The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . been shipped out of the State on a commercialscale, and no one knew that they could be, profitably. The central and 428 CALIFORNIA FRUITS : HOW TO GROW THEM northern districts threw their full strength into the deciduous fruitinterest and the result has justified the effort, for, at the present time,the annual shipments of deciduous orchard fruits fresh dried andcanned; the grape, both fresh, as raisins and as wi
The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . been shipped out of the State on a commercialscale, and no one knew that they could be, profitably. The central and 428 CALIFORNIA FRUITS : HOW TO GROW THEM northern districts threw their full strength into the deciduous fruitinterest and the result has justified the effort, for, at the present time,the annual shipments of deciduous orchard fruits fresh dried andcanned; the grape, both fresh, as raisins and as wine and brandy, hasreached a total value of about forty millions of dollars—almost all ofit from the regions of California north of the Tehachapi engrossing requirements of this grandly successful undertakinggave northern growers, packers and capitalists no leisure to think seri-ously of citrus fruit planting—that was left for a decade and a half tothe special attention of the southern California people, and they de-veloped it splendidly for the settlement and upbuilding of their portionof the State—reaching a total value of product sold beyond State lines,.
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