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Third Trees planted on low land. I think there could not 

 possibly have been any injury done by frost on the table lands. 



Fourth There has not been cold enough during my eight 

 years' experience here to injure either orange or lemon trees 

 planted on table lands, or on the slopes of the foot-hills. It is 

 my firm belief, however, that all fruit culture, to be successful, 

 requires protection from frost. 



Col. Hollister, Santa Barbara : 



First Thirty-one degrees above zero, thermometer hanging 

 on a tree, four feet from the ground, by the side of the orchard. 



Second No effect, except a little paler color in the leaves of 

 the latest growth. I do not regard it as particularly damaging. 

 I have heard of no damage to trees in the neighborhood. 



Third Planted in a valley among foot-hills, two hundred and 

 eighty-five feet above the sea. Trees seven years from seed. 



Fourth No. This has been the coldest winter in ten years. 

 The climate and soil seem admirably adapted to their growth. 

 My orange trees are fruiting for the first time. Lemons fruited 

 at five years. 



Ventura County Robert Lyon, Cliff Glen, San Buenaventura : 



I shall answer your inquiries as fully as they may be answered 

 at this date, in regard to the recent doings of Jack Frost among 

 the orange groves of Ventura county. In some localities only 

 the outer leaves and late, tender growth of wood are killed; 

 some of the center branches, which had the protection of the 

 top of the tree, are still alive and green. This is the case with 

 Mr. Sparks' lime orchard, containing three hundred four-year- 

 old trees, all in full bearing. Mr. Sparks has furnished the local 

 market of Ventura with limes since last November, and although 

 some of the fruit on the outer side of the trees was frozen solid, 

 those protected by the heavy foliage were uninjured. Some 

 orchardists are of the opinion that those trees will all die to the 

 ground and sprout again from the root. Others believe that by 

 removing all the dead branches, by pruning, only one year's 

 growth of the tree and one crop of limes will be lost. My own 

 opinion is that it will require two years for the trees to recover ; 

 that they will remain dormant for nearly a year before they will 

 put forth a shoot, and that it will require another year for them 



