Archive image from page 286 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer02bail2 Year: 1900 HOETICULTURE HORTICULTURE 769 ern Europe—olives, figs, oranges, lemons, pomegranates, wine grapes, and also apples, pears and peaches. Early in this century the mission of San Gabriel bad over 2,000 fruit tree
Archive image from page 286 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer02bail2 Year: 1900 HOETICULTURE HORTICULTURE 769 ern Europe—olives, figs, oranges, lemons, pomegranates, wine grapes, and also apples, pears and peaches. Early in this century the mission of San Gabriel bad over 2,000 fruit trees, and others had more than a thousand. Fig. 1094 shows the yard of San Juan Capistrano Mission, as it existed in 1889. There are also some traces in Califor- nia of the fruits of the few early Russian settlements. With the American occupation and the immigration from the East, came the eastern American types of fruits, and the state is now the seat of a wonderfully varied fruit culture, although the small fruits have not yet attained that prominence which they enjoy in older countries. Details of the early Cali- fornian Horticulture are given for this occasion by Charles Howard Shinn. The first official horticultural re- ports from Califoinia ap- peared in the second part of the United States Patent Office Report for 1851. In this report, Mr. A. Williams, of San Francisco, presented statistics from the Horner Ranch, near the Mission San Jose, Alanieda county,where 800 acres were planted in vegetables and the crop of 1851 sold for upwards of $200,000. The crop of pota- toes, onions, beets, turnips and tomatoes was 134,200 bushels. The same report noted an onion weighing 21 pounds, and at the Fair of 1853 the committee on vege- tables reported a 'white flat turnip' weighing 33 pounds, a squash that weighed 121 pounds, and a tomato weigh- ing 5K pounds. Thus early California began to boast of 1094. the mammoth productions of her soil. The first official report printed in Califo
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