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 OCTOBEB 13,, 1892] THE FLORIDA DISPATCH, FARMER AND FRUIT-GROWERV. % S05

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 LEMON CULTURE IN FLORIDA. destructive annoying pests that may northerly winds by timber or water or I elbowroom. They desire neither roots,
 t _____ affect the value of the grove or the both. If'by timber a trench shouldcut logs, stumps nor brush to interfere

 Practical Details of Cultivation, fruit, all require the most vigilant and off all roots from ihe-grove. Doubt. with the free use of the plow, the harrow

 Fertilizing, Marketing, Etc. intelligent attention that the lemon less an artificial belt of thickly set and the hoe when deemed necessary -

 Editor Farmer and Fruit Grower: orchardist may receive an encouragingreturn trees, a few yards asiiU*, ould be If the vegetable matter in

 This theme is one requring much for his labors. advantageous in case there'was no the forest growth decay on the land .,'

 research the systematic collation of EXCELLENCE OF THE FLORIDA LEMON. natural protection. The cold wind it adds a small amount of useful mat-
 The lemon industry is in its infancy striking this will; rebound, being deflected ter ,to the soil, yet all the mineral
 many experiences. It is a comparatively in Florida, but the encouraging pro- will rise and pass over a con- elements remain after burning. The

 r new industry in this State, and gress with improved varieties during siderable portion of a grove of mod- gases go into the air from which the

 it seems impossible to (ully'and correctly the past few years has given great hope erate size. .Some have recommended chemists say the trees get ninetyfiveper
 present the matter in all its bear- for the future. No wideawake grower setting the small pines that spring up cent. of their growth. The chief

 ings and justly harmonize all differ- now thinks of growing any but the in the fields or the planting of the benefit of the slow decay seems to be

 ences of opinion; that is a work for very choicest budded fruit!, which, cones. the shade the trash gives. theground: .

 the future. thanks to the excellence of our soil FOR THE NURSERY, and shade is a very important matteras

 There has been a great change in and, climate, already excels the the ground should be reduced to a regards soil fertility. The question ....
 the industries and in the line of de choicest fruit of the Mediterranean condition of perfect tilth and be well is, can this be more profitably securedby

 velopment of Florida during the past countries from which plants, seeds fertilized with a complete fertilizer, other methods? Trash piled in

 quarter of a century, during the pres- and buds have been introduced into though a deep rich soil is not requiredas windrows between the trees is unsightly -
 ent decade. Fruits and vegetablestake Florida and developed by the atten- for vegetables. Every pine tree it is III the way of thorough

 predominance over cotton and tive skill of our fruit growers. Alreadythe should be dug out by the roots, but cultivation, it is a harbor for weeds .
 cattle; the horticulturist and the gar- Northern dealers say, "The best if there are any good sized palmettosa and vermin, it exposes the grove to
 dener and truck grower take prece- lemons come from .Florida." Con- good number may be left judiciously.The constant peril from fife. If it couldbe
 dence over the old style of agriculture.The tinue our present rate of improvementfor seed bed should have especialcare. rotted on the ground before the

 orange has "become the chief of a few years and Florida can proudly This should be located whereit grove is set it certainly would be a
 the almost innumerable kind of fruit claim the pre-eminence over the can be conveniently watered and bentfit. It is undeniably true that

 that can be successfully grown here, whole world as par excellence the shaded when necessary. Some meet shade is fertilizer in Florida, and those

 the crop of the present adverse season country for the choicest of choice with great success by planting in boxes who keep the spaces between the trees

 being probably about three million lemons. handily arranged by the side of the deeply covered with decaying veg-

 boxes, and rapidly augmenting from ORIGIN. barn or shed, and when well started etable matter are surely improving
 year to year; yet its near relative, or We know'very little of the origin of transfer to rows in the nursery. If the soil and storing up nutriment for

 parent, the lemon, has received a won- the :rich; attractive golden berries thickly set at first, a second transplanting the trees when they reach the bearing
 '- derful impetus from the successful known as citrus fruits. Civilized man to the permanent nursery is age. SHERMAN ADAMS.To .

 experience of the past few years, and has been acquainted with them for necessary, with rows three feet apart [ be continued]]

 seems destined, in suitable locations, only a few centuries, Central India and the plants two feet. The grower ,

 to be the most profitable crop that can being.thought. their. home. Even. the should strive for a low branching, Every one pronounces Paine's Ground
 be grown in Florida. meaning 01- their name, citrus- has escaped stocky growth with large developmentof Stock Feed. superior to all grains or cook-
 i edfeed. Maximum food value minimumcost.
 ,
 The successful growth of the best the researches of the philolo-
 roots. See ad. 816.
 I on page
 .' improved varieties of the lemonwillbe gers and etymologists. Kitron, how- Great attention should be given to i '
 a great advantage and a source of ever, was the Greek name of the the Hart's Tardiff Orange.
 great wealth to the State, and should lemon but in this of plants it is
 genus SELECTION OF SEED, Editor Farmer and Fruit-Grower:
, receive increased attention. It will very difficult to determine what is a Many have been planted hereto
 though the trees are to be budded to groves
 help to diversify our industries, a mat- variety and what a species;the orange, the best improved varieties as soon as the Tardiff, but.none of the trees

