. The city and county of San Diego : illustrated and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers . CHAPTER III. (^;<^i. BEGINNING OF FRUIT AND VINECULTURE. OR a long time it was supposed that fruit and grapes, aswell as garden-stuff, could not be grown in Californiawithout irrigation. The irrigation facilities of this county,being generally expensive, were not developed to anyextent. Even in the few places where water was cheaplyobtained there was no encouragement to raise wagon load of any kind of fruit would drug the SanDiego market and shipping it farther wa
. The city and county of San Diego : illustrated and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers . CHAPTER III. (^;<^i. BEGINNING OF FRUIT AND VINECULTURE. OR a long time it was supposed that fruit and grapes, aswell as garden-stuff, could not be grown in Californiawithout irrigation. The irrigation facilities of this county,being generally expensive, were not developed to anyextent. Even in the few places where water was cheaplyobtained there was no encouragement to raise wagon load of any kind of fruit would drug the SanDiego market and shipping it farther was out of the ques-tion. Some made a few dollars by selling to theirneighbors; but most of the neighbors preferred to waituntil they could get it for nothing. To raise fruit or even vegetablesfor ones own use was not only expensive but vexatious, on accountof birds, rabbits, squirrels, etc., which concentrate upon an isolatedpatch of anything green in summer; and the farmer soon concluded itwas cheaper to buy from someone else, or go without, than to botherwith such things. A few, however, as far back as ten years ago, hadorchards and g
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