FLORIDA.


boiling water, put it into a forty-gallon cask, add ten
pounds of carbonate of soda, broken into small lumps, fill


the cask with soft water, and stir until it is thoroughly
solved; scrub the trunk and branches with a brush dip
in this solution, and shower the tops and foliage with it
means of a rose-nibbed syringe. Against other insects
best protection is a good flock of fowls. The cause
" rust is not yet fully made out, some claiming that i
due to an insect, others to a fungus. Slaked lime f
burned oyster-shells sown broadcast over the grove
allowed to sift lightly through the branches and leave


of
t is
rom
and
s of


the trees,
that knor
branches,
the other
have bee
away the
struck a


is a good corrective.
wn as the "die-back."
it may be due to the
hand, it is general, it
n planted too deeply


soil or to
hard-pan'


edy but removal 1
 In conclusion,
make themselves


fact
able
As
told
are
true
upol
look


to
it
; t


The most serious disease is
If this is confined to a few
sting of an insect. If, on
shows either that the trees
(and the remedy is to dig


reset the tree), or that the roots have
" subsoil (and for this there is no rem-
another site).
must be said that orange-groves do not


1


ieir value,


that it takes years of hard
expenditure of money in th
to the returns that may be
that in three years from
put out, the grove will be
in the sense that some o
a the trees, it is also true t
ed for in so brief a period.


grove has been properly cared f,
porting by the fifth year, afte
gradually increase year by year,


ndeed, consists in the very
labor and a very consider-
e mean while to raise them.
expected, one is generally
the setting, if budded trees
in bearing. While this is
ranges may then be found
hat no paying crop can be
As a general thing, if the
or, it ought to be self-sup-
r which its returns should
,until at the end of ten or


twelve years the crop, at a cent an orange on the tree (the
price is now much higher), should yield ten dollars per tree.
Estimates are usually made much higher than this; and,


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