APPENDIX.


ORANGE-GRO WING


IN FLORIDA.


 A CORRESPONDENT Of the Louisville "Courier-
Journal" says:
 There are many errors afloat about Florida. Some
suppose the orange belt covers the State. Orange cul-
ture is not safe north of the twenty-ninth parallel,


better south of


orange-tree will
the apple-tree.
wet locations, a
stock on which
as the sour tree
the sweet graft


weight.
sweet ti
blooms
times d
ties are


 N
trees


twenty


not grow in wet
The sour one is
nd may be used
the sweet orange
is a much slower
or perish beneath


o one who desires a p
would ever use a sour


-eighth. The sweet
land any more than
sometimes found in
in such places as a
can be worked. But
grower, it must dwarf
the superincumbent
permanent orchard of
stock. The orange


in January and February, and a freeze at such
estroys fruit and trees. The northern coun-
subject to such frosts, and hence experience


has taught the old settlers that orange-culture can not
succeed in such a climate. Cold continued long enough
to form ice of half an inch must destroy the unpro-
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