TRAE"SAOTIO]NrS 



OF THE 



TWENTY-SIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION 



PxELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE 

 BOARD OF HORTICULTURE, AT PIONEER HALL, SAN 

 FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 3 TO 6. 1901. 



Pursuant to call, a convention of fruit-growers, shippers, nurserymen, 

 and others interested in horticulture and kindred pursuits in California, 

 assembled in convention in Pioneer Hall, San Francisco. 



OPENING EXEEOISES, 



President Ellwood Cooper, of the State Board of Horticulture, called 

 the Convention to order and explained the object of the meeting. 



Rev. George Allen, of San Francisco, opened the proceedings with 

 prayer. 



Prof. E. J. WicKsox, of the University of California, was chosen Vice- 

 President. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME, 



Hon. James D. Phelan, Mayor of San Francisco, delivered an address 

 of welcome, as follows: 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



It is my pleasure to welcome you to the city of San Francisco. I 

 judge that you have selected our city as a meeting place because it is 

 neutral territory; we do not grow here either the orange, or the lemon, 

 or the prune; in fact, ours is a barren peninsula. A great many years 

 ago a Spanish king sent a commissioner to California to locate the villa 

 of Branciforte; he traveled up and down the coast, and reported on the 

 eligibility of various places. Of San Francisco, he said there was 

 neither water, nor wood, nor arable land, and that it was impossible as 

 a place for human habitation; so he selected a site on the San Lorenzo 



