarine and quince orchards, and the Japanese persimmon 

 is planted to some extent. Many other deciduous fruit trees 

 find place in family orchards and experimental grounds, but 

 those named comprise all that are of commercial value at the 

 present time. 



A complete table of the deciduous fruit acreage by counties 

 would include every one of the fifty-three. The apple, for in- 

 stance, is grown everywhere. The peach and prune better repre- 

 sent the deciduous fruits. A unit of one hundred acres would 

 force us to classify some forty-five counties. Even five hundred 

 acres as a unit would list twenty-nine counties ; but, by raising it 

 to a thousand acres, we include all, or nearly all, of the famous 

 deciduous fruit districts. 



TABLE II. Acreage of Deciduous Fruits. 



