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Title: Illustrated album of Alameda County, California; its early history and progress--agriculture, viticulture and horticulture--educational, manufacturing and railroad advantages--Oakland and environs--interior townships--statistics, etc., etc
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Colquhoun, Jos. Alex
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Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : Pacific Press
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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the newmissions of Alta California, and among the suppliescaused to be sent from Spain bj Galvez were floucr,vegetable, and fruit seeds as well as cereals. They established twenty-one missions, and to all,except three, were attached gardens and orchards, sothat the olive, fig and grape were introduced early.The trees were grown from the seed chiefly and wereall or nearly all seedlings, and from these are still prop-agated the varieties known as the mission olive, themission grape, and the black fig, called the missionfig. In the closing years of the last century and theopening of this, there were growing near Mission SanJose, now in Alameda County, apples, pears, apricots^peaches, and figs, and at some of the missions in thesouthern portion were, in addition to these, oranges,limes, grapes, olives, and pomegranates—in all aboutfive thou.sand bearing trees. These have increased inthe century to nearly thirty-one million trees, and ofthis number about one million six hundred thousand
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ILLUSTRATED ALBUM OF ALAMEDA COUNTY. 13 are in Alameda County. Of these about one millionare in bearing. Among the first apples grown in theState were those of Mr. Lewelling, of San Lorenzo,Alameda County. There are in the county fifty thou-sand five hundred apple trees, three hundred and thirty-one thousand apricot, two hundred and twenty-seventhousand one hundred cherry, twenty-three hundredfig, thirty-seven hundred olive, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred peach, forty thousandseven hundred nectarine, two hundred and thirty-fivethousand one hundred prune, one hundred and seventythousand one hundred pear, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand five hundred plum, four hundredquince, one hundred lemon, twelve hundred orange,one hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundredalmond, thirty-six hundred English walnut. This hasbeen the growth, practically, of the past twenty years,as the entire output of fresh fruit in California in 1871was only one million eight hundred a

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