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These things should not be; there will be confusion as long as such things 

 remain; something can be done with proper steps. While we are originating 

 a great many new varieties of fruit on the Pacific Coast, which is very laud- 

 able and should be encouraged, the old varieties, many of them, are improp- 

 erly named and improperly called on this coast, and I would make a motion 

 that there be a standing committee of five appointed to take this matter in 

 hand and work it up. It cannot be done in a few days, but it can in time, 

 and should be done. 



The motion was carried. 



COMMITTEE ON COOKE MEMORIAL. 



The matter of preparing a suitable memorial to the late Matthew Cooke 

 was brought before the convention and discussed, and on motion the matter 

 was referred to the following committee: Hon. AVilliam Johnston, Sol. Run- 

 yon, and Mr. Booth. 



COMMITTEE ON OLIVE OIL TESTS. 



The Chair appointed the following committee to examine olive oil pro- 

 duced before this convention: General Vallejo, Charles Dondero, and B. M. 

 Lelong. 



ORANGES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Butler: I think there might be something more than has been said 

 as to the planting of oranges in Northern California. There has been an 

 opinion throughout this State that Northern California is a failure in orange 

 culture on account of the cold last winter, and very many oranges would 

 have been planted last season but for that fact. Placer County sent twenty- 

 five thousand oranges to Los Angeles late last December, and the entire 

 side of a building sixty feet long was covered with oranges, giving them 

 such a slope that they would not fall off, and the people were astonished 

 at the oranges that could be exhibited there at that season of the year, 

 before oranges were ripe. It was a complete revelation to the people of 

 that section of country. I was one day standing in front of the exhibit, 

 and a gentleman came up and said: "Are you connected with this exhibit?'' 

 I said I was in charge of.it. Said he: " Did those oranges grow in Placer 

 County?" I said they did. Said he: " Did you see the trees from which 

 those oranges came ? " Well, his method of putting the question was rather 

 pointed, and it brought me out a little, and I said: " Every orange that you 

 see here on exhibition, every lemon, persimmon, and olive, was grown in 

 Placer County; I have seen nearly every orchard and I know that they 

 were grown there, and within a range of two or three miles from one spot." 

 "Well," he said, "that beats Los Angeles," and the gentleman introduced 

 himself as Mr. Chapman, of San Diego. I make this explanation because 

 I don't care to be quoted as making comparisons; he is the man that made 

 the comparison. We had specimens of fruit there that I never should 

 have allowed to have gone, for I could have gone into one single orchard 

 and, if I had taken every orange on the trees, the product would have been 

 better than the one exhibited there. Oranges won't grow everywhere in 

 Northern California, but there is a certain thermal belt in the foothills 

 where the growing of oranges is eminently practical. I desire to show that 

 it is practicable, the planting of oranges in this section of the State for 

 profit; and then there is a value other than the mere actual profit, more 



