Identifier: storyofexpositio04todd (find matches)
Title: The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Todd, Frank Morton Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company
Subjects: Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: New York, London : Pub. for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ity was to pickle olives that were really ripe, not green ones that had tobe dyed ripe. Certainly her great success must have had some such solidfoundation. Some of the special exhibits of the counties in the California section wereworth noting, although it is obviously impossible to mention them all, theywere so numerous and of such varied excellence. From the southernCalifornia counties came such examples of productive versatility as the var-nish nut, St. Johns bread, pomegranates, the sapota, and the tree tomato,as well as limes, lemons, and grapefruit. Kern County had a tremendouslydiversified exhibit. Sonoma County showed great walnuts, Jefferson plums,sugar plums, and dried apples of superlative quality. Orangeand Flowers County sent up some seedless seedling avocadoes or alligatorpears, and feijoas, a small green fruit new to the State. FromPlacer County came Kelsey Japan plums, prunes, and Bartlett and Vicarof Wakefield pears, of most perfect development; while Alameda County,
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mo< < < < HZ3© A HORTICULTURAL STATE 327 across the Bay from San Francisco, showed processed blossoms of the night-blooming cereus, some of the finest varieties of almonds and walnuts known,and a profusion of improved cherries, plums, and processed flowers. Among the other valuable features of the California Section were thestrawberries of Albert Etter of Briceland, Humboldt County, California.Etter had made a study of the soul and vital essence of the American short-cake for twenty-six years and had produced so many varieties the writercant believe his own notes on the subject. But among them was one thatwas especially drought-resistant, with broad, thick, leathery, high foliage,fruiting well off the ground. Another species had been produced by across of two useless wild varieties, resulting in a meatier fruit with a pun-gent, woodsy flavor, a fruit which, steaming from between two broad, hotslabs of butter-soaked biscuit dough, would make the average Americanfamily forg

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