Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-16
TROPICAL FRUITS.
THE LARGE AND INTERESTING DIS
PLAY At NEW ORlEAN6.
rieties Of SUPPLEMENTARY
Kinds of Oranges from Florida
-California's Display.
New Orleans Cor. Inter-Ocean.l

New Orleans Cor Inter-Oceanl
The display of citrus and other tropica
fruits at New Orleans has been very larg,
and interesting. The countries contributing
outside Of ths United States ara Mexico
Honduras. and Jamaica Mexico has con
tributed in great many ways to the success
of the exposition. She sent a very larg'
number Of plants-enoush to have formed
very interesting feature II they had not beer
80 poorly handled in transportation as Il
present a very shabby and unthrifty ap
pearance. As il is, her orchids, agaves. and
cacti have attracted great deal Of at,en
ton Her fruits have been offered in con
siderable variety, and at times she has
shown soma very fine tables
Sac has sent Us many things with the
flames Of which we are not very familiar,
such as macrozamias, tunas, zapotes, coro
EOS, calabashes, chayotes, granaditas, and
sapodillos. She also furnishes very fins
specimen; of the familiar cocoanuts, the
banana, lime', lemons in variety, several
kinds Of beautifully colored, sweet, but moi
very high favored oranges, and very fine
pineapple. She also displays several kinds
OF nuts, and enormous vans and sweet po-
tatoes.
HONDURAS FRUITS.
| Honduras has offered very fine cocoanuts,
prunes, bananas and oranges, and adds to
| these enormous specimens of sugar-cane.
Jamaica has a more distinctly tropical line
Of productions in her exhibit One feature
Of her display is her sugar-canes. which
number about eighty varieties, which have
been collected from all parts Of the world
and tested by DIR. Morris. director OF the
government botanical gardens OF that isl
AMI. In fruits she has fine display Of the
citrus family, embracing many varieties Of
lemons, LINES, oranges, citrons and shad-
docks. She also has bananas, p;ne-apples
and cocoanuts, and in addition mangoes,
vanilla beans, coffee berries. the fruit which
yields our mace and nutmeg, cashen nuts,
several kind, OF granaditas fruits borne by
several species of the passion vine), guavas,
avocaioes, sapo1illos, and a long line Of
canned novelties.
FLORIDA ORANGES.
There has been a good display Of Florida
fruits from the opening day until the pres
ent tims 1t was, however, upon Feb IA
that she made her grand competitive exDi-
bition Of about 4. 900 plates of fruit, largely
of the citrus family, but including fine speci-
mems Of the pine apple, banana, cocoanut,
and guava- The exhibit of immense citrus
fruits was quite astonishing There were
citrons ten inches in their longest diameter,
and weighing from eight to eleven pounds
There wsre immense rose shaddocks, pale,
gobular, smootn-skinned fruits seven or
eight inches in diamster, and grape fruits Of
smaller sizs but still very wonderful OF
course these novelties excited great deal of
surprise, but after all it is the orange ami
lemon display, which is commercially i'm.
portant.
Florida has shown on her tables about
seventy-fve distinct varieties Of the orange
This fact alone was a matter Of establishment
TO many at the north, who seem to he en-
tirely unacquaintei with the fact that there
is as great a range of difference in size, ap-
pearance. and flavor among oranges as there
is with apples.
CALIFORNIA; DISPLAY.
To those who had known California
oranges only by the coarse seedlings which
have thus far formed the bulk of her export
the excellence of much of this fruit was
quite a.surprise. So fine an impression was
ma lie by this magnificent showing that al
though Florida took the grand sweepstakes
prize for her general collection Of citrus
fruits, and had thirty-three premiums on
special exhibit. besides eleven silver and
tbfec Soii inelais, inc flVeTSiue oranges
took first premium as best collection, en-
bracing as it did the largest number OF va
rietieS, watch counted in her favor in the
plan adopted by the judges But in justice
to Fl 1riia it should be stated that where the
same or an equal number of varieties were
pittei against each other the points were
almost universally in her favor
ORANGE GROWING.
Oranges in California are usually from
the Tahite seed, which i, the best the market
affords, being free from admixture with
other citrus fruits Tbs seei of the orange
IS long in negotiating, often remaining several
weeks in the seed-bed, where it must not DO
allowed to tee Jme dry before it appears
above ground. Being planted in April about
eight inches Of growth is made the first sea-
son. The plants are then transplanted in
nursery rows, to he removed in the field at 3
years Of age unless they are budded. in
which case they remain in nursery one or
two years longer. Not until the eighth or
ninth year does the Seeding become product.
i've. lut from the budied fruit specimens
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