PREFACE. 



These pages set forth my observations of the films Fruit Industry during n resi- 

 dence of eleven years in Southern California, and my experience as a praciira' 

 horticulturist for four years. The .principles ot propagation and planting I have 

 worked out with my own hands, and know them to be more than abstract theo- 

 ries. In matters pertaining to the gathering, packing and shipping of fruit, I have 

 discussed established methods, advocating the most advanced. I hope this treatise 

 may prove a pleasant reminiscence to those of its readers who are experienced 

 orange growers, and that it may aid the novice who lays hold of the orange tree 

 to avoid the thorns. 



W. A. S. 

 Riverside, (''. 



