JOURNAL 
OP THE 
Royal Horticultural Society. 
Vol. XXII. 1898. 
Part I. 
FRUIT GROWING- IN CALIFORNIA. 
By Sidney C. Lamb, F.R.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 Rockies. 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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