 ter very important to our well being.It lemon, lime, pomelo, shaddock, they reach the proper size'which is are yet of bearing size. Will you, or
 of hard cash
 will give us a supply all havea
 citron, etc., seem to usually the third spring. Though the some of your readers who have them
 in the summer and autumn; it will give and in
 labor ; what :is common parentage, gen- bud will impress its leading character- fruiting, kindly give any information
 employment to during eral to require somewhat similar :is to their productiveness? It is
 istics the future tree and its fruit, rumored -
 it will tend upon
 now the dull season; to thrive betterin
 of treatment, though some the results cannot fail to be better they are as shy a bearer as the
 check any possible overproduction locations than in others.
 some Navel. Bulletin No. r and all nurse-
 where stock and bud harmoniously
 the orange; it will give us a crop thatis SOME REQUISITES OF SUCCESS. combine the qualities desired. Thisis ry catalogues give it as most prolific.

 a necessity rather than a luxury, the The main questions, however, are true wjth'regard to the breeding of Who is right? An answer will greatly
 which is much
 demand for increasing of dollars and cents, of net profits and animals and it is probable that like oblige WILLIAM KING.
 more rapidly than for the orange. how most surely to secure them. Avon Park,Fla.
 The lemon is a fruit much used in Lemons usually bring good prices and laws prevail in the vegetable as wellas ,
 in the animal world. Secure the
 the arts, a fruit every part of which there is a steadily increasing demand, Dr. J. F. Richmond was in Lees-
 best seed from the best fruit of the
 has a commercialvalue; the rind as more so than for oranges. Realizingthis burg Wednesday and said his company -
 their result-
 increase
 and
 best strains
 ,well as the juice. For the sick it is' fact, the Mediterranean orchard- has shipped two cars of kaolin and
 virtually indispensable and for the well ists have been transforming their or- ing excellence by choice buds Great from have twenty other carloads ready. A
 the most satisfactory trees.
 very agreeable as well as beneficial,' ange groves into lemon; some Florida and considerable knowledgeof half carload per day is now made
 while its use is rapidly becoming more growers have been doing the same. judgment is make the ready for shipment.--Leesburg Com-
 the subject required to
 and more popular. The is not mercial.
 yield per tree perhaps as best possible combination of diverse
 POINTS TO BE CONSIDERED.To greatbut more trees can be judiciouslyset ---w.rCatarrh
 of this sub-
 strains. Our knowledge
 Can't be Cured
 which the difference -
 lemons successfully requires per acre, equalizes
 grow ject is limited and must be devel-
 very with LOCAL
 APPLICATIONS
 a knowledge of things, as and besides, the net price as
 many theresults of recorded
 oped by expe-
 they cannot reach the seat of the dis
 box is It costs
 well as much energy and perseverance.A per usually greater. riences. Increased attention to this
 few of the requisites are the selec- no more, if as much, to fertilize and matter is desirable, and by it will ease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional -
 very disease and in order
 to it
 hence the cure
 for lemon
 tion of a proper location, a knowledgeof care a grove, be marked the progress of the development 
 have take internal
 to remedies.Hall's .
 the class of soil most desirable for lemon may be regarded as the more of our choice fruits. Much you
 Catarrh Cure is taken internally
 this class of fruit, the kind and amountof profitable fruit in those parts of the has ,been done already but much -
 I and acts directly on the blood and
 protection needed, whether natural Florida peninsula where it can be progress'is desirable.
 or artificial], the suitable preparation oft' : grown successfully. There it undoubt greater mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh
 desirable and PREPARATION OF LAND.It Cure is no quack medicine. It was
 ground and for the nursery and for edly is the most profitable 
 the grove, the best seed for nursery I of Florida i industries, if proper is not absolutely necessary that prescribed by one of the best physicians
 stock, the most desirable kinds of buds attention be given to the selection of the ground for the grove be as thor I i in this country for years, and is a regular .

 to be used, the best time for budding, location, soil, choice of varieties, care oughly cleared and prepared as for prescription. It is composed of
 the best after treatment, the 'trans- of grove, gathering and marketing of the nursery. Some recommend the the best tonics known, combined with

 planting to the grove, the best fertili-- fruit, which are real essentials of suc- deadening of the forest trees and the the best blood purifiers acting directly -

 zers and times of application, the care cess. Some growers who first. tried leaving of all the roots and trash to on the mucous surfaces. The perfect -

 and pruning of the grove, the ques- groves on the high hammocks on the decay on the land, others that the combination of the two ingredientsis
 tion of mulching, the how, the when borders of large lakes have earned trees .be felled and piled with roots, what produces such wonderful results -
 and with what, clean or other style of by experience that even higher, dryer branches and trash in windrows to in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials -

 culture, the best time to gather the and less fertile lands are even more decay. Others say that they do not free. .
 the clipping, curing and market- favorahle for profitable lemon culture. believe in siipehod methods; whateveris F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo -

 crop ing of the fruit, the diseases, the fungoid Both orange and lemon groves worth doing is worth doing well. 0.Sold .

 -growths, scale, insects or. other:. should have protection from the cold They like a clear field and plenty of by druggists, 7Sc.


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