Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-16

SoU per acre year, out, III aGulLlOn 10 lDls
work, he must give a certain amount of
personal care and attention not called for
in the $50 per acre contract. If he expects
10 hire all the work done, but to supervise
it in person and do a little himself occa-
sionally, $50 per acre ought to keep an
orchard in good shape tor one year.
with this years crop, Mr. Twogood
will have taken about $4,000 of fruit from
his six acres in twelve years since planting
all of which, of course, has been within
the last six years. The orchard has cost
him something like the following figures :
Six acres of land at S25 per acre........ S150
Four hundred and fifty trees at 81 EACH. $50
Twelve years of care at $50 per acre yr... 2lG0
Interest on amount at 10 percent for6yrs. CSC
Total investment $40
1854
lin order to avoid false impression, l
should say that such land is no longer to
be had in Riverside at $25 an acre, but is
worth, unimproved, ten times that figure |
The present value of property each one
can estimate for himself. Can Mr.. Two
good afford to sell that orchard for 5000
per acrep'
not realize s. per box for his fruit, but at
to estimate. his returns will be $500 an
acre.
If in the evolution of the orange in
dustry, the time shall come when grove
in full bearing yields only 800 an acre net,
the profit ought to satisfy a man of mod
crate ambition. With ten acres in trees,
yielding a revenue of 81 900 a year, and
the hundred and one accessories and econ
omies of country life, man ought to be able
to live and support family. He may en-
Joy not only the substantial comforts, but
many of the elegancies of life. This is an
independence
CHARACTEBIsTIcs-B vARIETIEs-THE
RIVERSIDE NAVEL.
Lack of space prevents our considering
this important subject further than to refer
to the established conclusions, that the
orange revels in high temperatures that
the capacity of trees greatly vary; that the
lemon and lime are more susceptible to
cold and frost; that the orange here is
long-hved. The leading orange varieties
are very numerous; but one can count on
his fingers those desirable for budding The
chief classes of orange are the Riverside
navel Mediterranean sweet paper rind st.
Michael and Maltese blood, all foreign.
Every other orange is giving way TO the
Riverside navel, which has come to be uni
versally acknowledged TO be the best. A
small proportion of Mediterranean sweet
st. Michael and Maltese blood are planted
and it is likely that other kinds will find
their way to share of popular favor.
The Riverside Navel, also known as
Washington Navel Umbilical, Bahia, EN-
bIgou, is of medium size, round, skin smooth
and of fine texture; nearly seedess juicy
high favored pulp melting; quality the
best. The popularity which gives this
fruit its name is q protuberancei in the bios
som end closely resembling the human
navel. This is in reality a little kernel
enveloped in the skin, which when ex-
amined proves to be an aborted orange
The tree is semi-dwarf, and has few small
thorns. In 1873 the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington imported several
orange trees from Bahia, Brazil. One of
these was sent to Mrs. L. C. Tibhits. of
Riverside, San Bernardino county, this
State, who distributed a few buds among
some friends. But littleattention was paid
to the original tree or TO its offspring until
1879, when some of the fruits were ex-
hibited. Their beautiful color peculiar
form, and excellent quality attracted imme-
diate attention, and stimulated It's propa-
CATION. 1t was named Riverside Navel TO
distinguish it from the Australian Navel.
introduced about the same time The lat
ter is distinctly ribbed lengthwise, Of light
color and inferior quality, while the River
side is smooth, of a golden bronze tint and
fine texture satin-like skin its flavor is
misunderstanding like combination of
the best qualities of the Messina and Flor
ida oranges-and the fruit has the adddi-
tional advantage of few or no seeds. Since
the Riverside Navel made its appearance
1t has eclipsed all competitors, and has
taken first premiums wherever exhibited
Soon after it was brought to public notice
Mr. T. W. Cover, of Riverside, became pro-
prietor of the original stock, and he dis
seminated buds throughout the orange
growing portion of the State.
MEDITERRANEAN SWEET.
Medium to large oval pulp and skin of
fine texture favor delicate, less acid than
other variety of orange grown here nearly
seedless; ripens late The tree is a semi
dwarf almost thornless, natures early and
has tendency to overbear. Fruit should
be thinned vigorously to insure a fair
growth of wood and development of fruit
remaining. Thomas a. Carey, who intro
duced this orange, says of it =" About the
year 1870 / imported several varieties of
orange trees from Messrs Ellwanger &
Barrys nursery at Rochester, n. Y. /
think the importation included all the
varieties offered for sale by this firm. One
of the trees was labeled Shdddock When
the Shaddock fruited. the fruit proved to be
a first-class orange, instead of the coarse
worthless fruit its name led me to expect.
| called it Garey's Fayorite, but subse-
quently christened it Gareys Mediter-
ranean Sweet Aessrs. Ellwanger & Barry
were appealed to. but could not identify the
fruit with any known variety" Next to
the Washington Navel, the Mediterranean