Santa Barbara County Biographies

R. K. STEVENS

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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R. K. STEVENS, proprietor of the Palm and Citrus Nursery, in the west end of 
Montecito, makes a specialty of palms (of which he has forty different varieties), and 
tropical fruit trees, many very delicate and sensitive, but his locality is rarely visited by 
frost. Banana fruit ripens on the plants; orange, lemon, lime, and the olive also do 
well. The ranch is well supplied by water, and of the 260 acres the greater part is under 
cultivation. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.