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Fruits and Vegetables in
Mid-Winter.
Nearly every variety of vegetables is to be found in the
Ontario markets in mid-winter. All have
been grown in the open. At Christmas
time in Ontario the following fruits were to be had in one shop, at prices
about the top of the running scale given above: Strawberries, raspberries, two varieties of guavas, Winternella
and Bartlett pears; Malaga, Muscat, Red Emperor and Cornichon grapes; oranges,
lemons, grape-fruit, tangerines, limes, apples, persimmons, water-melons,
pineapples, bananas. Native-raised nuts
to be had in the markets at this time are English walnuts, pecans, peanuts,
almonds, chestnuts.
HARVESTING THE GRAPE CROP
(3.75"
X 2.75")
If it is true, that "water is king in Southern
California"; the section south of Ontario is a royal one; for it is underlaid
by a vast lake of pure water easily lifted to the surface.
There are hundreds of private pumping plants in this
district, any one of which furnishes more water than the entire city of Ontario
uses.
No section of California is settling up more rapidly than
this one. Recently the writer counted
fifty-two new houses that have been built on a tract two and one-half miles
square where two years ago there were only four.
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