The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-10

PACKING ORANGES.
can be got from one establishment in
San Diego county, for instance, it would
be necessary to search the continent of
Europe frsm the North sea to the Medi-
terranean. Part Of this cargo would be
found in the British isles, part in
France, part IN Spain and Portugal;
Italy would have TO be visited; Austri9
would need to be ransackcd, and il
would probably lie necessary to leave
Europe ard so to Smyrna III Asiatic
Turkey 10 round up with such figs as
can re had ID California. And this is
not all. It IS possible TO get practically
as diversified a cargo as can be gathered
from the plantation i'll consideration
from q certain other enc 800 miles far
ther north, and this condition is not
matched anywhere in the world. Itdocs
mot affect the facts in the case that not
all TIE California fruits are as yet 20
we'll packed and prepared for shipment
as some varieties are III the old world 6
fruit growing region; that figs. for in
stance, can be raised more cheaply ard
Of better selling Gnality in Smyrna than
in this American fruit region. 1t was
not many years ago that the same was
true OF prG2es, which could then be
grown and pat up IN Germany much
more probably than in California.
Sic3lian lemons, until this year, have
been supposed to be il permanent con
trol of the market, bat California prunes
have already taken high rank, and it is
predicted that within five or ten years
California lemons viii be so plentiful
and so cheap that the S.ciian growers
will surely loso the markets of the Unit
| cd States, which arc the best in the
world, and very likely a good portion of
the markets Of Europe.
1t is supposed By many not familiar
with the facts that Florida and Louisi-
ana, though much smaller i'll area than
I California, furnish the requisite condi-
items for raising as many varieties Of
fruit as that state But this is not so.
For some reason, although tho temporal
ture of these two states as registered by
the thermometers is similar to that Of
! California, it is impossible in either to
raise tho prune, tho ra5sin grape, the
! foreign vine grape, the almond or the
| olive, while all these fruits flourish
| wonderfully in the Golden State In
| California the fruits, the vines and tie
nuts of Palestine, Of faraway China
and Japan, Of Mexico and the wonder
full southern island continent of Austria
liza, as we'll as those of Europe, have
virtually all been accLmated. and al
though it is held that in some instances
the favor of the California products is
less pleasing than of the same products
grown in their native soil this is Offset
| by improved favor in other growths.
Sc ,o% Of -, OIL
MIA displays rema1 kable productive pow
er. Its grains are Of first quality and
enormous yield, and as to vegetables, if
there is any sort that cannot be grown
there, the writer has yet to hear of it,
while in size and prodigality of yield
the vegetables Of California cannot be
excelled by those of any other land
though it is said of the vegetables that
! like the fruits, they are sometimes lack
ing in flavor. The causes contributing
to tho exceptional conditions thus out
lined are, Of course, not duplicated else
where. Cold waves from the frigid re-
gions Of the pole are prevented from
sweeping down upon California as they
sometimes do upon Florida and Louisi
ana by the continuous barrier furnished
by the great Rocky mountain chain
which averages more than a mile il
height, is 100 miles wide and is dense
ly wooded from end to end. In speak
ing of this great battlement or vino
break" General N. P. Chapman of Cali
fornia, in a paper recently read befort
the California State Horticultural SO
ciety, called attention to the fact that i
lilies diagonally across the lines C