Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-01
audience Mr.. Earl, the President of the
American Horticultural Association. Mr..
Earl said

Earl SAID:
Ladies and Gentlemen Of Sacramento: take
pleasure IN responding here tonight to this
generous welcome you have extended to the
American Horticultural Society. We have come
to California from large number of the East
ern States We have left our tiresides in New
England, our homes by the Gulf, along the At
lantic shores, the cotton fields of the South, the
prairies OF the great valley of the Mississippi,
our farms by the great lakes left behind us the
| blizzard of the North, the balmy breezeS of the
| Gulf of Mexico, to come to your coast and in
| spect for ourselves your great, your wonderful,
| your glorious fruit-growing country, California
IApplausel Everywhere we have been met
| with welcome which has deeply impressed us.
| We feel that We have invaded the home of a
| generous, hospitable, free-hearted people, we
| feel that we have come among friends. Our
| tour through the State has been one con
| tinuous ovation. Wherever We have stopped
| at railway station, for even the brief space
of one hour we have been met by organized
committees OF brave men and fair women, with
| words of welcome and donations of fruit and
| flowers from that cornucopia which seems TO be
| Californias own and inexhauslible. We have
| been toasted and banqueted, and everywhere
made happy and glad that we came to see you.
| Our going north has been heralded, and already
| we are apprised of the fact that throughout the
| Sacramento valley, wherever we stop, will De
| found that generous outpouring of people until
| we reach the base of Mount Shasta,
whose silver summit shines eternal in your
summer sky. The conditions of horticulture
with our Eastern people are very dlssimilar to
| those of California. We are familiar with horti-
culture only as it is practiced il the East. You
know nothing of the difficulties we have to con
tend with. We have to contend with the eX-
tremes of climate, while you live in and enjoy
the pleasures of a yeritable garden of Eden. At
the East we have a continuous warfare with
insect tests and deadly fungi We cannot pro-
| duce anything without fight for it, while in
your fair land everything grows and produces
TO perfection. In the East we sometimes plant
in the wrong soil, put out the wrong
thing in the right place, but in your land
| such mistakes are impossible. Here in this
glorious land, in this prolific soil, under the
warm sunshines of your Italian skies everybody
seems to have planted happily. Your orchards
| are the largest and finest in the world your
oTchardists all look happy and are wealthy. We
are deeply impressed with the magnitude, we
might say audacity, that we have seen and heard
about since cur arrival in California. Nothing
is done on small scale and to produce great
aud abun dant crops requires but little effort.
You have, however, some serious problems to
solve. You can grow all the fruits OF the world.
1t is wonderful how much you can grow in one
garden spot. Side by side in the same acre are
growing to perfection citrus, prune, the harder
fruits OF the north, the gigantic and the waring
palm. You can, as l said, grow everything and
the yield of all your crops is something wonder
full California can produce for the next 100
years to come all the fruit consumed by
supply the 650OO,000 of people in the
United States; when our population increases to
200 .0G0 600 she can keep up with the demand
She has the land and the climate, and with hus.
bandmen enough she can supply the whole
great round world and have plenty to spare
and don't know but what you are undertaking
| 10 do it too for some orchardists who have 500
and 600 acres in bearing trees are still plant
| ing, doubling up their orchards, putting out
new ones on equally as large scale, and
| vineyards. of several thousand acres each are
| not looked upon as anything on very grand
| scale. When see these things going up and
down your fertile and beautiful valleys-for
| they are all beautiful and fertile-I cannot say
| too much for the future of this Golden State
The greatest most beautiful most fertile valley
| in the world extends from Mount Shasta, on the
| north, TO Tehachapi, on the south, embracing a
| territory as large as New England. 1t is yer.
| table garden spot, with prolific soil, sun
shine of heaven shoWering its bounteous bless
| inE upon it. l see in the valleys of the Sacra-
mento and San Joaquin, in the foothills of the
| Sierras in the slopes OF your Coast Range, pos
| sibilities that are amazing. In a single town
| ship of California it is possible to grow many
| raisins as is necessary to supply the demand in
| the entire United States. hope YOU will never
| be confronted with the fact of overproduction.
| Here is problem that will have to be consid-
cred. The immense grain fields of your valley
| do not require many laborers to handle them.
man can handle 1000 acres of wheat with
| fifteen or twenty men When this is put into
orchards and vineyards or berry gardens, he
will need ten, twenty or fifty times as many
laborers to carry on that work. Where will
you get those laborers? We cannot spare them.
Some are coming over here now, but they come
as employers of abor, and not as laborers.
Where will you get the requisite help is ques-
cuss such quest ons on your own soil. We are
glad we have come. for you have made us so
welcome and happy. California is destined to
prosperityunparalleiedin all thi> grand republic
In conclusion, let me suggest that when all the
difficulties found in the production of fruits are
mastered by YOU, when you find how cheap you
can produce them and supply the world with
the product, that you will have done much
more than any other State in the Union has ac-
complished to build up human civilization.
There is nothing that so elevates society," or that
carries sunshine and lOy to the table of the
and the poor as the golden fruits and flowers OF
this hOrticulture IF OuIS. LAnnlausel