Excerpt from Principles and Practices of Citrus and Tropical Fruit Culture From the Nursery Tree to the Full Bearing Orchard: Together With Timely Suggestions on Harvesting, Packing, and Marketing, Based on Thirty-Three Years' Experience in Southern California It is said that California owes the introduction of horticulture to the Mission Fathers who, first of all, planted fruit - bearing trees on the Pacific Coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.