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

and tender, juice sub-acid and vinous.
Quality best. Tree prolific and very
thorny. Native Seeding.
Medium. fair; skin smooth and thin /:
pulp fine, juicy, sweet and excellent This
variety was awarded twice the first pre-
MUM at the State Fair for quality.
OLD VIM.
| Size above medium; color, dark orange /:
skin rather rough, medium; pulp rather
coarse, juicy, sweet and remarkable for a
| sprightly aromatic favor.
TARDIFF.
| Large, dark orange; skin smooth and
thin; pulp rather tough; grain fine, juicy
and sweet; an ordinary orange but yalu.
able for its late ripening qualities.
ARCADIA
Size large, color deep, skin smooth, me-
dunn pulp deep rich color, coarse melt
ing, juicy and sub-acid.
SWEET SEVILLE.
| Small, color dark, skin thin, pulp very
| fine, juicy, melting and very sweet and
| sprightly.
Synonym, Rembert's Best = Large.
round; color light, clear orange F;
skin smooth, fine and thin iuicy; Juice
sub-acid; flavor delicious; quality best.
Tree prolific, vigorous and very thorny.
Native seeding.
MAGNUM BoNUM.
Size large to very large; fiattened; color
light, clear orange skin smooth and
i
fruit heavy and juicy juice sweet, rich
vigorous and very thorny. Native seed
ling.
Large color dark; grain coarse; inner
rind bitter juice acid. Retains its perfec-
ton throughout the summer, when ii is
much priced for its refreshing acid juice !:
used also for making marmaade and con-
serves. The tree bears young very pro-
life; vigorous makes desirable and
ornamental shade tree. Native wild orange
of Florida.
BITTER SWEET.
Medium size; juice sweet and pleasant
when separated from the inner bitter rind
Used in summer as a substitute for the
sweet fruit. Tree indistinguishable from
the above. Native wild orange of Florida
PROPAGATION.
Mr.. Spalding's method was to buy trees
for his orchard and planting seeds from
some other mans orchard He planted in
June. He made boxes Is by inches out
of . shocks" left cracks of a quarter inch
between the bottom boards for drainage,
the lids not placed. Sediment was had
from ravine winter-fooded, fine washed
soil, grayish black. light and crumbling
readily, as near pure humus as nature ever
prepares. This was pulverized, screened,
and q third part of sifted sand added. This
made warm, rich, gravel-free soil, that
| would not pack. The boxes were two
thirds filled and leveled off with board,
notched at the ends so as to let the middle
section drop down below the box edge.
in cut elsewhere shown, on
ground graded to level. Under
the boxes are placed narrow strips,
| to permit free circulation of air beneath for
warmth and drainage. The boxes made 10
rows, 16 to the row. in four tiers, with Is
inches between the tiers alleywsvS, and no
| alleys around the outside. For seed, we'll
matured seedlings were chosen, and these
werehad cheaplyin quantity from partially
rotted fruit However, foreign seeds have
since been used From thoroughly rotted
| fruit the seeds are extracted by use of q
sieve of 4-inch meshes. Sound fruit was
cut latitudinally nearly to the seeds, the
| halves torn apart and the seeds forced out
! by the ball of the thumb The seeds must
not dry before planting and to keep them
moist they may be kept in a bucket Of
water until used. Size and plumpness arc
! the best tests for native seeds, the fuller be-
| ing the more fertile. With Tahiti seeds the
water test is reliable-reject all that float
PREPARATORY TO PLANTING.
When row of boxes is in place they
were sprinkled lightly to give consistency
| to the soil. A 19-inch board, with outside
guides to slip over the boxes and set with
round beaded pins, and called The
Stamper" ELSEWHERE illustrated), was then
applied leaving Ia little indentations. One
seed only was then dropped into each hole.
Then half inch of the prepared soil was
put in as a covering, another and more
shallow striker used to level off. and then
came the wetting and spraying with fine
, rose sprinkler until the soil was well
moistened
Mr.. Spalding's propagating house re-
sembled chicken-coop. 1t is elsewhere
illustrated. 1t was rooted over with lath,
and was 20x30 feet in size and feet in
hight 1t was built of 2x3 wood-posts.
Is feet apart, and longitudinal posts
as shown The lath-work was in re-
movable panels on the sides and
roof to give all the sunshine needed
or afforded semi-shade without removing
the boxes. This house covered the boxes,
of course. Around its sides was base of
three-inch strips with open spaces Of an
inch between to guard against depredating
animals. This house is deemed very super
ior to muslin structures in every way.
THE BOX SYSTEM
Distributes the seeds regularly secures
room in plenty, renders transplanting I'M
necessary for year, when the tree is ready
for the nursery and can be taken directly in
the boxes, and by use of Widney, OF
other transplanter, ball of earth can be
taken up with the roots, thus augmenting
the life chances of the plant The ex
pense of the $50 boxes and the house and
soil and labor is S67 40 for the Is 900 seeds
planted. The house should be convenient
to water the surface of the soil
must not become dry at first.
A mulching with wheat chaff over the
boxes after planting aids in retaining the
moisture. The boxes must not be kept
too wet, for ",iamping of may occur and
the roots, stems and leaves rot. At first
irrigation was had every alternate day, and
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the rains set in. In six weeks the shoot.
began TO appear, and in three months all
were UP. Where any fail extra plants are
made. Wedding must be attended to and
the soil kept clean. Manure that pro-
duces interlopers greatly increases labor
Sacks must De used to protect the plants
from the cold.
As result of the process described, Of
$4,000 seeds planted 10000 became trees
from four to twelve inches in hight in one
wear and were worth $3.50