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SEMI-TROPIC 
CALIFORNIA 
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SEMI-TROPIC CALIF*>RS r TA. 
Wrm the present number we clone the 
1 third year of the Horticulturist, the Skmi- 
j Tropic California having absorbed it out. 
[year Ago. The past year bua been a sue- 
!“*• n,ld '** l ,0l,lifihera ™ ,m ' " ,nV * ' 1,11,1 ; b' 1 |™ I of her e.-diK^S^i.^l^ 
sati -ri.-.l. Wc havD g oOfr WTOAftW toOOtt-»,i r . \ Vt , an n l„ 0 g | ad to h„ t „ re- 
Tlic 
HORTICULTURAL FAIR, 1880. 
It gives us much pleasure to report Iho 
success of our Horticultural Fair ns u 
grand exposition, showing the capabilities 
of the. soil. Southern California can well 
port a financial success ns well, 
result* of Iho fair foot tip ns follows: 
'I * >t n 1 receipts 
Expenses of Fair 
I’t'eumims ... ■ 
/rrm* */. 
in ndmi. 
■rr>f>ri ill. 
A-idr^s, OABTER 4 RIOE, Ln* lojtltt, Cal. 
<o:o. | 1 ' •>> ■-••• i*io*»mu«'w. 
CIRCULATION . - 6000 
Ii this paragraph is marked, it menus 
that your subscription expire* with this 
number. If you wish to coatiliM(<unl wn 
hope you do), please remit. fl.f>0,the sub¬ 
scription price mid your unrne will he 
placed on our 1881 )jet. If not cojiu nir nt 
to remit at once, drop us n postal, saying 
l<> continue, and at xvliat time yon w ill re¬ 
mit. 
Wi, do not wish to drop n single mib- 
rru iher, but we will not enter up a single 
imme on mir new hooks. unless prepaid, 
or promise to pay very soon. 
In addition to renewing your own suili- 
■'' 11 . can’t y.u. get » new*«Wriber? 
Fun j.eison in Huuthurn California inter- 
esl.-d in agriculture should have our 
paper. 
, 0,111 Pnaintru Mu', - \\’o have h.-ughf 
the entire edition of Bancroft's map of 
t'alifornin, Nevada, Arixoua, and T.tnh 
hound in doth, and sold heretofore at 
*1 51), Winch will he given to every »uh 
^•uhei who l«ys till) subscription price of 
M,.u advance. This offer hold* good 
as lung as nur uiapM hold out. 
01,1 * ,Tr number. Jiinunrv, lKM will 
JSS™ 8 ® a, “' Wl)l handsomely j 
,,n i‘ U ’i J i"" ' Ui : F""'T nl *«•« w«' have 
hri i’dn !' |,Ml > w,r - Tll ‘.' 
,T, f " l ^l‘aud.oij M Hln„d linen dlu* 
PffV **** puhliHlmd on tlio l’neilie I 
' „ . Uu, y "Uhscrilwr* will re 
pint ni ag cents. .Send 
once, or subscribe now 
jgniti(lute (he public on the work we have 
, done, arid which they have so generously 
! pukIji iiu il by their substantial aid nud kind 
word- ni appreciation 
The SWr-TnojicC aufoknia, started ns nti 
immigration paper, and afterwardsCofiSoli- 1 
dated with the S-ulhrr n Cflhfhnnii l/urli- fg e p proceeds 
has hem will ... 'il hv I In : Bouts before Fair. 12(1 (id 
agricultural and horticultural world, and I _ - 
tu-duy tokos rank ns the foreiuuat liorMtjttl-|® lund ,ulnl 8'2,l 1 .if.. 85 
.*11,927.65 
*1,185.115 
liU5 05 
-1,790 70 
?2,13(i 85 
turn! paper on llm 1‘ucilic Coast 
As mi iruiuigrtitiori paper, wo have done n 
gland work, by indueing many people to 
change lh»'ir culil, bleak homun in the 
East, fur homes of comfort in onr genial 
and health-giving climate of Southern 
California. 
The circulation of 5,000 copies ouch 
month of the Si mi-Tkoimc hus been done ut 
Ihe i xpcuRi- of n few, and thn benetits 
have been and will be reaped by nil. Shall 
«t continue our Eastern circulation? Our 
home circulation is larger than any other 
agricultural or horticultural paper on this 
cun at. 
