ORANGE-UL TURE.


usually the most costly.


The cost of clearing pine-land


is from
amount
required
hundred
and prep
per acre.
prepared
land, anc
up and p
The besi
the land,


ten to thirty dollars per acre, accor


of undergrowth and the a
; of clearing hammock-lan
dollars per acre. The co
aring it for the trees is front
 It is very important to
 .Orange-trees will not t
I it is desirable to have the
ulverized some time before
t plan of all is first to raise


mount of
ds, from tl


st of
m th
have
thrive
soil
the


plowi
ree to
the si
on nH
thorou
trees


a crop of


and, when these have been turned under, then set


out the trees.
 SELECTING


THE TREES.-In


serviceable


"Guide
"Young,
selected
retarded
various c
does not
Seedling


to Orange-Culture" the Manville Brothers say:
transplanted trees from the nursery should be
they have well-developed fibrous roots, are little
by moving, and easily adapt themselves to the
circumstances of soil, location, etc. The orange
 reproduce itself with certainty from the seed.


trees are much longer in attaining


maturity than


budded trees, and have no advantages over the latter.
Budded trees should therefore be selected in all cases. So-
called 'sour stocks' are more hardy and vigorous than the
sweet; they are especially adapted to low land, where the
latter do not thrive. Sweet stocks are admissible on the
high lands, and are preferred by some. A bud of one or
two years' growth on a stock three or four years old, is the
most profitable and convenient size and age." It used to
be represented, probably by interested parties, that sweet
seedlings grow larger and ultimately produce more abun-
dantly than budded trees; but experiment has disproved
this, and it is now admitted that the budded trees not only
bear several years earlier than the seedlings, but make


quite as productive and vigorous trees.


In choosing the


ding to the
"grubbing"
thirty to one
ing the land
five dollars
oil properly
ew, "sour"
ghly broken
are planted.
cow-peas on


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