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Show SOMETHING WORTH WHILE. California that land of sunshine, H fruit and flowers nature's storehouse. (H Everything grows there in the great- iH est abundance flowers grow in such !H profusion that if half were told it H would not be believed. Flowers that H arc mere hothouse plants in the cast, H become trees and large bushes out S there, one of which contains more H blossoms than arc contained upon all jH the plants in an eastern hothouse. The (H quantity and quality of the fruit raised !H is beyond the power of the eastern gH mind to grasp, and many will be sur- H prised to learn that last season's crop ,H of canned fruit amounted to 5,560,000 cases, or 133,440,000 cans, valued at ' $10,000,000. Raisins,' 140,000,000 lbs.; H dried fruits, '254,375,000 lbs.; figs, 6 000,000 lbs.; prunes 180,000,000 lbs.; H walnuts, 14,000,000 lbs., valued at $r,- IH 750,000. The output of canned fruits ffl of Colton, California, equals 2,060)06 U cart's, with a large quantity of dried1 H fruit, honey and nuts. ! 1 cSH |