ORANGE- CULTURE.


both views are advocated with equal ardor and sincerity by
equally able and experienced men. There are two or three
points, however, that may be regarded as settled. The in-
dustry can not be entered upon with any certainty in the
northern or northwestern portions of the State. Most of the
old and valuable groves in the upper division are located
on the east side of the St. John's-River, and their compara-
tive immunity from the effects of cold is attributed to the


extensive water-protection on the north
considers that the water-protection afforded
is equivalent to at least one hundred miles
tance; and throughout the peninsula it i
sizable to secure the protection of a body
northwest, the direction whence the cold


 .Mr. Moore
r the St. John's
southerly dis-
considered de-
water on the
nds come. In


the absence of water, a protection of forest-trees is valuable,
but these should shelter the trees on the southeast. Another
important consideration in locating an orange-grove is ac-
cessibility to market: one should be sure to locate himself
either near some established line of transportation or in the
immediate vicinity of some line that is sure to be established


in the near future
such roads as those
fruit is very liable
rendered worthless.
 SOIL, ETC.-Say
 a 


STo haul oranges even ten miles over
e of Florida is no slight task, and the
to be damaged in the process and thus

s Mr. Moore "The orange will grow in


a variety of soils-in clayey, sandy, shelly, or loamy soils,
in hammocks black or gray, on pine-lands or black-jack
ridges. It does well on soil underlaid with clay or sand.
It will even do well on a light soil underlaid with white
sand if fertilizers are applied annually. But whoever
wishes to plant an orange-grove should be careful to select
the be t available soil. Perhaps the poorest soil suitable
for or ge-growing is that underlaid with a white sand, as
that o the orange, and these can not be grown with profit north of Lake
Geo e.-G. M. B.