The total /injiiunt that, would have linen 
left in the treasury would have been 
•2,25(1 85, luil thn debts of the previous 
year have nearly taken nil I his balance; but 
it is right to pay holiest debts, and it 
gives us pleasure to be able to report 
money on baud at the close of the fair, 
after paying all the premiums and other 
expenses promptly, instead of repot tiug 
n deficit, and ti lling tlmsB who were 
•vvunleil premiums that they must bo 
content, with the glory, that, there is uo 
ffioney in the treasury. 
\\ lint would have luen much moicBut- 
iHfnelory to us individually, would have 
been thn 
11111 UPS 
i in your urdoi - m 
excursion party, 
Mr. Charies Smith and wife nf Luwn-n,, 
wi £ f ; Novonibcr to 
• >f wLiii • ° " “ o' 1 ! orly ' f,v,r one half 
Thev'!i 11 " ‘ l,,lu "■ **» Ang. lew, 
n, ' ,U * U “* phased With 
; 41 "Op^woUH of Southern Calif 
nt». and most „f || 1C(11 p Urjl01H! ^ 
| i»luiBh(ij[. here in our mild alitutiUi 
ft 
Loh Angeles County Hank. 
Funuers and Mcrcboqtl linnk 
First National Bank 
Jut ham Binby. 
Fhineas Banning 
li. F. Coulter. 
Brunson A Wells, 
tiiiv. J uo. (i. Downey. 
L)otl,tr A Bradley, 
Dillon A hcnualy. 
A ml row OhiHsclI. 
.1 J'l. Hollenhei'k. 
Harper. Moore A Co. 
Hummel A Deuki i 
1AV. Hull man. 
Hnineemau & Fibs, 
• liirksoii, KerckhufT.V Cuzm r. 
Fan Franco Kutati . 
F Fiohtcnhergci 
U alter S. Moore 
W, 8 Maxwell. 
H Nowmark £i Co. 
K. Nttud A C.. 
Dr IF S. (ti'ine, 
Ferry Woodworth ,V t ., 
Pacific Btennihhip t 
i'oiiet A On . 
Ficus- & Fironi. 
i K. Rowan A Co, 
L. ■]. Rose. 
Riverside FnndTCo, 
J. M. Slaw wn. 
■1 Du Barth Shorb. 
Wteuriich Rancho. 
R M. Widm.iy, 
ni the appropriation of the $2,255.85 
\\ p take pleasure in acknowledging to I'""'*-. .Is of the fair to the finishing up of 
whom the credit,of our Eastern circulation , ' K ' Favilion; our auerc-a would have been 
is due, and herewith publish i. list of the. much rm.ro. 
The premium list of *('.05, and the 8113 
additional premiums of the Agricultural 
Society, increasing the premium list to 
$718 cosh, is inoie mumy than any other 
Kocieh on thin coast, has awarded for agi i- 
injltur.il and hoitioulturul products, We 
avo ail agricultural people, and we would 
ifcetnnuieud the incmifiiug of the premium 
list for the next annual fair to at least 
[ $1.000. 
As IMl’OKrvj. i Ei i. iins will Im held in 
otir oniec, Tm sdny, Dec. 21 (room Nf 1, 
Baker block), by thr* uu. hiIjch of the 
j Horticultural Hqciftty, to vote on the 
proposition of uniting rhm society with 
Hm Sixth Dislmit Agrii’idlmat \saocia 
tnui, the mauiigi-uioiit id both to he limb i 
He Agricultural Society, ,j lt , 
attciidauoe will he large, and every mem 
lx I present, give .• v,>,. f„ |„* H v ir,u 4 
ltd vote as he thinks thn l.r-l tnlei,.,is 
of mu community will ba udvaiiccd Vs 
scerel.oy of lie- Ho| liflullural Soelet v it 
would not he 
... "I us in niivimnle 
, r ;'do of III, « | u mi ion and simply 
1 'uun-uneenmiit. hoping Hun iil 
Ilerested will l„. |ltl M .„t, and vote on 
, Hjo ipiestions Buhnaitted. 
Bv the ipcjucst of ..ami commit 
lees ui other pat t iif Hum dint net, the South 
m'.'l n"- m t !' U '“ h Espumtio,, will he 
held in Huh oily at il 
Favilion, one week, M 
elusive. 
lie 
laich 
Horticulturul 
I I to 19, in- 
