Orange Culture in California

Excerpt from Orange Culture in California

For a number of years I have thought of putting my extensive practical experience in citrus culture into book form, and now, at the earnest request of numerous friends, I shall, for the benefit of those who are seeking information in semitropical fruit culture, proceed to carry my purpose into effect, hoping that this will be a profitable guide to this most interesting and remunerative industry.

A residence of twenty-eight years in this State, the last sixteen of which have been devoted exclusively and uninterruptedly to semi-tropical orcharding and nursery business, enables me to write from a practical standpoint possessed by few. A lover by nature of the beautiful in horticulture, I have applied myself assiduously to assist in developing the latent interests of the business of citrus culture, by endeavoring to procure the best of the different species, by propagating and experimenting on a large scale, and carefully noting the different varieties. The field has been and still is wide and ample. However much I may have learned, I feel that we are only on the threshold of learning what are the most successful conditions for the profitable citrus culture of the future.

I shall endeavor to present the subject in as brief a form as possible consistent with the many ramifications of the business, using no technical phrases, the object being to adapt the work to the understanding of all that may at any time be engaged in the business.

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