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Orange County Oranges

Orange County hardly lives up to its name anymore. A few orchards may survive, but today the endless citrus groves that once clothed the county in green are only a memory. Before a postwar population boom triggered an almost wholesale conversation of farmland to suburbia, much of Orange County appeared decidedly rural. In 1948, a vast forest of five million Valencia orange trees grew on 67,000 acres.

 

Found these Orange County Beauties at the Fullerton Arboretum in Fullerton, California.

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Uploaded on January 9, 2016
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