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a year, or £29,360, while the budget of agriculture alone amounts to 7,200,000 

 florins (£600,000) which sum is employed in the introduction of new crops or 

 the improvement of those already existing in Java." 



And little Jamaica, almost exactly the size of San Diego county, has two 

 great botanical gardens which have been of equally great utility, manned by 

 equally well trained scientific men, and which have played equally as important 

 a part in the development of the country they serve. 



Coming directly from her own resources and support, Southern California 

 with all her great possibilities and her great riches, has absolutely nothing of this 

 sort* and what little comes from outside support is utterly inadequate and ineffec- 

 tual in the face of the great work to be done! Southern California could have as 

 splendid a service along all these lines as any other part of the world, by any one 

 of five different means: 



1. Our county service, now installed, but utterly ineffectual, could be reor- 

 ganized and placed on an efficient basis, manned by trained men, and amplified 

 to fully meet the requirements. Great results would be possible with what we 

 are already squandering in it. If the larger part of our growers stood for this 

 thing it could be done immediately under existing laws. 



2. By the employment of scientific men, and somewhat of addition to equip- 

 ment and working force by assistance from the county or from growers' associa- 

 tions, our public parks could easily give up ground to experimental work and 

 laboratories that would be among their greatest attractions, and yield to the whole 

 commonwealth some of the great benefits that can come from such work. 



3. The Federal Government or the State could establish here a garden 

 similar to the one already established at Chico, and by properly manning it, 

 amplify it into the needed institution. This would, however, involve an act of 

 Congress or of the State Legislature. 



4. A levy of a few cents per box on the citrus fruits sent out of Southern 

 California would build and support a magnificent institution which should be the 

 property of and controlled by the citrus growers and which should serve their 

 interests in the most direct and effective way. It would be a paying investment 

 and in the end a great practical economy. 



5. There are single men of wealth, and many groups of such men now in 

 Southern California, who could amply afford to found and endow a great institu- 

 tion of this sort which should be built upon a broader and better plan — to serve all 

 the agricultural and horticultural interests of the whole community, and which 

 should be a blessing and a source of strength to the whole region through all the 

 coming years of great development! 



Surely out of all these possibilities something must soon come! 



'Exception must he taken to this generality in the case of the valuable hulletins 

 puhlished by the Claremont Pomological Club, and also the Pomona Journal of Entomology 

 and this Journal, the two latter supported by certain amhitious groups and individuals 

 among the citrus growers. Xone of these projects, unfortunately, although of the greatest 

 possibilities in public service, are yet permanent projects with assured support. In so far 

 as they have been carried they represent a highly progressive and laudable movement 

 which should certainly not be allowed to languish. 



