The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-05-31


sorrel for sances and jeilIes I; some of
these might do well as succession
or late crop. Weeds will make
lively progress this month, and soon
smother vegetables of less active
growth, with the inevitable result OF
monopolizing all the good of the
ground to a base and pernicious
growth. The chances are, that Tor
after culture on the same ground,
much more labor and more fertiliz-
ing will be needed its present use>
fulness is compromised, and the UNI
sightliness of weeds and crops vege.
tating, is Teprehensible in all good
gardening. 1t does not pay to grow
weeds, and what good they do to the
soil is more than compensated by
what they have taken from it. Where
no routine of crops is established on
the same piece of ground, it is only a
matter of time, long or short as the
case may be, when the particular
plant made use of, succumbs to iner-
walton, and brings poverty and sick
ness to the soil, very difficult to Grads
icate. How often has the terse res
mark been made about soils that once
grew bale of cotton to an acre con-
tinuously for years, that it is now so
poor as not to be capable of sprout,
ing COW peas. We would thus recs
ommenG a continual stirring OF the
ground among growing crops.
A diversity of opinion exists
among orange growers as to, clean
and no culture, fertiIizlng and not
fertilizing, pruning and not prun
ming, and 1t is needless to say here, the
negatives" are behind in the race.
We bad long ago considered, and
continue to think that orange grow
ing is business, and must be attend.
ed to In order that it may succeed.
In too many cases with a number of
people it is a prospect consisting of
a certain amount of waiting, and an
underlined longing for their first fruit,
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and the trees completely cover The
ground, (say in the third year from
planting,) no further attention is ne-
cessary till they have arrived at ma.
turity and are tit for barking.
AS indicating the value of Gin.
chona planting in the Blue Noun
tajns--taking these 379 trees, which
occupied an area OF less than 120
square yards-it was estimated that
if they yielded on the average one
pound of dry bark per tree, younger
trees at the Government Plantations
yielded II pounds per tree,) each
tree would be worth at least 5s.; this
would give 994 los. as the value Of
379 trees on an area of l20 square
yards-one fortieth of an acre. I'M
der ordinary conditions it would not
however, be advisable to plant the
trees so closely as this, but the value
OF an acre oe land planted with trees
even at one>halt the above rate would
amount to more than 81, 800. Large
as this sum may seem, it appears that
with the previous Ledgeriana Bark,
grown by the Dutch in Java, ia few
plants OF which have just been intro.
duced to Jamaica,) the yield per acre,
as quoted by Mr.. John Elliot How.
ard, F. r. s. Pharmaceutical Jow-
nal, No, 534, p. 244) is estimated,
from actual sales, at $4,000 per acre.
The natural inference from these
remarks will be: If Cinchona is so
productive a cultivation and these
large sums are obtainable with SO
much ease and Facility, will not such
large areas be ultimately planted
with Cinchona as to lower the prices
and render the culture unremunera-
tive +? Commercially, of course cheap
ness means small profits, and, as with
all other products, SO with Cinchona,
the supply should not exceed the de-
mand. But to examine these points
in detail. The demand tor quinine
is so extensive, and the terrible death
roll amongst all nations of the world
from tevers, for winch quinine is the
sole remedy, is so vast that there is
no prospect whatever at present OF
the price OF quinine being seriously
reduced. On the other hand, the
prices OF good quiuine>yielding barks
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