Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-09
RLyERsIDR.
Interesting Papers by the
Horticulturalists.
nm sRBAr CITRUS DISPLAY.
Tho Visitors Treated to q Drive
Through the Surrounding
Country.


Country.
At2P. NJ, Tuesday, large audi
ence gathered at the First Con
sxegatioual church at Riverside
8 receive the Horticulturalists
md to listen to the excellent
popers and valuable discussions or
he great and all important themes
1he address Of welcome was delivered
~ the Rev. Geo. H. Deere, of River.
aide, and was in substance as follows
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FELLow HORT
cuIrURIsrs FROM THE FAR EAsr.-S0uthern
California in genera and Riverside in par
tce ~ through me would utter IT'S most cor
Gfnl erecting and wNmest welcome. UuI
1nt< 16gence Is OF such kind as to appreciate
TIE TACT that the practical alh0rttculturalists re
oQiYe not only muscle and sinew but brains
The substance of our welcome you have al
teaay received. 1t met you when ysur eyes
uoce weary with pictures of desolatlon on
yQur approach to eur borders. The raisinf
we're honied words from our vineyards. The
oranses golden speech from our orchards,
end tho flowers the smiles of our fair wo.
Aon. You were doubtless made to feel that
you were indeed approaching Eden Milton,
Uho b good authority in matters of tradition
s.Eden stretched its line
From Auran presumably Los Angeles)
g the royal towers of Selencia" (borders oi
ArixonA). In this fertile soil (san Bernar-
dino. Los Angeles and San Diego
ssdsn. Goa Ordained. All % tGees o} }sssno. she no.
61ess kind for sight, smell. taste, he caused
- grow; and amidst them stood the tree Of
HE, high, eminent. blooming ambrosial,
side washington Naval Dr.. J. P. Greevy
and Jude Brown in June, 1870, believed
they had found the site of the old garden
though reduced to desert by the ages since
tho tirst h0rticulturalists were turned out
ker DR.. Greevy, with the veteran colonist
Jude and John w. North was the first to
lodge within its limits. DR.. Shugart and Dr.
Eastman and others soon Joined them. Doc
torn, lawyers, clergymen and men of cult
ure were numerous among these adventur-
DrD. They began tO build, what they hardly
knew themselves. 1t was sorry work amid
tie frowning mountains. 1t was all climate
mem Here aud there they planted little
sprouts and watered hem year after year as
ee1t they could, waiting all the time pa
Eeutly for the result. Los Angeles and San
8eFnardino. only small settlements, laughed
= what they considered the fooIhardiness
Of the sturdy settlers, and even now they
don't or pretend not to. know what v e have
done. 8. y. Evans came Ave years later. He
wrote to exc vernon Downey, asking as
TO the advisability of move to River.
s1de. That worthy gentleman told him to
never undertake it, as it was a God forssken
country. But Notwithstanding this men of
1nteingence, brain and culture saw a future
e sss pses ana spa Sda 1sfe Snd behold
Won meet a " u-'.-n who stood erm by her de.
termination in these c.riy pioneer days Of
trial-uncover your head in her ressueS
The tradition some of them recently dis
covered, concerning our pet orange, think
had better give you The nuptial festivi-
ties Of juno, Queen Of the Olympian Heaven n
were graced by "Ambrosial fruit and
vegetable food contributed by Terra GODDESS
Of eartn. So privileged WAS this fruit that
Juno committed it to the exclusive care Of
the three daughters of Hesperus, with
dragon to guard it in their far off isle in the
west. The story of the most difficult of the
twelve labors of Hercules relating the
Atlas while Hercules shouldered the world
ls well-known. From the stolen fruit
brought by the strong god to his tyranical
master, Rurystheus, have de.cended the de.
generating Oranges Ct the world.
re golden apple which Discold threw In
the goddesses at the wedding of the father
and mother Of Achilles, and which Paris
awarded TO Venus. Discord flche from the
golden tree Of the Hesperides. Homer's glo-
etOuB story OF the Trojan war, which sprang
from that award, does not record what be.
came Of the APPLE Recent research in the
archives Of tradition, however, supply the
needed light Venus loved the apple Sne
1athered Its vitality and luscious qualities
fpto her cestus and made them part of its
substance. When the day of doom came to
the Olympian hosts, bewailed by schiller,
but made the poets Joy in THE Dead Pam
q Mra. Browning, Venus fed, bereft of
divinity, over land and sea, round and
round the world, and lost her Cestus in mid-
air. 1t hoated SLOWLY to the earth, dropping
into An open shallow seam, which soon
closed over It; Centuries passed before
the wonderful cestus yielded to natural
forces, decayed, and set free tho vitality
and precious qualities which at orce, on
eaining liberty, began growth in tree form
% reproduce its kind. History emerges
bud from the golden tree of the HIS
perides was brought by way of Washington
10 the site Of the garden planted Eastward
in Eden," whose fruit ,of vegetable gold"
= IN our day known as the Riverside Wash
Allow me in conclusion again to welcome
y0u most cordially to our city. Don't feel
um1d about speaking to our people wher-
meet you, and If you should find anywhere
. door open please walk in and be at home,
Tor every threshold extends its hospitalities
70 you. hope your labors among us may
be productive OF vast amount of good to
you and to all.
THE REPLY.
Hon. Parker Earl, of Mississippi,
President Of the society, responded to
the welcome as follows:
LADIES AND dENTLEMEN-1t Is with a
great deal of pleasure respond to the well
come you have extended to us. l came
here four years ago. However, / had but
one day to give you, That day impressed
me % y Sch hoa that had Longing to
meeting here. And now, I am happy to
say, my desire is realized; and though not
many are here, yet there are enough
10 represent the society.
weeks, and everywhere we have met with
the greatest c0urtesies and have been re-
receiving the same warm hospitality ex-
tended TO us here. We have been rendered
been experienced by sny party which has
hitherto visited your State. We have been
toauted, banqueted, driven through orchards
end farms, and received with open arms by
thing has been done IN such cordial and
earnest spirit that we have no words to ex-
Pres our appreciation and gratitude. We
have not to teach you. but to learn. Those
- msgnincence and grandeur awaiting
1heO, which Is all due to the industry of the
lnhabitants Of this fair land. THERE'S moth
ing like It, venture to say, In the world.
We won't three or four hundred miles north,
tut did not reach the limit OF this golden
land, and now we are travelling south, and
have been for two days. and yet no limit
We have found surprising things in the
north. There, under the very shadow oi
perpetual snow, we found trees loaded with
nne tropical fruit. There is this REGULARITY
about California, that almost anywhere you
0an produce almost all of the tropical fruits
= every section Of the state. No State in the
poars, peaches, apricots, cherries and grapes
only speak from . market standpoint
~ you know that Il makes little diff
feEence whether they have the flavor or not
Uo State grows every kind Of stone fruits a,
( yCu Grow them. We grow few but you d.
ut know under what difficulty they ar,
propagated- 1t imp esses US SO strange a,
= ~ atmoet incredible that here you shoult
JepFeeent POmology In all Of its phases
W - pleased to note that you are not only
4n1efng lruit but homes Good inteltectuo
nDoiGV with all the rapid growth We arr
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