Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — How Some Demon Trees Pay. [ARTICLE]

How Some Demon Trees Pay.

“I see in the newspapers,” said Edward Cressey, of Highland, to us a day or two ago, “a clipping from the Progress about there being some lemon trees in Duarte that have yielded a crop worth over S3O to the tree. I don’t doubt it. My widowed sister, near Highland, has twenty large lemon trees on her place that have, since she and her boys learned to cure and pack the fruit, pai4 .the entire grocery and clothing bills for the family of four people. About half the trees are over eleven years old, and they have fine care. A good part of them have borne each year on an average of six boxes of fruit to the tree for three years, and the lemons have sold from $5 to $6.75 a box. Thete are a few trees that have brought in an annual revenua of even $lO each.—[Pomona (Cal.) Progress.