Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-02-13
Extension Of Fruit Culture.

There has been quite an awakening
within the last three years, says the
Pacific RurdL Press, in regard to the
culture of fine fruits, and particularly
the more semi-tropical ones. We hear
of one or more persons in almost every
locality in California, where it is be-
lieved that these fruits can be cult
waited successfully, who have already
planted or are intending to plant,
hundreds of orange, lemon and lime
trees. Another is going extensively
into almond culture or English wal
nuts; anothc figs, solely with view Of
packing them for the worlds market,
and yet another proposes to start
grand plantation of bananas in the
vicinity of San Diego.
Now it is q question with some
whether we are not altogether over
doing the thing, whether we are not
extending our fruit culture faster than
the demand will warrant. We do not
believe that California has it in her
power to go so far beyond any other
country Of earth as to become pro-
ducer beyond the worlds wants. Fine
fruits are higher in all the markets Of
Europe to-day than they were twenty
years ago. The same is true of all
fine fruits possible to be raised in any
part Of the Atlantic States; and yet
their culture is every year extending.
Californians should bear in mind
that for all semi-tropical fruits, who
have a great northern, northeastern
and eastern country to supply; that all
that vast area is too elevated, too cold
to be productive of q single one of the
fruits we have named as semi-tropical
and must rely entirely upon California
for its supply. Directly inland and
eastwardly we can go with our fruits
to the city of st. Louis, and undersell
them in the very items of oranges,
lemons, lines, figs, almonds and wal
nuts, Notwithstanding their direct
communication blythe Mississippi river
with the Gulf States, louisiana and
Texas. =..--...--,-=..-..--....
Hence we argue that the field is
wide for the dissemination of the fruits
likely to be produced in California for
a century to come, or else our land
will differ from all other lands in it's
powers of fruit production. We be-
lieve our nurserymen are acting wise
ly in keeping good their stocks Of
choice trees of the best varieties; and
CalifOrnians owning lands susceptible
of fruit production should lose no time
and nowis just the time--in making
their selections of trees for planting. Y
A writer in Hdrpe,'s Magazine says:
"OregOn, if one may judge by the fos-
sill remains in C0ndon's collection,
seems once to have been inhabited by
u great number and variety of pre-
Adamite beasts; but the most singular
object he has to show is a very strik-
ing apes head, carved with great spirit
and vigor out of hard lava. This OBJ
jet was found upon the shore of the
Columbia Islands, after q flood which
had washed away piece of old alluvial
bank. The rock of which it is COM
posed is quite hard. The carving Is,
us j said, done with remarkable vigor,
and the top of the head Is followed
out, precisely as the Indians still make
shallow depressions in fragments of
slate, in which to burn what answers
in their religious ceremonies for in
cense. But, supposing this relic
to belong to Oregon = anu there is, l
was told, no other reason to believe
otherwise-where did the Indian who
carved it get the idea of an ape? The
Indians of this region, poor creatures
that they are, have still tina habit of
carving rude figures out of slate and
other soft rocks. They have also the
habit of cutting out shallow, dish-like
depressions in the heads Of such
figures, wherein to burn incense. But
they could not give Condor any ac-
count of the apes head they brought
him, nor did they recognize its fea-
lures as resembling any object or
creature familiar to them even by
tradition 3ttss iA%A