FRUIT REPORTS. 
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After many -months correspondence with Rev. W. H. Winters, of Phoenix, 
Arizona, and his subsequent resignation from the Committee, I found it 
impossible to secure a successor who would make a report for Arizona, al- 
though several recommendations were made by the retiring member, and 
appointments were made in accordance with them. 
In the report of Mr. J. E. Cutter, of Riverside, Cal., he says: 
“It is not practicable to make such a report as may be desired by and for 
the purposes of the Society, and I can give merely some review of the 'pre- 
sent status and trend of our industry. 
“The acreage is but slowly increasing. During the present season new 
plantings of favorable lands have only amounted to a few hundred acres. 
“The water supply which is so important a factor in the production of 
good fruit, has been adequate for all necessities. 
“The crop of the closing season has been approximately one million four 
hundred thousand boxes (1,400,000) from the Riverside groves and the 
largest in our history. 
“The crop of the coming season will be a light one, perhaps less than a 
half crop, nor will the output be made up by the coming in of new groves, 
for the large plantings of the past are already in fruiting. 
“A large proportion of the old seedling groves have been recently budded 
to Navel [Bahia] and so are temporarily out of bearing. 
“The Navel [Bahia] is more than ever in favor— all other varieties are out 
of the race, except Hart Late often called Valencia Late which is the 
necessary and best complement of the Navel, for with it the marketing season 
of the year is covered. 
“Such specialties as the Tangerine orange and the pomelo (or grape-fruit) 
have obtained increased prominence. The pomelo last year up is now down , 
however. This may nevertheless be changed when the Seedless or some 
still better and now unknown variety shall reach the markets. 
“In the past, the proportion of lemon trees, as compared with the orange 
in Riverside, was the merest fraction; there are now here several hundred 
acres of young groves already in bearing. These are of carefully chosen 
varieties and are yielding a product of the finest character. They are prin- 
cipally in the hands of large corporations, which have command of technical 
skill and sources of information which the handling of the lemon requires, 
and can do their own marketing. 
“It is the writer’s conviction that the lemon industry is destined to perman- 
ence and great magnitude. Corona, formerly known as South Riverside, 
has gone largely into the lemon business, and is pursuing it with much 
success — the same may be said of the production of the orange. 
“In the newer districts of Moreno, Alessandro and Perris, and also in West 
Riverside the citrus industry has been established under favorable circum- 
stances. 
“In this county the fruit is yet generally free from the scale insects; the 
pest exists here rather as a threat, than as a generally prevailing nuis- 
ance, and is vigorously fought by the local Horticultural Board, supported 
toy the citizens. 
“I will not assume to report for districts beyond county limits.” 
The above report of Mr. J. E. Cutter was written before the close of 1898. 
It is quite proper to add that the unprecedented drought which has pre- 
vailed through Southern California during the past two years has made so 
little change in the then prevailing conditions that no additional report seemed 
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