Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbetts & the Birth of California's Citrus Industry

by Peter Economy and Patricia Ortlieb

California's citrus industry owes a huge debt to the introduction of the navel orange tree--in fact, to two trees in particular, the parent trees of the vast groves of navel oranges that exist in California today. Those trees were planted by a woman named Eliza Lovell Tibbets. Born in Cincinnati in1823, Eliza's Swedenborgian faith informed her ideals. Surrounded by artists and free thinkers, her personal journey took her first to New York City, then...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877853371
• ISBN13: 9780877853374
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"