Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-02-02

az well as southern California, 80
much the better for the whole state.
Ii they cannot, no number Of citrus
fairs, and no amount OF booming
can help the matter. II we had in
California ten bearing citrus trees
where we have one, there would be
no danger OF overlooking the market.
The consumption in the whole coun..
try Is enormous, and California and
Florida have not yet supplied one
half Of il.
Now, concerning this question Of
''northern citrus fruits" we do not
believe good marketable oranges and
lemons can DO produced in any guam
tity north OF Santa Barbara county.
We found this opinion upon what we
know OF the climate OF California
after living in the State twenty-five
years. A lemon orchard will not live
where the thermometer falls below
80 degrees Fahrenheit every winter
The orange is harder and bears cold
better than the lemon. But good,
sweet orange cannot be produced
without plenty Of warm sunshine. II
Is the experience OF citrus fruit grow
ers in Southern California that first
rate oranges are only produced in
certain localities, even here. For ex-
ample, we grow oranges in all our
gardens here in the city Of San Diego,
and the fruit is large and beautiful 10
the eye. But II does not compare
with that raised In some Of the in
terror valleys. Yet the records OF
the Signal Office show that the Their
mometer has fallen as low as 40 deg.
only 43 times, and as low as 32 deg.
only imicc in the last ten years, and
that II has not once fallen below that
point. But, on the other hand, the
same records show that the Their
mometer has recorded here a higher
temperature than 80 deg. ON but l2O
out Of 1858 days in the last ten years
that there were but Al days on which
IL registered above 80 deg, but %
days on which II registered above 30
deg, but 4 days on which il regis |
tered above 95 deg, and only one day
on which il rose above 100 deg. the
highest recorded temperature during
the whole period Of ten years being
i0l deg, September %, 1888. This
explains the lack OF sweetness and
flavor in our town raised oranges rs
compared with those grown at Pala,
where frost has never been known,
and where the thermometer passes
the nineties and frequently goes above
the hundred pointin the summer and
fall months; or in the Jamul Valley,
where the name climatic conditions
prevail or in the Sweetwater, Cajon,
and dozen other valleys, where the
summer and fall temperature will
average ten degrees higher than here
at the seaside. We find tine same
thing true in Los Angeles and
San Bernardino counties. To get
perfection in an orange, heat and
continuous heat is required, with
winters in which frost is the rare ex-
ception. 1t Is not 10 much so with
the lemon. That delicate tree will
not bear even the lightest frost, but IT
does not demand 10 much heat. We
produce as perfect lemons in our
town gardens as are grown anywhere.
II Is a perfectly well known fact
that in Northern California the ther-
mometer gets down to 80 degrees, and
below that point good many days
every winter. 1t is quite true that
the summers are bot-a good deal
hotter than in Southern California
but the heat does not come at the
right time, and does not continue
long enough. In the north it begins
10 grow co 81 in September cooler in |
October, and cold in November. In
the south the fall months are warmer |
~ tha Aarlxt N
fact we have the perfection OF orange |
growing weather for full six months
from June LIST to December LIST. And
this makes the difference.
1t is very probable that in a few
peculiarly situated spots in Northern
California fair sort of orange can be |
grown. This, however, is not orange |
culture for paying market.
The Colusa sam, a paper edited by
Will s. Green, prominent Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor and a
gentleman who lives in the newly |
discovered citrus belt, approaches a |
consideration of the subject with |
many misgivings. He INDUCES in
none of the extravagant fanfaronade
of the Call, which lately pronounced
the Northern counties of California
the true citrus belt lie says;
The Les Angeles HERALD charges
that citrus fruit exhibited at Sac
ramento, and nov AT San Francisco,
was stolen from the Southern coun-
ties, and still AYERS that Northern
California will not produce the orange.
The editor says that l.. L. Moulton,
OF Colusa, some years ago purchased
at Los Angeles some six thousand
orange trees and planted them out,
after which he blanketed them, but,
in spite OF all efforts, lost all but one.
Mr.. Moulton did purchase some two
hundred orange trees at Los Angeles,
but he did not blanket them, nor did
he save one tree--they all died. What
he has were grown from the seed up
here, and this is fact worth know
ing. Plant trees from Northern mar
series. No one has had any trouble
who has done this, whereas we
learn that trees brought from Los
Angeles do not thrive well.
Why 1t is, we do not know. A
fact can stand by itself--a theory
cannot, hence facts are better than
theories. II trees from southern
nurseries are planted, then protect
them from frost for the first two years
at least after planting-then there is
no danger; and, by the way, Senator
johnson, of Riverside, said that 1t
was the practice of the growers down
there to protect their trees for the
first two years. 1t is inexpensive
and should be followed everywhere.
Now, we want to put in word OF
protest against any sectional ami
mostly on this business, or any other.
We are proud OF every inch Of Cali
fornia's soil. We glory in the I'M
paralleled success of Los Angeles,
Riverside and other districts, where
the people have had the pluck to
show what could be done. We would
not crown Northern California by
plucking one sprig OF bays-one or
ange hlossom-from our southern
neighbors. They are entitled to all
they have. We have ar unadver-
tised country up here, however,
matchless in its resources, the prob
abilities oil which the oldest lnhabl-
tants can scarcely grasp.
The Sonoma Democrat strikes diff
ferent keynote. 1t runs through the
following amusing gamut:
The most outrageous article we
have seen in print for a long time,
appeared in the Los Angeles HERALD
Of recent date. denouncinR the citrus
fair at Sacramento as fraud, and
boldly charging that the oranges ex-
hibited there were Los Angeles oran
ges falsely represented as being OF
northern growth. 1t speaks of the
exhibition as Peter Funk enormity,
ridicules the climate of Northern Cal
ifornia, and says that before the pres
ent season closes every orange tree in
the northern part of the State will be
frozen to the roots. We are prepared