Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-01-24
They Want Oranges, Lemons, APP
ricots. Lines, Poetic Peaches
and Prosaic Potatoes.


to bring good prices on the bare markets
there prevailing at the moment. Grow
ers should at once send information to
the committee in this city setting forth
when their fruit will be ready, at what
point IL is to be handled, how many
boxes there will be at given date, and
the name. grade and quality Of the
fruit.
But the purpose Of the present writing
is to show the wide field opening before
this infant organization at its
very birth. Fruit dealers in
the great cities Of the West. when they
have made arrangements with the agents
for their supplies of citrus fruits, with the
shrewdness OF fAr.seeing business men
look into the future and ask why the
Society has taken the word scitrus" as
the characteristics of their society to the
exclusion OF all the other products Of the
soil OF Semi Tropic California? They 60
on to say that when Summer comes and
the citrus fruit crop gives place to
the deciduous varieties, they will be
glad TO take them in liberal amount.
The rarer kinds are what are most in de-
mand. Apricots and nectarines seem to
take the lead in this line. But fresh
grapes in train lots, say 10 cars In
train, handled by the Union at such low
freight rates as they can certainly obtain,
and well scattered in the various cities
Of the valleys Of the Mississippi and of
the great Lakes, SO that they can be sold
at about 12A cents pound retail, can be
handled in endless quantities.
SPRING VEGETABLES WANTED.
At this time there is very active in
quiry there for Spring vegetables in many
quarters. Those who are by ex-
perience familiar with the condi-
ton OF vegetables in the frozen
zones Of the Northern States
during the spring months will not be
surprised to learn this fact. Potatoes,
cabbages, turnips, carrots and parsnips
are ali they have. One wants three
vegetables on the table to make regu-
laiion meal. II these strictly ligumen-
GUS varieties are supplemented by rice.
hominy and maccaroni, there is not
much change possible, and in the short
space OF q week the list is very likely to
be duplicated more than once. One can
stand potato every day, Of course. but
when it comes to turnips on Sunday,
Tuesday and Friday, varied by parsnips
on the other four days Of the week, the
thing gets to be monotonous after from
six to eight months. Then, again, these
supplies Of winter vegetables are taken
ont Of their places in the earth in Sep
tember or October and put Away in cell
lars or buried in pits to keep them from
the frost After lying that way for half
winter the roots and cabbage heads
become of quality. In the spring
months it is all but impossible to find
palatabie article OF vegetable ia the
best mark cts Of that country. The
staieness added to the monotony then is
reached, with results far from tempting to
an appetite not particularly sharp at the
best.
The query at the East now is, Why
cannot Southern California help the
people OF the East out OF this serious
difficulty about their diet, The dealers
say that coming down even to potatoes
and cabbages, they want liberal supply
OF these at once. The want them for
che next three months. February,
March and April are the periods when
they find most difficulty in putting be-
fore their customers an article OF diet In
the vegetable line which has not been
pressed into service 20 long ON q stretch
that the consumers have not had it ad
nauseam. They find it hard to get
something in this line which is sound.
The cabbages and potatoes going out
from here would be new and fresh.
They would have been dug from the
earth where they grew but few days
previous to being put on the tables Of
consumers. What an acceptable change
dish Of new potatoes would be this
Sunday morning at the end OF January
in Chicago, A head OF nice, crisp,
fresh cabbage would make dieh Of
slaw so much better then the stale. half
decayed one from some frozen cellar
would be.
These are all the benighted green gro
GERS Of those Hyperborean regions ask
for. Not that they would not be pleased
to feast their eyes on the sight Of car
load Of beautiful, snow-white caulifiow-
ers, each the size of big Mexican hat.
The thought Of o dish OF peas. tender and
delicious as theirs are in midsummer,
never entered their minds. But here
are the facts, that in addition to the
plebeian potato and the krnut creating
cabbage, South California can supply the
whole frozen East all through
their long, dreary. so-called Spring with
the most delicious vegetables in the
world. Instead Of corn beef and cab
bage the Chicagoan can have California
Spring lamb and peas in inid-winter.
Instead Of stale turnips he eau regale
his weary palate ON a fresh caulifiower
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culent. He can sary the very indiges,i-
BILE and wholly innntritious parsnip,
which his soul loathes after ak months
siege Of it. with q dish Of crisp. ten
der lettuce. He can make dressing for
it OF California mustard, and oil. II he
wants an article Of vinegar, which he
may be cure is not sulphuric nor muri-
attic acid in disguise, he will get it from
some dealer in pure, California goods.
Spread over this mayonnaise garniture
OF handful Of sliced California olives
and he will surely have
"A dainty dish to lay before the King.
Gourmaad or Gourmet will in this
sketch find an idea to set the salivary
glands in state of excited activity.
There is food for thought in
these statements for Eastern peo-
Die who would like to find
an article Of wholesome diet in the vege-
table line during the long weeks Of
eprine. when It is hard at best to keep
in perfect health after their long winter
confinement in superheated air. ex-
changed when they step outside their
doors for Whit that goes into the lungs
like an icicle The weary monotony OF
their food pals on the appetite, and the
system Il reduced to low ebb in it's
impaired vitality. There ia as much pith
in Il for the California ranchman,
now TO GROW RICH.
There are in this city number OF peo-
pie looking around for way to grow
rich. Five acres OF damp or irrigabIe
lands properly cultivated would produce
an enormous amount cf garden sass, !"
"a they call it in the far East The
whole plot--every foot OF it--ean be
kept covered with a big growth OF
leguminous products all the year round.
Thore is not a month when the land
will not be in use, and several
crops can be gathered in the
year, 80 that the i've acres will be worth
more than thirty would be In any other
country, IL will be comparatively easy
business for man to do his work, and
he can make comfortable living. All
he has TO do is to get the proper sort Of
soil. with The certainty Of water, pro-
cure the best seed for the rarer and
choicer kinds Of vegetables, and then
take good care of his ranch" He can
keep chickens. pig or two to eat the
refuse, be can have patch of small fruits,
peach, apricot, cherry and walnut tree.
lin a word, one or two Of several kinds
Of fruit trees and hedge Of gum trees
to break the north wind and furnish
fuel, and here he has as snug home a.
any poor man in the world. This de-
mand for California vegetables as well
as for her fruits, will grow and those
who know how 10 take care ot them