24 And the Desert Shall Blossom as the Rose. 
of the fort (three stories high) were built of oranges, and one side 
was of lemons. California as it was, was graphically shown in a 
group of cacti at one end of the San Diego exhibit—which 
furthermore represented a by nomeans small industry of gathering 
these odd and beautiful plants, since the trade in Californian and 
Mexican cacti is centering in the city of San Diego. Fresh and 
pickled olives and olive oil, however, represented a greater 
industry—one which gives promise of supporting thousands of 
familiesin the future. The display of raisins, figs, guava jelly 
and orange marmalade illustrated other typical interests without 
overshadowing the grand collections of citrus fruits which dare 
the world to surpass them in quality. 
Redlands, as one of the most enterprising of modern com- 
munities, showed her esteem for education, along with her 
abundance of oranges, by building a model of her high school 
in oranges, while pyramids of oranges in five varieties occupied a 
green field within the compass of its walls. 
Words cannot adequately convey an impression of the 
brilliancy and splendor of the whole, all decorations having been 
‘restricted to two shades of green and the colors of the two primal 
citrus fruits which formed the bulk of the entire display. The 
ceiling was formed of ivy and cypress, ornamented with orange 
and lemon stars, which added a charming impression of a star-lit 
sky. 
Could Cortez and his band of conquerors have marched in 
triumph into the midst of all this splendor, they would have been 
surrounded with greater wealth and beauty than they ever met 
in the halls of Montezuma, and could they have found this land 
as it now is, their luckless expedition up the Golfo de Cortez 
would not have been in vain. 
Meanwhile, the era of this marvelous development of our 
resources is inits infancy; each year’s citrus exhibit outranks the 
previous one; the most far sighted cannot foresee a limit to its 
expansion; nor can we even conceive of the possibilities of the 
next half century. ‘‘Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of 
Cathay’’ was the old version—the new version has it: ‘‘Better an 
acre of land in California, with one lung, than a farm and two 
lungs in the east.’’ 
