The Story of California Oranges and Lemons
Author : Sunkist Growers, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Citrus fruit industry
ISBN :
Author : Sunkist Growers, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Citrus fruit industry
ISBN :
Author : Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520251679
"Douglas Sackman peels an orange and finds inside nothing less than an American agricultural-industrial culture in all its inventive, exploitative, transformative, and destructive power. A beautifully researched and intellectually expansive book."—Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
Author : California Fruit Growers Exchange
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Botany
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin T. Jenkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1467107670
Since the first appearance of oranges at the Franciscan missions in the early 19th century, citrus agriculture has been an inextricable part of California's heritage. From the 1870s to the 1960s, oranges and lemons were dominant features of the Southern California landscape. The Washington navel orange, introduced by homesteader Eliza Tibbets at Riverside in the 1870s, precipitated the rise of a citrus belt stretching from Pasadena (in the San Gabriel Valley) to Redlands (in San Bernardino County). Valencia oranges dominated Orange County south of Los Angeles, while lemons thrived in coastal settlements such as Santa Paula. With the arrival of transcontinental railroads in the citrus heartland by the 1880s, Californians had access to markets across the United States. This was followed by the subsequent establishment of an impressive central organization in the form of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, and oranges became the state's most lucrative crop. Observers did not exaggerate when they dubbed the southern portion of the Golden State an orange empire.
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374708703
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in the halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, too—with elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in the modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand.
Author : Barbara Ann Hall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780738574424
Drawn by the California dream of golden sunshine and promise, many settlers came to the Covina Valley, where, after clearing the rocks, sagebrush, and cactus, they found rich alluvial soil. With the addition of water, everything grew in abundance. Citrus gradually became the best cash crop. This is the story of the men and women who made the citrus industry work in and around Covina, how they founded towns and eventually planted 25,000 acres of oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits. They endured droughts, floods, freezes, insect invasions, and unscrupulous buyers who almost ruined them financially. Together they developed water resources and the first stockholder-owned citrus cooperative, and brought railroads, transforming the Covina Valley into a major citrus producing and processing center.
Author : Pierre Laszlo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2008-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0226470288
Laszlo traces the spectacular rise and spread of citrus across the globe, from southeast Asia in 4000 BC to modern Spain and Portugal, whose explorers inroduced the fruit to the Americas. This book explores the numerous roles that citrus has played in agriculture, horticulture, cooking, nutrition, religion, and art.
Author : Helena Attlee
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1581576102
A unique culinary adventure through Italian history The Land Where Lemons Grow is the sweeping story of Italy's cultural history told through the history of its citrus crops. From the early migration of citrus from the foothills of the Himalayas to Italy's shores to the persistent role of unique crops such as bergamot (and its place in the perfume and cosmetics industries) and the vital role played by Calabria's unique Diamante citrons in the Jewish celebration of Sukkoth, author Helena Attlee brings the fascinating history and its gustatory delights to life. Whether the Battle of Oranges in Ivrea, the gardens of Tuscany, or the story of the Mafia and Sicily's citrus groves, Attlee transports readers on a journey unlike any other.
Author : Henry Chase Hill
Publisher :
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Decorative and industrial arts
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Author : David Boulé
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2014-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781883318628
A lively, literary and extraordinary visual look at the symbiotic and highly smbolic relationship between the Golden State and its 'golden apple'. Untold thousandsa of adventurers and health-seekers came West in the late C19th and early C20th, lured by postcards of orange blossoms on now-capped mountains. The orange became a symbol of everything California promised, and California became the centre of the Orange Empire. In 176 pages, author David Boule shares the absorbing story of the orange and its impact on the culture of California.