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one hundred orange trees nine years old that show no appear- 

 ance of frost. 



Third My old trees are now in bearing; they have never 

 shown the effect of cold to any extent. The thermometer, 

 among them, read twenty-fjve degrees at the lowest. 



Fourth I do not think we can successfully cultivate orange 

 or lemon trees on our low land, but on our bench land or up- 

 land, both orange and lemon trees do well, so far as my expe- 

 rience goes. In 1873 my orange trees were bent to the ground 

 with fifteen inches of snow. They were not injured in the least 

 by the cold. 



W. Cantelow, Pleasant Valley : 



First The lowest point to which the thermometer fell at my 

 place was thirty-two degrees. It hung on the north side of a 

 shed, one hundred and twenty-five feet from the trees. My place 

 is about six hundred feet above the sea. 



Second I have fifty budded trees, planted last year. They 

 have been watered and they made a good growth late in the 

 season, but not one is damaged. I saw, to-day, at Mr. M. R. 

 Miller's place, on low ground, three-year-old orange trees that 

 were killed by the frost. 



Third At L. W. Buck's, elevation about three hundred feet, 

 thermometer twenty-seven degrees, he has orange and lemon 

 trees uninjured that were planted last year. 



Fourth The frosts have not been too severe at an elevation 

 of three hundred feet. Oranges and lemons will not be raised 

 to any extent on the low land of Vaca and Pleasant Valleys. 

 There were a number of trees planted in Vacaville last season, 

 every one of which is killed, as I am informed. 



C. Martell, Pleasant Valley : 



First My place is in the hills in Pleasant Valley. I did not 

 notice the thermometer, but saw ice on many mornings, this 

 winter and last, one-fourth of an inch thick. 



Second I have one hundred and seventy-five orange and 

 twenty-five lemon trees. I cannot see that the frost has done 

 them any damage at all this winter, or that it injured them any 

 last winter. 



Third My orange orchard is about one hundred and fifty 



