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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . See Fig. 317. Statistics are apt to be dull reading, but the horticul-ture of California can be shown only by some of its re-sults in recent years. Let us glance at a few of therecords. Take the well-known industrv of raisin-mak-ing. In 1873, 120,000 pounds were in Califo
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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . See Fig. 317. Statistics are apt to be dull reading, but the horticul-ture of California can be shown only by some of its re-sults in recent years. Let us glance at a few of therecords. Take the well-known industrv of raisin-mak-ing. In 1873, 120,000 pounds were in Califor-nia. By 1894 this cro). had gmwii 1(1:1,IKK),Odil interstate sliipmcnts of fnsli fruits. hft;inning latein the seventies, rose by 1804 to nearly 180,000,000pounds. The interstate shipments of dried fruits rosebetween 1884 and 1897, from about 2,000,000 pounds to1,50,000,000 pounds. During the same period of only 13years, the product of beet-sugar increased from about2,000,000 to over 70,000,000 pounds. Oranges, for manyyears a noted California product, rose between 1884 and1898, from 850,000 boxes to 4,640,000 boxes. Turning tosome other separate industries, in 1897 the dried apricotcrop was over ,S0,000,000 pounds, the prune crop wasover 97,000,000 pounds, the dried peach crop was over. ARIZONA Fig. 317. Horticultural regions of California. 27,000,000 pounds. The wine-production of the state in1897 was 34,500,000 gallons. The pack of canned fruitin 1898 was 2,000,000 cases. In 1893, in a very carefultabulation of the area planted to fruit-trees and vines, made by me for the Popular Science Monthly, I esti-mated as follows: Kind Acreaui Citrus and semi-tropic [ Deciduous fruits Nut-beariug trees • Grapes I!;i:i3 Small fruits Total 517,014 At the usual distances of planting, this would give48,000,000 fruit trees and about 240,000,000 1893 nearly six years have passed, and yet theacreage has not greatly gaine
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