The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-12-03

ProuuceS a mass OF Wnlte and elastic
fibre. These gentlemen assert that
they can reduce the cost of mat
tresses 40 per cent. and then make a
profit which will cause every man in
the company to feel like tibet.
The Nomenclature. of the Citrus.
(Concluded. }
Read before the Lake George Fruit Growers, Associ
alton by Arthur H. Manville, ESQ.,
1t is not my purpose to undertake
an exhaustive consideration of this
controversy. The liability of this
genus to mixed fertilization, aud the
consequent unreliability of Seeding
trees, the advantages OF budded trees
in respect to size, longevity, fruitful
ness, liability to injury from frost and
disease, ETC., have been recently set
forth, at length by our president, DR..
Peters, and other able writers. |
also notice some items of interest
bearing on this subject, in a letter
from MIR. S. w. Pye, OF Australia, in
The FLORIDA AGRTcU1TURIsT. 70
should like to call your attention
to another phase of this subject
which is. awakening considerable in
terest among orange growers. 1 re.
fer to the difference of the fruit of a
particular variety in different loca-
tions and under different modes of
culture, to the variation of the oranges
upon the same tree in one season,
and to the liability OF the fruit OF a
single tree to vary from year to year.
In recent letter to the Pomological
Committee of the Florida Fruit
Growers Association, Mr.. J.. d.
lis Rss'gsa gsas 81 say fiS 5esslng orlgi6aI 81
stock was lot Of solne two hundred
large trees, (seedlings) found some
thirty-fve years ago in Turnbull
hammock. \ /
The difficulty of diving distinct
i've name to any fruit, or to any from
the same original stock, seems to be
that it has mo distinctive character
except as given by location and treat
ment. My fruit differs from that of
the Dummit grove or any other that
l have seen, and no two groves on
the coast produce exactly the same
kind. Again the same grove pro-
duces different fruit in different sea-
sons. Trees vary a good deal from
one year to another, and it is not un.
common to find good and poor, sweet
and sour, upon tree at the
same time. Fruit from the Dummit
grove last year was very red--mine
was very light yellow. That was
rough while mine was smooth. Ham.
mock land oranges from the same
stock are SO different from pine land
fruit that no sort of resemblance can
be traced between them" The
facts here stated would seem at first
to throw the whole subject into con.
fusion. ttl. .. ,,..e.,.......
The dinerence Ill the fruit on one
tree at the same time. and upon the
same tree in different seasons NAV
result from several disturbing causes.
We have seen that the individuals of
this genus are exceedingly liable to
be influenced by foreign tecundation.
Usually this affects the seed and is
observable only in the plant resulting
therefrom. Sometimes, however,
through some extraordinary influence
the ovaries instead of the ovules are
affected and the alteration takes
place in the fruit. Thus we some
times see avelstree bearing orang-
es without their distinguishing mark,
and fruit of other varieties having
the appearance ot the navel, a fruit
closely resembling the lemon on an
orange tree, etc. This phenomena
is not common and is more likely to
occur where different species or va.
rieties are in close proximity than in
a grove of one variety. t.1iss.b e
Both seedlings and budded trees
for the first few years after coming
into bearing do not always produce
fruit entirely characteristic. The
fruit is liable to vary somewhat both