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the settlement and upbuilding of their portion of the State reach- 

 ing a total value of product sold beyond State lines, of about 

 eighteen millions of dollars. The chief reason, then, why, although 

 citrus adaptations were demonstrated very early in the upper part 

 of the State, the commercial planting was largely postponed to the 



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Early Bearing of Budded Orange Tree in California. 



present decade, was that the people were too busy developing a 

 greater fruit industry to which their conditions were superlatively 

 suited. 



During the last few years new interest has arisen in citrus fruit 

 growing in northern California and all the scattered experiences 

 of the last half century are becoming of inestimable value in guid- 

 ing this planting aright. There are several important reasons why 

 the north has now turned to the orange. 



