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over to new and improved varieties, while the new 

 orchards added from year to year are planted to 

 the latest standard fruits. 



This is especially true on the Pacific Coast, as 

 competition is keen and the tests given fruits must 

 be exacting. 



Luscious, sun-sweetened fruits must be pro- 

 duced which will bear shipping long distances, to 

 less favored climes, retaining their form, color and 

 flavor. Transcontinental shipping is one of the 

 severest tests that can be applied to any frvut — 

 and it is distinctly a new test. 



Most of the older fruits had been selected for 

 family use and home marketing; very few of them 

 consequently could meet this new requirement. 



Notwithstanding the fact that practically all the 

 best fruits in the world have been tested in Cali- 

 fornia, only a few of the Eastern or European 

 varieties have been able to meet the conditions 

 here, and to fulfill all the requirements demanded. 

 At present probably one-half of the fruits grown 

 in California, with the exception of the French 

 prune, are varieties that have originated, or at 

 least have risen to commercial importance, within 

 the state; and this statement applies with almost 

 equal force to the states of Oregon and Wash- 

 ington. 



There is a great field of usefulness open to the 



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