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Trusting that this is the information you desire to have, and always at 

 your service, we remain, 



Very truly yours, 



SGOBEL & DAY. 



CHICAGO, October 14, 1899. 

 MR. B. M. LELONG, Secretary State Board of Horticulture, Sacramento, CaL: 



DEAR SIR: We should have replied to yours of July 28th before this. 

 However, \ve wanted to give you positive information as to whether there 

 were any established houses in the East who were preparing the citron of com- 

 merce for market. We are now in a position to inform you that this article, 

 which is shipped from Europe in brine, is very small and shipped only as an 

 experiment, which, as far as we can learn, has been a failure. The citron 

 commonly used by confectioners, bakers, and candy-makers is imported 

 already prepared. This, however, should not prevent California growers from 

 raising citron in that State in larger quantities than they do now, and pre- 

 paring it for market right in their own State. Like a great many industries, 

 California would soon head the list as a citron-producing State and would no 

 doubt at no distant date supply the demand of at least the United States. 

 Yours truly, 



JOHN ZUCCA & CO. 



French method of protecting the limbs of the Citron and its fruit. 



