The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-01
4 \ i FL0RIDA's GOLDEN FRUIT
III
Orange Culture in the Peninsular
State-How Rapid For
times ara Made
tunes are Made.

T.
A gentleman who writes from Palatka
Fla, to the Aulnta Constitutions paints
glowing picture of the orange groves.
and thus diIates upon the wealth they
contain: = .s1 IL nnhs
1t is HARD to say how much an orange
grove is worth - air Bishop, President
% ~ = f the Fruit growers Association, said
II am really afraid to say what hon
estly believe an orange grove Of GOO
bearing trees is worth" "One thousand
hearing trees IS a life 5ong- competency
- for any man says Capt Dumnit John
Robinson says that an orange grove may
be safely purchased basis of 800
per tres=that is Sl0O3Qfor one hundred
trees, or $l000O6 for a grove ST 600
trees j. l.. Adams put the lowest esti-
mate $50 per tree Mrs. Harriet
Reecher Stove SAYS that her trees have
averaged SIS per annum for each tree for
Eve years. MIR, Hart the largest grower
III the State, puts tie average yield, at
$40 per tree. A tree will yield after its
fourth year Of bearing, 900 oranges a
FaaTf = year These oranges IN be sold at from
and half to three cents apiece. a
good quality will command as much as
four cents meta great deal depending on
freight advantages. These trees will
ss:ss :ss ,JS$$ & 81
600. The great question Of importance,
then III rHoB long does it take to es-
t- tablish a grove?LE Tbe Sicily oranges
we all know, produce fruit in fourteen
years from the timo the seed sprouts,
and viii bear for seventy years thereaf-
ter The Florida oranges wi produce
iIuit much earlier-in eight years Ia
ten years he viii have average yield
of one hundred to the tree or 100000
oranges to his grove, with from s 500 to
50 900 an the trees Ii iys years longer
y Lor in fifteen years from planting, he will
have i've hundred oranges to the tree, or
100000 oranges glimmering In the green
a.-.- foliage of his grVve-worth from 81 500
to $1,000 on the trees. He W III thus
hrr bu Orioi nj Cutla t,f
a IN ten years inc of 81 500 al
Is year. increasing of itself to $40 600 per
annum in the five years. His prop
erty viii be worth at a low es innate $780,,
600 70 $50 600.
sY6 Fg3 A man who is IN hurry for an ia
come selects one of1these Will groves
Then cutting the free smooth off about
six feet from the ground, lac inserts
number Of sweet orange buds between
Ffar fig che bark and the wood of the stump;
covering them carefully, that the air
cannot get to them. these buds sprout
readily sand IN three or four years he
e8EHfsi has n hne grove Of sweet orange trees
growing orange stumps. These
transformed trees the hardest and
healthiest that be found. Anot er
fsH8a h1 short cut 10 mature orange grove is to
bug young orange trees and have them
transplaDted, Ia any of the leading
orange couaties, a man can buy four
year old trees at apiece and
-affi5a.T hare them Gtrahsplantsd for twenty-five
cents apiece. These trees will bear in
aFsgaf. q years from the transpianting, and
in five years will produce 900 oranges
m to the tree worth from fifteen to twenty
five dollars before they are gathered.
Tnis favoriJe method of starting
grove aud creates quite demand for
young trees There a great many
men Tho grow seedlings to supply ths
demand An will produce 800
seedlings that IN four years will be
worth one dollar apiece. is the profit
is SO enormous, the abot so light and
the reward SO certain, in orange plautz
ri IA ~ Inv, 1T may be asked why Florida Is not
Zone solid orange grove? reply that
it is very rapidly becoming The
sfs number Of new trees set out in the past
ten years is sin ply incredible. These
- new trees have hardly begun bearing as
yet when their fruit does come on, the
world will be astonished at the amazing
fertility of our american Italy Some
idea of the extent of the new groves
may be had when L call TO nd that
within radius of ten miles Of Lees
burg, Sumter county, there are $1,000
trees that will be bearing fall fruitage In
three or four years. At eight hundred
oranges to the tree, very low estimhte,
there will be furnished annually, three
years from now, from this half county,
40000000 Of oranges This IS but one
- of a score Of similar orange centers.
-t Mr. Bishop authorizes the statement
that IN the past ten years there have
been SOC, GOO new oranges trees set out,
wild trees recaimed in Florida. This
viii involve an addition to the crop OF
,earFs 100000 of yoTangest : Buts the develop
ment IS now going on faster than sEer
lei probable that 50, 700 new trees will
81 be set out this year; some say 60000
There is hardly a planter that have
met who does not know Of two or three
M men who are putting out groves rangin g
from two hundred 10 one thousand trees.
u aas - =--A----
Snakes Rained Down at Memphis.
CDur.hg the heavy rain storm January
TO- a fall OF small live snakes was no
tieed IA the southern parf of Memphis,
l. fvuls.