Archive image from page 23 of Descriptive illustrated catalog of dependable. Descriptive illustrated catalog of dependable fruit and ornamental trees : roses and palms, vines and shrubs adapted to prevailing conditions of soil and climate on the West Coast together with planting and cultural notes . descriptiveillus1925fanc Year: 1925 A SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ORANGE GROVE Planted to our stock grown from selected buds cut from record performance trees CITRUS AND TROPICAL FRUITS Within the memory of men and women still living the com- mercial culture of the orange and lemon took inception in a smal
Archive image from page 23 of Descriptive illustrated catalog of dependable. Descriptive illustrated catalog of dependable fruit and ornamental trees : roses and palms, vines and shrubs adapted to prevailing conditions of soil and climate on the West Coast together with planting and cultural notes . descriptiveillus1925fanc Year: 1925 A SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ORANGE GROVE Planted to our stock grown from selected buds cut from record performance trees CITRUS AND TROPICAL FRUITS Within the memory of men and women still living the com- mercial culture of the orange and lemon took inception in a small way in what is now Riverside County. This was made possible by the introduction of irrigation on so-called desert lands and the discovery and exploitation of the Washington navel orange, the two forming a nucleus for great achieve- ments. For the first decades progress was small, but with the advent of better transportation facilities progress was rapid, substantial and safe. From these early beginnings in Southern California citrus culture widened and spread into the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys, until its proportions total an annual shipment East of over 45,000 carloads of fruit and a gross yearly turn-over of nearly fifty millions of dollars. In later decades there was also developed an interest in certain tropical fruits such as the avocado, Feijoa, loquat, etc. Proper planting methods. Citrus trees are dug with either a ball of earth varying in weight from 25 to 40 pounds, or they are taken up with naked roots. The former method is usually followed in handling trees in California. In taking up trees with naked roots the greatest care should be exercised on the part of the planter to avoid exposure. When set the leaves should be stripped off to retard evaporation and loss of sap. In planting set the trees so that when the soil is settled the union of the bud with the stock will be at least several inches above the the ground. Be sure to settle the earth around the t
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