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LIFE ZONES AND CROP ZONES. 



Crops of the Lower Sonoran Faunal Area. 



Raisin and wine grapes, oranges, lemons, olives, prunes, peaches, 

 apricots, English walnuts, and almonds are among the important 

 products of the Lower Sonoran area, and the fig ripens several crops 

 each year. Although too far south for the highest development of 

 cereals, several varieties, as the Australian and Sonora wheats, the 

 red rust-i)roof oats, and the white gourd seed corn, do well. Cotton, 

 tobacco, j)3'rethrum, and the opium poppj^ thrive in certain localities, 

 and alfalfa, -co wpeas, and canaigi-e (a plant valuable for tanning) do 

 better than in anj^ other area. 







cereals. 







Barle7j (;?). 



White Gourd Seed (9). 





Corn. 

 Oats. 

 Rye (3). 



Red Rust Proof (-■?). 









Wheat. 



Australian. 





Sonora. 

 fruits. 





At^ocado (Aguacate). (hy 







Apple.t. 



Marshall Red (Red Bellflow 

 Se.xton (1 olden. 



er). 



Yellow Bellflower. 

 Yellow Nfwtown Pippin. 



Skinner Seedlintj (Santa Clara 



King). 







Apricots. 



Breda. 





Roman. 



Heniskirke. 





Royal. 



Hinds Seedling. 

 Mont.t,'aniet, Alherge de. 

 Montgamet Early. 

 Moorpark. 

 Peach. 





Royal Golden, Brier. 



Sparks. 



St. Ambroise. 



"Vestal Moorpark. 



Early Purple Gnigne. 





Cherries. 



Carol). 



Cherimoiier. (hY 



Citron. 



Dates, (hy 



' There are several hot pockets in the Lower Sonoran in which tropical or arid 

 tropical frviits may be grown with greater or less sncciss. The best known of 

 these is near Santa Barbara. Calif., where the following are said to flourish: Avo- 

 cado (Persea gratissinta), capullin (Prnnns eaptdi). cherimoyer (Anona clieri- 

 violia), kai-apple (Aberia caff'ra). mango (Ma ngifera indiea), Moreton Bay chest- 

 nut (rV/.s7a»().sjjrr»/(/;H ansfrale), pepino (Sdlannm »i»ruYr//<H(), Qneensland nut 

 (Maeddtiniin ternifolia), rose apple (Kngenia jambox), sapodilla (Aeliras saixtla). 

 tree tomato (Cyplioniandra betaeea), an<l zaput' bianco (Casiuuroa ednlis). 



