The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-21

Il ROYAL BAKING POWDER &
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Of Los Angeles, and here Father Tomas
Sanchez planted the first orange seed,
said to have been brought from San
Rafael, in Lower California. Happily
the mission buildings at San Gabriel
are still in fair state of preservation.
for the early monks had hundreds Of
Indian converts in their employ, stor-
ing silver which they got by raising
and shipping wheat to Mexico and
hides to Boston, not 10 mention their
wines and immense flocks of sheep.
Father Tomas enclosed his priced or
ange trees with high adobe wall, and
a generation later Don Luis Vignes re-
moved thirty-five of them to an exotic
garden he was planting at Los Angeles.
1t was reserved for German settler Of
Los Angeles, however, William Wolf
SKILL to plant California's first orange
grove in 1S41 as business speculation.
Vineyards were then paying handsome
ly in three or four years after they were
planted, and their owners scoffed at
Wolfskill for raising an untrled fruit
which required longer time to reach
profitable fruitfulness German pluck
triumphed, as it has so often in other
fields, and Wolfskill, adding to his or
ange grove by buying nursery plant
ed with seed from Central America and
the Sandwich Islands, lived to sell his
last crop. from about twelty-eight
acres for twenty-five thousand dollars.
Insect nests subsequently, checked the
orange product for some years, and it is
said mar IN 1862 there were only TWEEN
ty-fiye thousand orange trees in Cali
fornia. two-thirds of which were on the
wolfskill property. now swallowed UP
Inv ina main Southern Pacific station
and residence lots.
r. was NOT TIL Riverside proved its
nrofita bleness that orange culture be-
cana general in southern California,
and in 1862 Luis Rubidoux. whose sheep
ranged over Riyersides barren acres
went before the county supervisors and
declined to nav any more taxes on that
; mart az his ranch. which he pronounced
..utterlv worthless Yankee ingenuity
ard industrv have since brought water
mon this Same worthless land. and. as
/ already stated II now markets fruit
nroa,cts chiefly oranges with Al cash
vama of between one and two million
dollars Riverside,s first orange trees
ware rlanted Nv Dr shugart. March L
| 1871 ana II COST twentv-five cents a bar
| rel FOR hauling water to keep them
a1iva &C tho fi,.st irrieating canal was
MT finished until some months later
The. Apric,,Itural Department at Wash
; ington innorted several orange trees
froro pab;a Rrazi1 in 1879 and a corple
| Of orange trees b1,dded from the Bra
lillian stoclr wore sent IN Mrs Z. G.
J,ahhats Of Riverside from which
snrano +ba fa,nous wa sbineton navel
tba ,oa;,, so,roa of Rivarside's wide
snraa n ran,,tation q an oranpe civ.
trbe navel orange &c narelv an effort
of atu,,o, ~, rroa,,ca +wi,, oranees hui
ono oe 4bo +u;ns a bortaJ ,oerelv s,,r-
vi,,ino &c q n,,ot,,he,-ance n The blossom
and ~ tho oranga a litt1a kerne, anvel.
oned u, tho s,,in which closely resenr-
hlas tho b,ran navel in annearanc
The tree itself is semi-dwarf and has a
few small thorns. When some of these
oranges were exhibited in the spring of
1879 their beautiful color, peculiar form
and excellent quality attracted imfne-
date attention and stimulated their
production. The poor returns from the
Seeding oranges. the original orange
raised from the seed, during the past
season have still further stimulated ma
vel production. so that many Riverside
seeding groves have been cut back and
grated or budded with navel stock
The navel orange is smooth, of golden
bronze tint, fine texture and satin skin,
while its flavor is delicious, and it has
the additional advantage of having few
or no seeds. When the new orange
gave Riverside the palm over Florida
at the Exposition at New Orleans in
1885, the future of the navel orange was