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TWENTY-EIGHTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



A MEMBER. What brand do you find good? 



PROFESSOR WOODWORTH. There are only two brands really 

 for sale there. What they call the Block brand and the Horticultural 

 brand. 



A MEMBER. I would like to ask, for information, if in this State- 

 there have been any experiments made so that comparison can be had 

 between dust spraying and water spraying? 



PROFESSOR WOODWORTH. We are trying the dry method as 

 well as the wet method. Of course we can't say anything until we see 

 what the results have been. 



PROFESSOR COOK. I want to tell our friend, Mr. Berwick, who 

 is not acquainted down south, that we raise the best apples that are 

 grown in California. At the New Orleans Exposition, Southern Cali- 

 fornia got the premium over the whole United States. And I want to 

 tell him further that in our best apple regions we have no trouble from 

 the codling-moth. They have never gotten in there, and we think we 

 have the brains to keep them out. And that is in the region of San 

 Diego County, away up in the mountains; and also in San Bernardino 

 County. It seems to me it ought to be stated that we have splendid 

 apple orchards. They are not large, but there are a number of them 

 away up in the valleys, and we raise magnificent apples. I have never 

 seen better apples anywhere than those near Julian, in San Diego. 

 County. The Spitzenberg, which we like so well East, is just as good 

 down there as in New York or Michigan. Now, I don't think anybody 

 should spray. fruit trees in bloom. I know this; I don't guess at it. 

 Especially is this so if there are bees. 



MARKETING CITRUS FRUITS. 



By COL. F. M. CHAPMAN, of Covina. 



This subject having been assigned me, I will discuss it from the point 

 of view of the grower. We must recognize that this is a very large sub- 

 ject to be fully covered in one paper. I shall therefore not attempt to go 

 into detail, but will only touch upon a few of the important phases a& 

 seen by a grower of citrus fruits. 



The area in which citrus fruits, and especially California's pride, the 

 Washington Navel, can be grown in its perfection is so limited, and the 

 demand so constantly on the increase, that it must be apparent that 

 the industry is of great importance. It should be, and is, one of the 

 happiest callings in which man can engage to-day. 



In growing citrus fruits for the market, quality is always of greatest 

 importance. Clean, attractive fruit is always worth more than scaly, 

 coarse stuff. The orchardist who grows - inferior fruits should not 



