CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW Til KM 



the orange to an English-speaking people was an unsolved problem. 

 The long list of deciduous fruits had varieties to suit the tastes 

 and ambitions of all planters and the opportunity for selling many 

 different fruits and their different products seemed illimitable. 

 "The world for a market" seemed a reasonable proposition, for de- 

 ciduous fruits and their products had been shipped to eastern 

 markets since the first overland railway was opened in 1868, and 

 very large prices were attained, just often enough to be alluring. 

 No citrus fruits had been shipped out of the State on a commercial 

 scale, and no one knew that they could be, profitably. The central 

 and northern districts threw their full strength into the deciduous 

 fruit interest and the result has justified the effort, for, at the pres- 



Cover Crop in Orange Orchard of Mr. W. M. Bristol, East Highlands. 



ent time, the annual shipments of deciduous orchard fruits fresh 

 dried and canned ; the grape, both fresh, as raisins and as wine and 

 brandy, has reached a total value of about forty millions of dol- 

 lars almost all of it from the regions of California north of the- 

 Tehachipi mountains. The engrossing requirements of this grandly 

 successful undertaking gave northern growers, packers and cav)i 

 talists no leisure to think seriously of citrus fruit planting thai 

 was left for a decade and a half to the special attention of the 

 southern California people, and they developed it splendidly for 



