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 Pomegranate 



A fruit of little market value, and not much valued by most 

 people. It is easily grown and troubled a little by Greedy Scale 

 only. As a novelty is desirable for domestic planting. 



Persimmon 



Very easily grown and little affected by insects. The variety 

 yielding large fruit is desirable for home use. 



Quince 



This delicious preserving fruit no one in the County need be 

 without as it will grow itself with little care when once set out. 

 Pests attacking it are Black and Greedy Scale, and the Pear Slug 

 sometimes does damage. 



Walnut 



A valuable tree for Los Angeles County south of the Sierra 

 Madres, where frost is not too severe. It thrives best in a moist 

 alluvial soil, though some good trees are growing in quite heavy 

 soils. It does not do well in the dry granite soils of the foothills 

 where irrigation supplies the only moisture in the summer. A 

 permanently moist subsoil within reach of the roots produces the 

 best trees, and crops. 



Some Greedy and Walnut Scale may be found on this tree, but 

 the only thing causing the grower much concern is the Walnut 

 Blight, which has almost ruined many groves and is probably 

 present to an injurious degree in all of them. Resistant varieties 

 are being developed and grafted stock produced, which it is confi- 

 dently hoped will produce blight proof groves in the future. The 

 walnut tree is also attacked by a walnut aphis which smuts the 

 leaves and fruit very badly some seasons. It is held in check very 

 largely by the larva of the common lady-birds. A good walnut 

 grove is a good investment. 



Celery 



This vegetable has been grown successfully on all light, fine 

 sediment soil in the County, and while not generally competing 

 with the far famed Orange County peat beds, is a profitable garden 

 crop, and we have some localities which will compare well with 

 the best. 



