THE 
CALIFORNIA FRUITS 
AND | 
HOW TO GROW THEM. 
A MANUAL OF METHODS WHICH HAVE YIELDED GREATEST SUCCESS; WITH LISTS OF 
VARIETIES BEST ADAPTED TO THE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OF THE STATE 
BY EDWARD J. WICKSON, A. M. 
Professor of Agricultural Practise in the University of California, and Horticulturist of the 
Agricultural Experiment Station; Author of ‘‘California Vegetables in Garden 
and Field;’’ President of the California State Floral Society; 
Horticultural Editor of the ‘‘Pacific Rural Press’’ 
of San Francisco, etc. 
‘“« The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, 
And verdant olives flourish round the year; 
The balmy spirit of the western gale 
Eternal breaths on fruits untaught to fail; 
Each dropping pear a following pear supplies, 
On apples, apples, figs on figs arise; 
The same mild season gives the blooms to blow, 
The buds to harden, and the fruits to grow.” 
—Pope's Hom, Odys. Bk. VIL. 
THIRD EDITION: LARGELY REWRITTEN. 
PACIFIC RURAL PRESS, PUBLISHERS 
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
1900, 
Ev. 
