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cypress. The orange trees c©me into bearing in about four years ; 

 twenty acres have been sold for 840,000. A crop has been sold 

 on the trees for $1,250 per acre, but four hundred to five hundred 

 dollars per acre, is not an unusual price for the fruit. Land and 

 water companies have been formed, and the land sold in lots with 

 water privileges, costing from sixty cents to five dollars per acre. 

 The town is a perfect paradise, filled with beautiful homes ; the 

 houses were set back from the streets, and now they can hardly 

 be seen. But oranges cannot be grown without any trouble ; the 

 most destructive pest is the cotton-scale ; a species of lady-bird, 

 from Australia, was found to be its deadly enemy, and it was 

 imported and propagated, and in two years it destroyed the 

 cotton-scale. There is another scale insect for which another 

 parasite will have to be found, though a kerosene emulsion will 

 destroy it. The gopher, an animal about as large as a rat, 

 destroys orange trees by girdling, but good cultivation will keep 

 them out. The speaker saw orange trees looking yellow, and was 

 told that the owner gathered a large crop, but did not put any- 

 thing back. He saw a young man from Amherst who went to 

 Pomona with some capital, and had worked hard, and was healthy, 

 happy, and prosperous. Five acres of orange grove is enough for 

 one man to attend to ; one can care for such a place better than 

 for a great estate. Mr. Ware concluded by saying that for lack 

 of time and preparation, he had been able to speak of only a very 

 few of the many prominent features of the horticultural resources 

 of California, and that briefly. But though he found California so 

 attractive, he loves his friends and the old associations, and could 

 not afford to leave them. He thanked God that his home is just 

 where it is, but said that unless we go away and return we cannot 

 rightly and full}' appreciate our homes. 



Discussion. 



O. B. Had wen spoke of the exhibition a few years ago by the 

 Kimball Brothers, of National City, Cal., in the Old South Church, 

 of products of that State, and said that he visited these gentle- 

 men, who are engaged in cultivating olives, guavas, etc., and was 

 most hospitably treated by them. 



James Fisher said that he had lived in San Diego two or three 

 years, and that the climate there is in great contrast to that of 

 Oakland. In San Diego there is a breeze from the Pacific every 

 day in the hot season, and the climate is very healthful. Persons 



