Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03

known. Mr.. Shorb, Los Angeles, producer
before referred to, says "that on this coast
oranges remain for period of at least from
four to six months on the trees after they are
matured without decay. thus giving us
that period to ship in, while other
orange producing countries are compelled
to ship their fruit as soon as it is
matured, and very often before. While other
countries are compelled to gather their entire
crop in a very limited time, we can supply
the market as fast as the consumption
warrants" If we possess such great advan-
tages over other orange-producing countries
ties are producing surplus, what will be
our advantages when we are producing
oranges all along the foothills, and in Cen
trail California, and the crop in the foothills
begins to ripen from six weeks to two months
earlier than it now does in these southern
counties? We will then be able to supply
the demand for oranges at home and abroad
for six months in the year, and our orange
crop will become almost as much staple of
the worlds commerce as is now cur wheat
crop. In further proof of the shipping and
keeping qualities of our oranges, Mr.. Shorb
states, "eight boxes of oranges were gath
cred and shippsd from my orchard about the
last of March, 1875, to Wells, Fargo Go. 3
agents in London, Messrs. Eiris & Albin.
They were shipped to San Francisco by
steamer, thence over to New York, and from
there by steamer to Liverpool, where they ar
rived in perfect order and condition, not one
being decayed and gave general satisfaction.
+. M. Shaw, in 1874, took with him from the
Wolfskill orchard, Los Angeles. two boxes of
oranges across the Isthmus to New York,
and then to England, consuming in the trip
forty-nine days and through tropical eli
mate, and yet the oranges arrived in perfect
condition. Mr.. Shaw in his report of the
party of ladies and gentlemen who partook
of the full, favored and uice-looking oranges
in Londonderry, ireland, and Edinburgh,
Scotland, that the delicate and luscious sam
weeks in transit, but the authority of the fact
was indisputable." In both these cases the
oranges were fully ripe when picked With
these facts well authenticated it may be reas-
onably assumed that when we produce the
oranges, we may depend on not only the At
lantic States, but the. Canadas and Europe
also for market.
BUDDING THE ORANGE.
West Indies islands are seedlings, as also are
most of those produced by the old orchards
in this State; but more modern cultivaters
are rejecting the Seeding tree system and are
planting in the orchards budded trees almost
exclusively. The advantages of budding the
orange were well set forth in discussion on
this subject in 1877 before the Southern Cal
ifornian horticultural Society, when the
most experienced cultivators of that section
gave their views. We cannot present these
advantages in more forcible light than by
quoting some of the points made by the
speakers. Thomas A. Gray said "It
would pay to raise fine stock or fine fruits of
other varieties All fine fruits are at first
the result of accident, and the fine varieties
are perpetuated by budding. A thousand
peach pits would produce numberless varie-
ties of the peach, while probably only one
would be worth perpetuating. The same
rule applies to the orange, only not to so
great an extent. The orange is more true to
other known fruit. Good seed, or seed from
fruit will generally produce trees that will
produce good fruit, but not always. Nur-
serymen get seed from the poorest oranges,
generally because these oranges contain more
seed, but those seed will produce trees that
will bear inferior fruit, unless budded One
advantage of budding is early bearing, budded
trees producing fruit three or four years
earlier than seedlings" Mr.. Short says
"My own experience teaches me the neces-
sity of budding. My budded trees are larger
than seedlings of the same age, and the fruit
is certainly as good. Nor have l been able
less. In conclusion, will say that budding
enables US to grow uniformly good fruit,
and of different chosen varieties not obtain
able otherwise. 1t shortens the time of fruit
ing and relieves the orchardist of several
years of expense and care, and oftentimes
grinding poverty. L therefore give my I'M
qualified opinion that it will not only pay to
bud the orange, but as intelligent men
we cannot afford. to do otherwise y
The Committee on Semi-tropical Fruits, APP
pointed by the Society above named, re-
ported upon this subject as follows: "The
committee find budding the orange and
lemon SO universal that no argument is needed
in this report on this branch of the subject.
Many foreign varieties of orange are in sue
cessful cultivation and many of the Los An
geles seedlings have been perpetuated by
budding. Several orchards of the latter are
now in fine bearing" Those who propose to
plant orange orchards will do well to secure
budded trees of the best named and recog-
nized kinds.
VARIETY TO CULTIVATE.
With the orange, as with all other kinds of
fruit it is better to cultivate but few of the
best varieties than to cultivate large num-
Der of kinds, many of which must be infe-
rior. In this State one of the best kinds SO
far produced is Garey's Mediterranean Sweet.
OF this orange the Los Angeles Herald
says: at commences to fruit the second