ORANGE CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA. 137 



J. W. Keith, Chinese Camp : 



First Twenty-eight degrees above zero. Our place is from 

 two to three weeks earlier than other parts of Tuolumne county. 

 Our fruit ripens at about the same time as at French Bar, on 

 the Tuolumne, and at Knight's Ferry, on the Stanislaus. 



Second New growth on young trees has frozen back from 

 six to eighteen inches, according to its maturity. Last year's 

 growth does not appear to be affected. We have a few trees 

 with oranges on them at present which have borne for nine 

 years. Trees and fruit appear to be uninjured. 



Third Near the river, but well drained. Age, three years 

 from the bud ; not bearing. 



Fourth My trees have had no protection. I think they are 

 not seriously injured. Judging from our old trees, I think they 

 can be successfully cultivated in our vicinity. 

 Jules Reynaud, Green Springs : 



First Lowest point, under a shed, twenty-eight degrees. 

 Second My orange suffered none from the frost. My lemon 

 trees, planted about sixty feet west of them, were frozen, the 

 leaves turning from green to yellow. The fruit became soft, but 

 is yet excellent. 



Third I am in the hills. My trees are planted on a little 

 flat sheltered by a large hill. Orange trees with fruit, nine years 

 old ; lemon, two years old. 



Fourth The frost had no effect on my tropical trees before 

 this year, and it has affected only my lemon trees this year. 

 My bearing orange tree was raised from seed. It bore three 

 oranges the first year, three hundred the second, and this year 

 fifty dozen as large as Tahiti oranges. 

 Merced County M. D. Atwater, Merced: 

 First The thermometer was as low as eighteen degrees one 

 or two mornings, but it was not generally lower than from 

 twenty-seven to thirty degrees. This was at Merced. My place 

 is five miles above Merced, on a slight elevation. We have 

 in our front yard a lemon tree four years old, not injured at all 

 by the frost. About all the damage that was done by frost in 

 this vicinity was done to young trees that have been set only a 

 year or two. The extent of damage to them cannot be ascer- 



