"Vast tracts of land, once orange groves as far as the eye could see and beyond, are now covered with houses, malls, parking lots, and roads in Los Angeles, San Gabriel, and the Santa Anita Ranch area. But back in the 1880s, citrus was the dominant crop in Southern California, and this important 'treatise' by Byron Martin Lelong (1856-1901), Secretary of the California Board of Horticulture, was eagerly received by growers. Lelong describes the best times for picking, curing, packing, wrapping, and shipping of citrus, as well as preparation of soil, budding, grafting, fertilization, and pruning of trees [.] For such a technical manual, a few tempting recipes are unexpectedly included - lemon biscuit, lemon pie, lemon drops, and citron cake" (Gordon Van De Water, Zamorano Select 65). Octavo: 267, [2] pp. with 27 plates and numerous textual figures. Original pebbled cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titles and blind-stamped borders. This copy is stamped withdrawn from the California Academy of Sciences - Library, with minimal markings: small embossed stamp and ink withdrawn stamp to the title page, bookplate to the front pastedown, and the remnants of an accession label to the spine heel. The spine is ever so slightly faded; else a crisp and clean copy. 96 p. with a color frontispiece and textual illustrations. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Occasional ink stamp corrections to the text, presumably made by the publisher. The ink stamp of the State Commission of Horticulture in Sacramento appears on the front flyleaf, with the ink stamp of entomologist Edward Oliver Essig to the front endpaper. Mild toning along the extremities of the boards; else very good or better.

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Title

CULTURE OF THE CITRUS IN CALIFORNIA: Revised by State Board of Agriculture

Publisher

A.J. Johnston, Superintendent State Printing, Sacramento

Publication Date

1902

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Second Edition.

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Established in 1981, johnson rare books & archives is located at The Book Shop in downtown Covina, about 20 miles east of Los Angeles. The shop is open six days a week and houses an inventory of some 30,000 titles, ranging from the general second-hand to the truly antiquarian.

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134 N. Citrus Avenue, Covina, CA, 91723, U.S.A.

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