132 ORANGE CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA. 



lath shelter, and four-year-old lemons, near an evergreen hedge, 

 were uninjured. Three-year-old oranges in dormant bud are 

 much injured. Not more than one-third can recover. Four 

 and five-year-old oranges, both budded and seedling, escaped 

 with blight of a few tips. The seedlings show more hardiness 

 than the buds. Oranges of our own budding stand better than 

 those brought from Los Angeles a year ago. The frost was less 

 severe on the higher points of ground. A belt of Monterey 

 cypress is an almost complete protection for more than twice its 

 hight. The older orange trees are not materially affected. 



Fourth No frosts heretofore have injured our young stock 

 of oranges or lemons. Once or twice within the past six years 

 a few branches of the limes have suffered. Orange and lemon 

 trees have never needed any protection in this vicinity. We 

 may feel that large trees will be safe, even through such winters 

 as this. 



I. C. Woods, Mission San Jose : 



First The three coldest days, the thermometer at six A. M. 

 marked twenty-six degrees in the orchard. 



Second No damage in our neighborhood to either orange 

 or lemon trees. 



Third All the trees at the Mission San Jose are from two to 

 three hundred feet above the level of the sea. 



Fourth No. They have never been known to be injured. 

 E. L. Beard, of Mission San Jose, has orange and lemon trees 

 about eight years old. J. J. Vallejo has orange trees fifteen 

 years old. Messrs. Beard, McClure and Vallejo now have 

 orange and lemon trees loaded with fruit. J. A. Laumeister has 

 trees from two to eight years old. I have one thousand orange 

 trees two years old from seed. Not a single tree of any referred 

 to above, or any of the fruit, was affected by the late long- con- 

 tinued cold weather. 



J. M. Gray, Alameda : 



First The lowest temperature on the two coldest mornings 

 was twenty-six degrees. 



Second The tips of the young growths were frozen on trans- 

 planted trees aged from two to five years. Trees grown here 

 from seed were not affected. Affected similarly on high and 

 low ground. 



