The Money-Making Golden Globes. : 



THE DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT KUMQUAT. 



NO one industry has done more to individualize Southern 

 California than the growing of citrus fruits, of which 

 she now produces larger quantities than all of the remain- 

 der of the United States combined. And this is not by chance, 

 nor because the industry has found the greatest investments of 

 capital here, but because the soils and climates of this section 

 are peculiarly to the liking of the orange and the lemon tree. 

 To show how thoroughly this fact has become recognized in the 

 markets of the world, it is only necessary to note the onward 

 trend of the industry since it assumed national importance in 

 the annals of trade and the statistical division of the National 

 Department of Agriculture. The figures tell the story more 

 forcibly than mere words: 



TOTAL OUTPUT OF CITRUS FRUITS. 



SEASON. CARLOADS. 



1891 '92 4,016 



1892 -'93 4,400 



1893 -'94 5,871 



1894 -'95 5,022 



1995 -'96 7,575 



1896 '97 7,350 



1897 -'98 15,840 



1898 -'99 10,875 



1899 -'00 18,400 



1900 '01 24,854 



1901 -'02 20,397 



1902 - '03 22,425 



1903 '04 27,899 



1904 -'05 28,000 



The monied annual value of the crop aggregates something 

 like nineteen millions of dollars, a sum so vast as to make of 

 it easily the leading industry of the country. This importance, 

 coupled with the ever increasing demand for good trees and a 

 wider thirst for specific information on the various divisions of 

 the business, has induced us to prepare this booklet on Citrus 



Culture, aiming to give in as a small a space as possible the prac- 

 tical side of the growing and marketing of oranges and lemons. 

 What is here written will be found reliable and to the point in 

 every detail. We have been especially careful and conservative 

 in our desrciptions of varieties, aiming to be plain, concise and 

 to the point. The numerous half-tones, showing views of our 

 large lath houses in which we store our stock preparatory for 

 shipment; also of our seed beds, illustrating the strong and 

 vigorous growth of our seedling stocks, one containing 75,000 

 Citrus Trifoliata plants, photographed nine months from planting; 

 and the other showing 200,000 Sweet Seedling stock. Those 

 illustrating orchards planted to our trees and those picturing 

 methods of irrigation are direct from photographs, hence true 

 to nature. Of themselves, they form a splendid object lesson 

 in the growth and care of a citrus orchard, and also show that 

 our trees are properly grown in the nurseries to produce best 

 results when submitted to the test of orchard growth. The 

 text which accompanies the illustrations the instructions on 

 planting, care, etc., will be found valuable and to the point. 



Long experience has shown us the urgency of keeping our 

 varieties true to name, and hence we are at all times anxious and 

 willing to replace, on good and sufficient evidence, all trees that 

 may prove otherwise; nevertheless, it is mutually understood 

 and agreed between the purchasers and ourselves that we shall 

 not at any time be liable for any amount greater or in excess of 

 the original price of the stock at date of sale. Certain it is, the 

 class of trees we grow are good producers of fine fruit. Where 

 one order goes, others are sure to follow. 



In conclusion, we wish to thank our friends and patrons for 

 the liberal patronage extended in the past, with the hope that 

 we shall merit their future valued orders. 



THE SAN DIMAS CITRUS NURSERIES 



R. M. TEAGUE, 



PROPRIETOR. 



SAN DIMAS, CALIFORNIA, U. S. A. 



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