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ing to the foregoing principles, and is ready for picking. 

 The season for Washington navels begins in the San 

 Joaquin Valley about the middle of November, and in 

 southern California it begins some four or five weeks later. 

 From that time oranges are picked from the same tree until 

 about the beginning of June. The season for Valencia Late 

 oranges opens in May, and picking continues through Octo- 

 ber. Consequently oranges are being harvested during 

 practically all of the year. In southern California Feb- 

 ruary, March, April and May constitute the rush season 

 for oranges, but in the Tulare region more than nine-tenths 

 of the crop has as a rule been shipped before January. 



Times of shipment in a typical year are shown statis- 

 tically as follows :^^ 



Shipments of Oranges and Lemons from California, 

 BY Months, 191 i 



Southern California Central California 



Oranges Lemons Oranges Lemons 



January lo.o 5.5 .3 lo.o 



February 13.8 6.0 .1 lO.o 



March 17.8 8.6 1.9 4.2 



April 16.3 12.3 1.3 .0 



May 16.3 14.9 3.5 .8 



June 9-5 ^7-4 -6 .0 



July S-2 lo.s .0 .0 



August 3.0 5.2 .0 .0 



September 2.0 4.2 .0 .0 



October 1.7 4.5 .1 18.3 



November 3 6.7 40.0 44.2 



December 4.1 4.2 52.2 12.5 



lOO.O lOO.O lOO.O loo.o 



Note: Percentages computed on the total southern 

 California and total central California shipments. Ship- 

 ments of oranges from central California constituted 9.1 

 per cent, of shipments for the State as a whole. Central 

 California lemons formed 1.7 per cent, of the total crop. 



^"^ Citrus Protective Leagrue: Bulletin No. 11, p. 71. 



