Fourth Biennial Report of the State Board of Horticulture of the State of California. For 1893-94.

Sacramento: A. J. Johnston, State Printing Office, 1892 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Pp. [4], 458 plus frontispiece, 53 plates (including 2 color plates of Beneficial Insects), numerous text illustrations. Index. Publisher's original pebbled black cloth gilt lettering and pictorial element (of the Goddess Pomona) to spine. Corners of two leaves slightly crunched, ink stamps to front and rear endpaper. A very fine copy. First edition of this Biennial Report. Includes the Reports for both 1893 and 1894. Covers the normal reports to the Governor, etc. Also includes transactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth State Fruit Growers' Convention and, of course, information on the Horticultural Exhibit at the Midwinter Fair held in San Francisco, 1894. The frontis illustration shows a portion of the exhibit; the second section of the book provides the article, Exhibit at Midwinter Fair and Horticultural Day Tree (pp. 443-451) including a photographic plate showing the Mission Olive Tree (labeled the Horticultural Day Tree) planted at the west side of the Fine Arts Building at the Midwinter Fair held in Golden Gate Park. This was one of the famous and historic trees at San Diego, over a century old, "from which dates the first period in the horticultural history of California." Other key articles include those on apricots, cherries, Fruit Growers in the Santa Maria Valley, another on California Almonds, etc. .