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SEMI-TROPIC CALIFORNIA. 
SEMI-TROPIC 
CALIFORNIA 
AND 
SOCTflERH UlirilMli MUIPS 
Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the devel¬ 
opment of Southern California. 
Terms $1.50, per year, in advance, pottage prepaid. 
Address, CARTER k RIOE, Lob Angeles, 0*1. 
N C. CUITEK, I 
OEO. 1IICE, | 
rcDtifBcns and InopniEToni. 
CIRCULATION 
5000. 
"We have bad our fair, ami il lias been a 
success. In every point of view it was a 
grand success. Southern California has 
crossed the divide, and our progress is now 
easy. The fair of 1880 has been demon¬ 
strated that the people of this district art* 
in better circumstances financially , tlmn 
they have been for threw or four years past; 
that they have made great progress in 
horticulture and agriculture; that they wish 
to make greater progress, and for that 
purpose come together once a year, com¬ 
pare their products, and learn all they can 
from their neighbors, And tlioro was much 
to bo learned at the fair. 
Co., of San Francisco, looked through tlm 
pavilion, and said that the apple orchards 
of Northern and Central California could 
not bo culled for their finest apples and 
equal our display. 
And wo have equally pood authority on 
the subject of our 
TEAKS, 
Mr W H. Wright, formerly connected 
with the Sau Jose Fruit PnekingCompnny, 
now the superintendent of that company's 
cannery and dryer at. Riverside, said to t he 
editor of t his paper that we could not write 
too strongly iu advocating the production 
• I penis in tips district. A year’s experi¬ 
ence hero 1ms taught him that we produce 
a finer quality and as pood a yield of pears 
ns Central California, aud wo will have the 
advantage of being nearer tbo market in 
First, in regard to 
APPLES. 
Oulv four years ago, the newly arrived 
visitin’to Southern California was told by 
most all residents, mid rvndily believed, 
that this country would not produce apples 
worthy of the name ami the eating. Some 
bad planted trees, but they would nut conic 
to anything. Apples were a product ot 
northern countries, <l' cold »tr and wet 
boil; they could not lie produced where the 
converse of these facts held. W<' must 
ship our upplcs from Oregon, and pay 
$2.50 to $3 per box of less than a bushel. 
At the joint fair of IH77, knowing ones 
hinted that the fine though small display 
of tipples was chiefly imported from Ore¬ 
gon; denials had no etleut with them, and 
the public suspected they were right, In 
1878, the exhibit of apples Was small and 
confined to n few section*, but I be samples 
were of excellent quality, and everybody 
knew they find been produced here. In 
1879. the display of apples was increased 
in quantity and quality, lint it was left 
for the fair of 1881! to make the revelation 
that no country on the face of the earth 
can surpass Southern California in the pro¬ 
duction of large ami lima apples. Pro¬ 
ducers me theuini Ues surprised (hat they 
have done so well, and that so many others 
haw done equally well. We luic-w we had 
a semi-tropic country, but it turns out we 
have a temperate country ns well. We 
cun equal countries further north in their 
leading fruits. Mr Hixson. of the leading 
fruit commis.-.ion firm ol Hixson, Jusli & 
jeep sonic weeks; and indeed, are only 
good when ripened off the trees What 
do you think of that, horticulturists of 
Southern California? You can excel the 
I peats for which people of the Eastern 
States pay from ten to twenty-five cents 
apiece at retail, while a few years ago you 
thought you could not do much with pears, 
tv WHEAT ALSO 
Wo have tnadu n new departure. That 
cereal has heretofore been supposed to be 
I lie product of colder countries alone, 
Physical geographers taught it and tbo 
people believed it. But the Pacific const 
of the United States lias presented n series 
of now problems. Combinations of the 
produots of hotter and colder countries, 
not before deemed possible, have Leon 
made hero. Not the least uf these is the 
growing of wheat, that leading product of 
Russia, hide by side with oranges, olives, 
and other fruits of the Mediterranean. 
The exhibition of wheat at tlm Pavilion 
was very fine and certainly very reassuring. 
Mr. W.'E. Willmore had made a very ur- 
tistic iirraiigeinolit of wheat in the straw 
a,s a background for the stage. It was 
in imitation of the sun, With a head of 
this number with notes on (he fair and the 
list of awards by committees. It is tho 
most important subject of the year, and 
will deserve more comment from time to 
time. 
