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 south to create a better environment for newly freed slaves in racially divided Virginia, and onward to Washington, DC, where she...
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...
