146 ORANGE CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA. 



Thomas A. Garey, Los Angeles : 



First I kept no record of readings of thermometer. 



Second My orange trees in orchard form are not injured iri 

 the least. Our standard trees in the Cooperative Nursery and 

 Fruit Company's grounds are uninjured. Nursery trees (prin- 

 cipally Garey's Mediterranean Sweet) from two to three years 

 old from the bud, nine-tenths are uninjured. Three-fourths of 

 one-year-old buds are killed to the original stock; the other 

 fourth are badly damaged. 



Third The trees mentioned above are located within and 

 adjoining the city limits of Los Angeles. Distance to surface 

 water from about forty to sixty feet. 



Fourth This is the severest freeze known since I engaged in 

 the nursery business, in 1865. In some localities, where the 

 land is low and surface water is within say from ten to twenty 

 feet, trees will need protection until they attain an age of three 

 or four years from the bud. 



O. W. Childs, Los Angeles : 



First The lowest reading of the thermometer at the United 

 States Signal Service was on December i/j-th, 1878, thirty de- 

 grees. I do not think it read any lower than this in any of the 

 orange orchards. 



Second No damage whatever to bearing trees, and none to 

 nursery trees, except in cases in which too much irrigation late 

 in the season caused small trees to continue growing till checked 

 by cold weather; this new growth has been killed on low lands. 



Third Age, from one to two years, and some newly-budded 

 trees, buds just starting, on three and four-year-old stock; only 

 the starting buds injured. 



Fourth No. 



Dr. Pigne Dupuytren, Los Angeles : 



First I did not notice the readings of the thermometer. 



Second Trees under four years of age have generally suf- 

 fered, and will be retarded one or two years. Some think the 

 growth will be increased, rather than retarded, but this is hardly 

 probable. The very young trees under two years can be 

 considered as lost. Large trees more than seven years old have 

 not suffered. It can generally be said that lemon and citron 

 have suffered more than orange trees. 