A CARD FROM EXHIBITORS. 
The success of an exposition such ns has 
been witnessed during the week in Los 
Angeles, deppnds very much upon the 
proper management in its formation, and 
during exhibition. 
Tlml the Horticultural Fair of Southern 
California lias been a most gratifying suc¬ 
cess, but 1 1 in the character and number of 
the exhibits, and the large ntleiidance of 
visitors who have thronged the hull daily, 
expressing their surprise and pleasure at 
the maginfitt&ut display on every hand, and 
of the good management at the Fair in 
the Eastern Status, Tears mo a vevy e deprffetmeut, L imivoranllv Admitted, 
marketable production, because they will — * • - •• < * •• •* 
Cores as a center, and the straws as rays. 
Tho heads of wheat were from three to 
five inches in length, large and heavy, and 
rust, which Inis been our great enemy, Wus 
nowhere to ho detected, Rust did some 
damage this year in this section, but com¬ 
pared with other years it was slight; nud 
this is attributable not to the character of 
the season, which was bad enough to mil¬ 
dew grapes in some places, but to top cor¬ 
rected choice of varieties, Samples of 
wheat in the sack, and flour, were as goad 
as ouo could wish to see. 
THE HOItTiCULTUUAL SOi'lETV 
Comes oat of this fair in much improved 
uiiciim.stunccs, financially, and with the 
full confidence of the community. It is 
now in a position to be fearless of debt. 
Jls expenses, which wore formerly very 
high, in building ami furnishing the Ravil- 
ion, have now been reduced ton minimum. 
I ho cash returns of the fair place it uu a 
firm basis, nml there is nothing to prevent 
its pushing omvurd. 
AYe have no apology to oiler for filling 
For this reason the* fallowing exhibitors 
of the Fair of 18S0 desire to express their 
appreciation of the successful efforts of 
Mr. Geo. Rice, Secretary of the* Society, 
in organizing and conducting the Fair, 
Mr. Rice came to Los Angeles only one 
year ago, nud in that short time has won 
the good opinion of all who have come in 
contact with him. 
As soon ns ho wus elected Secretary of 
the Horticultural Society ho entered upon 
the work of organizing the working forces 
of the society to develop a grand Horti¬ 
cultural Fair for {Southern California, 
which was seconded by a public-spirited 
and harmoniously-working Board, who 
aided him in every way to bring about tho 
splendid exposition of (ho products of 
Southern California just closing. 
Mr. Rice's practical sagacity and uni¬ 
form courtesy and ui baldly contributed 
so much to tho successful exhibition of 
this year, that we regard this expression of 
our appreciation uf his efforts his just due, 
J. W. Anderson; C. W Wilcox; J. W. 
Yennble; Geo. Haiter; E, 13. Grandiu; J. 
M. Asher; Kimball Bros.; H. M. Higgins; 
It. R, Bryant; M. D. Hulladny ; Joel B. 
Parker; F, M. Autlaell & Co. Situ Fran¬ 
cisco; J, R. Mendozu, San Francisco; W. 
T. Clapp; S, I). Bryant; M, Bweubaum; 
N. A. W. Kellogg; N. Levering; J. N. 
Gilchrist; John \\. Wilson; David Town¬ 
send; G. D. Compton; E. M. Hamilton; 
J. 13. Clapp; Dr. Ezra S. Cm r; Mrs. Jennie 
C. Carr; Sherman, Hyde A Co., Safi Fran¬ 
cisco; L. J Stengel; 13. W. Mower; W. H. 
Kimball; nud many other exhibited .—Lou 
AnejdcH JixpvceiS. 
CARD FROM MR. RICE. 
Mr George Bice, Secretary of the 
Southern California Horticultural So¬ 
ciety desires to Bay to exhibitoiH. assist¬ 
ants,'visitors, mid all concerned, that he 
is grateful to them for tbo confidence they 
have shown in tho management of tho fair 
of 1881 ); and that to their efforts '* duo the 
success which has crowned tho umkwluk- 
The people of Southern California 
ImTe shown that they understand how to 
pliiow their products before the public for 
iheir mutual i.-nligbUmment aud the post¬ 
ing of strangers. 
