12 CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



LOCATIONS FOR THE GROWTH OF DIFFERENT 



FRUITS 



^_ It is intended to describe as definitely as possible the locations 

 suitable for the growth of different fruits in the special chapters 

 given to those fruits, but there are a few general conditions which 

 should be outlined. 



Seasonable and extreme temperatures and average rainfall in various California re- 

 gions from the records of the United States Weather Bureau to the close of 1907 



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STATIONS COUNTY 



In discussing the choice of location for an orchard it is not 

 intended to speak geographically. As has already been intimated, 

 latitude, which is a prime factor in geography, is of exceedingly 

 small account as an indication of horticultural adaptations in 

 California. The fact becomes strikingly apparent when it is known 

 that the apple and the orange, fruit kings whose kingdoms lie at 

 opposite borders of the temperate zone, so far distant that one 

 may be called semifrigid and the other semi-tropical, have in 

 California utter disregard for the parallels of latitude, which set 

 metes and bounds upon them in other lands, and flourish side by 

 side, in suitable localities, from San Diego to Shasta. Impressive 

 as this truth may be, it is not so startling as another fact, viz., that 

 fruits, in suitable interior situations, ripen earlier at the north than 

 at the south a complete reversal of the tenets of the geographer. 



