Annual Report of the State Board of Horticulture of the State of California ...California State Board of Horticulture, 1892 Contains laws relating to horticulture, extracts from board meetings, secretary's report, report on the fruit growers' convention (13th), olive oil manufacture, report on fruit culture in foreign countries. |
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ACREAGE AND VARIETY acres Acres in Trees adapted adobe almonds apricots average bearing berries boxes California canal canneries cañons carloads cents citrus fruits climate Coast Range Creek crop cultivation culture deciduous deciduous fruits district ditches dried fruit early east Eastern El Dorado County extends favorable feet fertile foothills Fresno frost fruit growing fruit sections growers grown growth hills horticultural inches industry irrigation Kern County Lake land lemon loam mountains nectarines nuts olive orange trees orchardists orchards peaches pears planted plums portion pounds profitable prunes railroad rainfall raisin region rich Sacramento River San Bernardino San Francisco San Joaquin San Joaquin River Santa Clara Santa Clara County season Shasta shipments shipped Sierra Nevada small fruits soil southern square miles streams summer Table grapes temperature thrive Total Tulare Tulare County Tuolumne County Valley VARIETY OF FRUITS vines vineyards walnuts width winter yield
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Stran 157 - ... oak are also well represented. Associated with the Digger pine at low elevations is very frequently found a dense chaparral growth, consisting chiefly of California lilac and manzanita bushes. TEHAMA COUNTY. Tehama County lies directly south of Shasta County, and extends from the summit of the Sierra on the east to the summit of the Coast Range on the west, and covers an area of three thousand two hundred square miles. The Sacramento River flows through the central portion of the county, which...
Stran 378 - ... moth, or other insects that are destructive to trees, and praying that a commission be appointed by them, whose duty it shall be to supervise the destruction of said scale insects, as herein provided, the Board of Supervisors shall, within twenty days thereafter, appoint a board of horticultural commissioners, consisting of three members, who shall be qualified for the duties of horticultural commissioner.
Stran 233 - Francisco is situated, as will contain an area of four square leagues; said tract being bounded on the north and east by the Bay of San Francisco, on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the south by a due east and west line drawn so as to include the area aforesaid...
Stran 185 - It extends from about 8 miles from the Sacramento River to the summit of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Just above Auburn, between the Bear and American rivers, the county is very narrow, being but about 8 miles across. Above Auburn it widens out into the two divides lying between the Bear River and the Middle Fork of the American River. These are known as the Dutch Flat or Railroad Divide, and the Forest Hill Divide. The southwestern portion of the county is more regular in shape than the part just...
Stran 72 - ... to a large size on all the mountain sides. When the Comstock was in its zenith the wood and lumber business of the county was quite an important factor in its activity, but since the decline of the mines there this branch of business has been greatly crippled; yet there are annually cut from 15,000 to 20,000 cords of wood and 750,000 feet of lumber sawed. In the eastern part of the county farming is carried on to a considerable extent. Upper Carson, Diamond, and Dutch Valleys are the chief seats...
Stran 453 - Cooper announced the next order of business to be the election of officers for the ensuing term, viz.: President, Auditor, and Treasurer, and vacated the chair.
Stran 33 - Twenty-one Missions were established, all but three of which had gardens and orchards.
Stran 106 - It is this slope also that aids to press the sub-irrigation down into the center of the valley and over its broad extent. This gentle, gradual slope answers also another important end. It might be feared that this gradual filling up of the soil from beneath would continually come so near the surface as to make the whole region a vast swamp. But this is prevented by the natural drainage which this...
Stran 240 - The skies are a deeper azure, and the soft brown hills seem nearer and fairer than before. It is the Indian summer of the East, but instead of the soft lassitude of the dying year, here it comes with all the freshness and vigor of the new-born spring. If in this and the succeeding months there are further showers, the grass springs up on every hand, and the self-sown grain in all the fields. The hills change their sober russet for a lively green. Wild flowers appear in every sheltered nook. Hyacinths...