I$0 ORANGE CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA. 



show that this fruit can, with a little trouble, be grown over a 

 large area in the central and northern parts of the State. The 

 citron and the lime are still more tender than the lemon, and 

 their culture will be attended with difficulties in most situations 

 north of Point Conception. 



A very large space is given up to this report, but we believe 

 the importance of the subject to the State at large is sufficient 

 justification. Many of the contributors are among the most ex- 

 perienced orange and lemon growers in the State, and several 

 of them are owners of some of the largest orchards. The scraps 

 of information interspersed here and there will therefore be of 

 great value to novices in the business, who will find it worth 

 preserving for future reference. 1 1 will give our Eastern read- 

 ers an exact idea of what an unusually cold winter in California 

 really is; and to the intending immigrant what an extensive 

 area is spread out before him from which to select the site for 

 his future orange grove. Bulletin. 



The following is additional evidence of the extent of cold that 

 bearing orange trees will endure without injury : 



"The question seems to be an open one whether or not oranges 

 can be raised in California elsewhere than in the semi-tropical 

 south. When in Europe, in 1866, we spent a winter in Naples. 

 This is an orange country. Sorento orchards, some twenty 

 miles away, are famous. Sicily is not so far from Naples as 

 Los Angeles is from San Francisco. During this winter, and 

 for weeks at a time, we saw the fountains frozen up, icicles 

 formed into great blocks of ice, the ground congealed, and 

 vehicles rattled over frozen "pavements that did not for days 

 yield to the melting influence of the sun. The wind came howl- 

 ing down from the snow-clad summits of the Apennines, yet no 

 orange trees were injured, nor did the inhabitants seem to re- 

 gard this cold spell as exceptional. Young orange trees must 

 be nursed through the tenderness of their infantile days. They 

 are hardy trees when grown." Argonaut. 



The following, from the pen of Prof. W. A. Sanders, of 

 Fresno, I consider of sufficient importance to merit a place here : 



"The thermometer has twice been sixteen degrees below the 

 freezing point during the past thirty days. Unprotected orange 



