18 STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



In 1857 a few trees were planted at old San Bernardino by 

 L. Van Leuven from seed grown by him. He also planted the 

 same year forty-five trees obtained from Los Angeles. About 

 two hundred were planted at Crafton by Myron H. Crafts, 

 about 1865. The first seeds were planted at Riverside in 1870, 

 and the first trees in orchard, grown from these seeds, in 1872 

 and 1873. In 1869 Frank A. Kimball planted some orange 

 and lemon trees at National City, San Diego County. At that 

 time there were two old orange trees growing in El Cajon Valley. 



But little progress was made in orange culture from 1857 

 until 1862, at which date there were but twenty-five thousand 

 trees in the entire State, and two thirds of these were in the 

 Wolfskill orchard. From this date the planting of orange 



Orange Avenue at San Gabriel trees thirty years old. 



trees increased, but not with any great rapidity until 1873, 

 when the first impetus was given to the industry. Southern 

 California was out of the reach of railroad transportation. 

 Fruit for the market was hauled to Los Angeles in wagons and 

 from there transferred to rail and steamer. This process was 

 slow and expensive, and but a limited area, and that not the 

 best land for the purpose, could be cultivated. The completion 

 of the Southern Pacific line, however, gave superior transporta- 

 tion facilities, and at the same time opened a new and better 

 fruit region. Riverside had already started, having been set- 

 tled in 1869, and a considerable area of orchard land was set 

 to oranges. Shipments of fruit to San Francisco and the East 

 commenced and they brought good returns and encouraged the- 



