JOURNAL . 



OF THE 



Royal Horticultural Society. 



Vol. XXII. 1898. 

 Part I. 



FRUIT GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. 



By Sidney C. Lamb, F.K.H.S. 



Geographically considered, California is one of the most 

 favoured districts on the American continent. The Pacific 

 Ocean washes its entire western shore. To the east lie several 

 lesser ranges of mountains, backed up by the Eockies. The 

 Oregon State line is a continuation of California northward, 

 while to the south, genial and balmy Mexico abuts in such a 

 friendly way that the traveller must needs inquire where one 

 country ends and the other begins. Thus it is that, tempered 

 by warm trade winds from the ocean, and lofty mountain ranges 

 protecting us from the East — where the land is frozen in winter 

 and scorched in summer — Nature has smiled upon us and placed 

 every possible need of mankind within our reach 



The early history of California is so closely interwoven with 

 romance and uncertainty as to be in a sense surrounded by 

 mystery. The ruins of ancient Aztec architecture indicate a 

 remote civilisation of which we know hardly anything, and 

 while students have endeavoured to trace connections along our 



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