Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-13
ORANGR-GROWING IN PLAt Err.
Practical Experiments of DIR. Frey, For
mer Leading Sacramento Physician.

Practical Experiments of DIR. Frey, a For
mer Leading Sacramento Physician.
EDS. RECORD UNION: have been asked
to give my experience in growing oranges
in the foothills of Placer county. To do
this, must go over much old ground, for
my experience is duplicated all around me,
and the facts that have come under my OBJ
servation are common property to all my
neighbors. But these things, well known
as they are here, will be news TO many of
our Eastern friends, who, misled by the
term Northern California" picture to
themselves country like Maine or Yer
mont, if not Alaska or Greenland. Now, l
should like to inform my Eastern friends
that for two hundred miles long and ten to
twenty miles wide, at an elevation of from
100 to 1,000 feet above the sea, we have a
climate for which temperate is too cold
a term, few light frOsts in winter, long
dry summer, with no cold blasts from the
ocean 10 bring fOgs drifting over our lands,
filling the air with moisture and putting
Bostonians in mind of their easterly winds,
that defy the thickest of clothing, and go
through to the bones of the latest. have,
in Los Angeles, been forced to go to bed to
get warm, as there was no fire i'll the hotel,
TO return 10
MY ORANGE o2CHARn.
Fifteen years ago my health compelled
me to give up my practice OF medicine, and
| looked carefully over our fair State for
the locality in which l could most speedily
recover my lost health. The result of my
personal search and inquiries led me to
settle in Placer county, about one thousand
feet above the sea, and better air, water.
prospect and equable temperature could
not be found anywhere that | know of.
The bill located on was covered with
granite rocks. many of them partially de-
composed, and the red soil between them
rich in potash and iron, proved very fertile
and so stimulating to vegetable growth that
have freqently sent the first rasp0erries of
the season to the San Francisco market.
AS intended my place TO be a sort of hor-
ticultural experiment, [ procured Il G best
varieties of all kinds of fruit trees likely
to grow and prosper under the circum-
stances in which they would be placed.
Among the trees planted some fine orange
aud lemon, which were old enough TO bear
the second year | had enough oranges TO
assure me that this was
THE HOME OF THE CITRUS FRUIT.
From this small beginning l have gone on
buying a few trees and growing others
from seed, and afterwards budding them,
until shall pick this year about 10000
oranges from a very small piece of land.
All my bearing trees would Stand on q
piece of ground very little, if any, larger
than an acre At the lowest rate at which
oranges have been sold, how much is that
an acre? That this climate is exactly
suited to the growth in perfection of the
citrus fruits has been amply proved by ex-
perience, and the reasons, therefore, are
not far to seek The orange trees do not
blossom with us until after the frosts are
over, and from the time of blossoming to
the time ofripening there ere no alterations
of low temperature to check ;he ripeDiDg
of the fruit, consequently our oranges are
generally ripe two months before those
from the southern part Of the State.
Furthermore, the oranges Of the southern
section of the State have not the rich flavor
of ours-a fact which the sacharometer
will prove better than assertion.
This hasty article is written especially
for our Eastern friends. For all in this State
| would say come to the Citrus Fair and if
ell | say, and ten times more, IS not proved,
then discredit all have written.
(DR.) J. NJ. FREY.
Newcastle, December 10, 1886.
USE st. Jacobs Oil and prove that an
ounce of prevention is worth q pound OF