The morning call., 1890-12-12
HOME PRODUCTS.
Annual Report Of the State Board
of Horticulture.
A Rapidly Growing Demand for California's
Fruits. and the Wonderful Increase
Of the Industry.

The rapid development of the horticul-
matter of surprise to the people of the East
ern or Western States. Any feeling of
wonder that may exist is doubtless confined
to the pioneers who made their first homes
amid powders and beneath giant trees in
preference to the then unattractive desert
lands, but who are now luxuriating in beauti-
full homes, surrounded by smiling plenty,
where once they impatientiy trailed In their
eagerness to find shade and water.
The latest account Of the progress made
In horticulture in California is to be found
In the recently published annual report of
the State Board Of Horticulture for 1890.
PRESIDENT Ellw0od Cooper gave fair idea
IN brief OF that progress when he stated at
the tenth convention that ''our fruit indus
try is rapidly increasing from year to yea r !;
our fruits are sought by the people in al
most every part Of the country; we have a
growing demand, with an increased interest
in our products"
SUCCESS OF CALIFORNIA FRUITS.
Secretary B. NJ. Lelong fortifies the Presi-
dents statement by announcing that "dur-
ing 1890 the markets of the United States
have been supplied almost with California
fruits exclusively" He further states that
the excellent publications of the board have
been in extraordinary demand, and that
home and foreign correspondence has been
prolific Of beneficial results.
In the reports of the thirteenth State
Frult-growers' Convention the addresses
delivered by the several gentlemen are
teeming with facts and theories upon almost
every subject relevant to horticulture. The
vine disease, trouble which has had
most depressing effect upon the success of
ylticulture, has received the especial atten-
ton OF President Cooper. He classes as
theories the ideas advanced in Los Angeles
County that the death of the vines had
been caused by alkali and bad drainage, or
by Climatic changes through the cultivation
OF Of trees and plants. or by too early pruning.
The suggestion that the vine might be near-
ing its end ne threw out of discussion or
even thought His belief is that the spe-
ciallst alone can give solution to the prob
lem, and he Is confident that Australian
parasitic insects will be- recognized as the
only deStroyers Of the n0Xious insects that
devastate vineyards.
ALMOND CULTURE.
The future oil almond culture in Califor-
MIA IS regarded by Webster Treat of Davis
Vile as full OF rich promise. He gives pref
erence to the paper-shell variety over that
OF the soft or hard shell varieties, and notes
the many Inducements for amateur fruit
growers, the leading one being tile small
amount OF knowledge Of horticulture neces-
sary:
The olive is now more prominently be-
tore the people Of California than any other
tree Is a statement made by c. F. Loop of
Pomona. He is convcrsant with the culture
OF that table delicacy in foreign climes, and
hopes that the number of of olive groves in
THIS State Will increase every year:
The orange. aptly termed the golden fruit
OF the State, Is referred to by Thomas A.
Carey of Carey as follows: Il predict that
the future orange orchards, famed for the
beauty and quality OF their fruit, will be
found on our high, dry mesa lands, and that
the products OF the orchards Of the valleys
and loBlands will find second place in the
orange markets of the world. Hence, take
warming. and start right by making careful
selection OF site on which to plant your
orange grove"
LEMON CULTURE AND HEALTH.
In his remarks upon the difficult culture
OF the lemon, Harvey c. Stiles Of National
City advances the interesting fact that "all
those lands and countries we'll adapted TO
the production of the lemon are noted as
| the sanltariums of the world"
Floral culture is treated by Mrs. Jeanne
T.. Carr of Pasadena with an elaboration
which marks her as an enthusiastic admirer
OF the manifold hues which make beautiful
the natural and cultivated gardens. She in
Lioduces her essay with the pleasant state
Inent: within the past ten years thers has
been vast increase in the popular interest
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gardening, indicating the final triumph. of
man over wild nature and over his own
selfish and destructive instincts, which have
hitherto allowed one generation to impover-
lsh many succeeding ones by the reckless
destruction of forests
The culture of the soft-shell almond Is
commended by George w. Ford of Santa
Ana for much the same reason as that given
for almond culture.
PESTS AND DISEASES.
careful report is given upon the condi-
ton of the cultivation Of the hardy fruits
and the best remedies against attacks by
pests and disease A short article, devoted
to the mahner in which the Australian lady
bird is cultivated, is illustrated BY a picture
of the glass houses built at San Gabriel for
the colonization of parasites and predaceous
insects. Nearly all OF the species of lady
birds are beneficial, aud most of them are
great enemies to all kinds of injurious in
sects, and especially aphis and scale.
An essay by A. l.. Bancroft OF this city
on . The Need of q Cnmnleta and Sx stam Lie