The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-05-30
OUR ORANGE GROVES.
They Astonish an Experienced Grower
From Florida.
What Myron E. Gilletr Thinks of Cit
rus Culture In Northern Part
of California.

Myron E. Gillett, resident manager of
w. r. Strong Company in Florida, is
paying visit to Sacramento of a week or
two. Mr.. Gillett is recognized authority
all over the United States on matters per-
tanning to oranges, orange trees and gen.
eral citrus culture, and has propagated
and grown for the firm above named the
great bulk of orange trees that have been
brought to California during the past five
or six years. During that time about
10000 orange trees grown by him have
been distributed throughout the citrus
sections of Northern California and are
now growing.
Mr.. Gillet has visited a large number
of the young groves, and in an interview
with a RECoRD-UNIoN reporter, ex-
pressed himself as more than satisfied
and pleased at the growth and general
condition OF the trees. He says that with
proper care there need be no fear of fail
ure, and that citrus culture in the dis
tricts he has visited is no longer an ex-
pertinent, but an assured fact.
90 % Y esterday he drove up to Orangevale.
and was astonished at the wonderful
progress made by this enterprising
colony during the last few years. When
told that il had only been in existence
about four years, he was 10th to believe
it, but finally admitted that conditions
that exist elsewhere do not prevail in
California.
Returning, he was driven through the
beautiful American River district and
shown the fine orchards and vineyards
for which that section is noted. He eX-
pressed unbounded admiration for the
thorough cultivation and healthy ap-
pearance of the trees, as the various lead
ing orchards were shown to him on the
way. At the w. r. Strong COMPANY
orchards, just east of the city, he was
shown large cherry orchards from one
acre of which over fifteen hundred dol
lars worth Of cherries had been picked
this season, and from the luscious fruit
remaining he ate from the trees the first
he had tasted il six years. This fruit
does not do well in Florida.
A few days ago Mr.. Gillett was driven
down the Sacramento River and shown
the orchards that line that stream as far
down as CORTLAND. The day was de-
ightful one, and the orchards, with their
wealth of foliage and their heavy burdens
OF peaches, plums and pears, showed to
good advantage. On this trip Mr.. Gillett,
as the guest of Hon. William Johnston.
was treated toa sample ofthat gentlemen's
well-known hospitality, and no doubt
will long remember the pleasant ex-
perience.
The visitor has also spent few days in
the famous Butte County orange groves.
AT Palermo, Thermalito and Oroville he
found the orange groves in a f1ourishing
condition, and was much gratified to
know that carloads of oranges had been
shipped last fall and early winter from
this district, and that the quality was
fully up to the best grown in the State.
At Palermo he inspected the groves of
a number of prominent growers, notable
among them being the groves of Taylor u
Hearst, Daily IL Sargent, r. c. Cham
bers, Almy 81 Drum, Major Hooper, Eben
Boalt, the Palermo Land and Water Com
pany, and others. He found that all trees
that had proper care were fourishing.
and pronounced the growth equal to that
of any he had seen either in Southern
California or Florida.