Organization And Development Of A Cooperative Citrus Fruit Marketing Agency PDF Download

Excerpt from Organization and Development of a Cooperative Citrus-Fruit Marketing Agency Citrus fruits were introduced into California by the Franciscan monks who emigrated from Lower California in 1769. Twenty one missions were established, and it is said that all but three of these had gardens and orchards. (4) A few orange trees were included in all these plantings, but none of them for commercial purposes. The development of orange-growing in California centers around the San Gabriel Mission which was established in 1771, near what is now the city of Los Angeles. An orchard of about 400 orange trees was planted, probably in 1804. For several years no other plantings of any size were made. The mission orchard gradually fell into decay. General Fremont visited California in 1846, and later wrote that little remains of the orchards that were kept in high cultiva tion at the missions. (4) 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.