Evening capital., 1895-09-25
PACKING ORANGES.


,an be got from one establishment IN
San Diego county, for instance, it would
be necessary to search the continent of
Europe from 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; Austria
would need TO be ransacked, and 1t
would probably be necessary to leave
Europe and 60 TO Smyrna IN Asiatic
Turkey to round up with such figs as
can be had in California. And this is
not all. 1t is possible to get practically
as diversified a cargo as can be gathered
from the plantation in consideration
from a certain other one 200 miles far
ther north, and this condition is not
matched anywhere in the world. 1t does
not affect the facts in the case that not
all the California fruits are as yet so
we'll packed and prepared for shipment
as some varieties are in the old worlds
fruit growing region; that figs, for in
stance, can be raised more cheaply and
of better selling quality i'll Smyrna than
in this American fruit region. 1t was
not many years ago that the same was
true of prunes, which could then be
grown and put up in Germany much
more profitably than in California.
Sicilian LEMONS, until this year, have
been supposed to be in permanent con-
tIol of the market, but California prunes
have already taken high rank, and it is
predicted that within five or ten years
California lemons will be SO plentiful
and so cheap that the Sicilian growers
will surely lose the markets of the Unit
ed States, which are the best in the
world, and very likely 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 in area than
California, furnish the requisite condi-
tions for raising as many varieties OF
fruit as that state. But this is not so.
For some reason, although the tempera-
ture of these two states as registered by
the thermometers is similar TO that Of
California, it is impossible in either TO
raise the prune, the raisin grape, the
foreign wine grape. the almond or the
olive, while all these fruits flourish
wonderfully in the Golden State. In
California the fruits, the vines and the
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 acclimated, and al
though it is held that in some instances
the flavor of the California products is
less pleasing than of the same products
grown in their native soil this is offset
by improved flavor in other growths
1t is not alone in fruits that Califor-
MIA displays remarkable 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 the 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 Lonisi-
ana by the continuous barrier furnished
by the great Rocky mountain chain,
which averages more than mile in
height, is 100 miles wide and is dense
ly wooded from end to end. In speak
ing Of this great battlement or wind
break" General N. P. Chapman of Cali
fornia, in paper recently read before
the California State Horticultural So
ciety, called attention to the fact that it
lies diagonally across the lines Of