. 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. e are localities especially welladapted to its culture, there nre some regions in thecoast range as well as in tlu Sirir;i Ncviida iiniiiitainswhere the low winter temperaturi proliihits its question of soil also enti-rs largely intu this pmli-lem, and considerable specia
. 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. e are localities especially welladapted to its culture, there nre some regions in thecoast range as well as in tlu Sirir;i Ncviida iiniiiitainswhere the low winter temperaturi proliihits its question of soil also enti-rs largely intu this pmli-lem, and considerable special knowledge is required inorder to make a judicious selection. The southern portion of the state was first selected asmost promising, biit since about 1800 every year hasshown a vast widening-out and extension of the Orangebelt. The business did not assuinr any -iitninfiTial im-portance till 1880, when, and for some years afterwards,Orange groves were planted with feverish haste, conse-quent upon the enormous prices obtained for the a natural outcome thousands of inferior trees wereset out, unsuitable varieties in unsuitable localities, andseedlings which were of little value. The nurserymencould not grow stock fast enough, and the stock wasoften bought a year in advance. In a few years, 1562 A Cahfornia Orange erove Orange culture became better understood, until in 1899the returns made by the county assessors showed an acre-age in Orange trees alone, not including lemons, of 35,000,or 3,500,000 trees, nearly half of which were in bearing. 1160 ORANGE Tlie foot-hill region of the Sierras was soon found tobe capable of producing Bne Oranges, notably in Placercounty; later on in Kern, Tulare, and Fresno counties,and in the whole of the Sacramento and San Joaquinvalleys were found large areas where Oranges could liegrown as fine as those in southern California, and insome instances they were found to ripen earlier. In some places, notably about Oroville in But
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