Year: 1875




the State where the orange will thrive,
glut the available market for oranges,
lemons and lines. With the excep-
tion, possibly, of British Columbia,the
market for these products can only be
found within the United States, and
to supply this market there is the
home product Of Florida and the
orange producing islands of the Car
ribean Sea, but few days sail from
the ports of the Gulf and Atlantic
States, and the South Sea Islands of
the Pacific. II has, however, been
satisfactorily proven by repeated ex-
periments that the Los Angeles or
anges, and probably those grown in
other parts of this State, keep better
and suffer less deterioration from car
riage by land or water than those
grown in more humid climes aad more
Southern ATTITUDES. Oranges fully
ripened upon the trees have been sent,
in different years and at various sea-
sons of the year, from this place by
sea to San Francisco and thence over
land to the Atlantic States, where
they arrived in sound and good con-
dition. In June last box containing
upwards of hundred oranges, few
lemons and lines, all fully ripe and
gathered from the trees on the 10th of
that month, was sent by steamer to
San Francisco and thence by rail to
New England, where upon opening
the box only two of the whole number
were found to have the least speck Of
decay. And as a matter of no small
Importance to the orange growers Of
this place, it was the judgment of those
who ate of them, comprising individu-
ais who had eaten oranges in the or
chards of Spain and in those of the
coast and islands of the Mediterranean
Sea, that they were the most delicious
they had ever tasted. 1t is we'll known
that people, living in dry atmosphere
and in climate where the Summer
heat is excessive but where no tropical
fruits are grown, suffer from craving
for acidulous fruits and beverages, not
experienced by those living in
cooler and moist climates. Leav-
ing out of the account the State
of Oregon and the Territory of
! Washington and that of Alaska, as
we'll as British Columbia, there is that
immense region of country stretching
from the borders of the Mississippi


river OH the east to, and including, the
| Sierra Nevada on the west, and from
British America on the north to the
territory of Mexico Oh the south, the
climate of which is such as will make
any civilized population which shall
inhabit 1t as great consumers of or
anges, lemons and lines during the
Summer months as their means of
procuring them will permit. And
ange tress in the nurseries of Los An
geles, the population which is now
pouring into that vast country will
increase the number of it's inhabitants
more rapidly than can Los Angeles
its orange crop. The mineral and
other wealth OF that country isso great
CIlaC Cue iueauS Ol purchasing tuOSe
commodities which the appetites of
the inhabitants crave will be abund-
ant. And it is as certain, that before
the majority of the orange, lemon and
lime trees now growing in the nurser-
les of this county become fruit bearers
there will be ample facilities for send
ing their products by rail from this
place to each and every one of the
States and Territories of this great in
terror district, as it is that those trees
or any considerable proportion thereof
will ever produce fruit. Another fact,
and it is one of no small importance to
the orange growers of Los Angeles, is
that the season of the year in which
he can gather the crop in its greatest
excellence, is that season, May, June
and July, when its demand for con-
sumption will be the greatest through
out all the country before referred to
for a market, and when there can be
but little if any competition by import
ers from abroad. Looking at the fu-
ture of the orange trade of Los Angeles
from every conceivable standpoint,
the prospect seems most encouraging,
and without any ill-omened clouds in
the prospect. J.J. w.