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eration. Every home owner should find a place for 

 a few citrus trees. 



The avocado, Persea gratissima, is one of the 

 most ornamental of all fruit trees, handsome in 

 form and foliage and producing a most abundant 

 crop of fruits of the highest food value. This tree 

 is worthy of extensive planting throughout the 

 warmer sections of the state, and of late years has 

 become quite well known and its value recognized. 



During the past score of years the cherimoya or 

 custard apple, Anona cherimolia and A. reticulata, 

 has been planted quite extensively and fruits well 

 in scores of localities varying in soil and climatic 

 conditions. 



Carissa is a particularly showy shrub well worthy 

 of a place in any garden for its ornamental value. 

 It bears fair-sized fruits, very nice to eat, but very 

 few Californians seem to grow them. 



The white sapota from Mexico, Casimiroa edulis, 

 is a fine tree of good size that yields a most delicious 

 fruit and has been sparingly planted for many years, 

 and the same may be said of the mango, more tender 

 still, claimed by those who have eaten it in India to 

 be the finest of all tropical fruits. 



Among the many fruit-bearing trees and shrubs 

 of ornamental value none have been more exten- 

 sively planted in California or have proven them- 

 selves better adapted to soil and climate than the 

 eugenias. Unfortunately, we have not grown those 

 of specific economic value, though these species are 

 fully as ornate as those more common with us. 



The kai apple from Natal, Aberia caffra, and a 

 still better species from Ceylon, A. Gardneri, may be 

 grown either as small trees or as a large hedge, 

 much as limes are usually planted. The first-named 

 species has been fruited here for many years, and 



