Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-15

| rallied and last year two OF them bore
fruit which he ate and found fine. All the
trees are now doing as well as trees could
do. The very severe blizzard of the LIST of
| last March, which cut down most of the
| ordinary orange trees in this region,
nipped only the buds and tip-enGs of tIas
branches for the Satsuma. About ore
month ago each and every tree bsgRn
budding out, apparently racing to $40
which shonld get the most growthIn tn
! shortest time. The blizzard had mol
even killed all the fruit buds, for four OF
| the trees showed blossoms-one had at
| least 100 blooms on it.
All of which says about as much as one
could desire should be said IN favor OF
the Unshin or Satsums orange, as some
! thing we'll adapted TO culture in all the
coast regions of Southern Texas at least.
The present outlook would seem to indi-
cate that il will prove hardy in any region
where the Japan persimmons can get
through the frosts of winter. We would
give it trial in any such region or local
ity.
The people of this country appear to
be good deal interested in the name by
which the new orange should be known.
OF course Floridians will never call it by
any other name tina Satsuma. The
name Is a very agreeable one, easily
spoken, but whether or not it could be
considered the correct name according to
rules governing in such cases is another
thing. A back copy of he Pacific Fruit
Grower, now before us, discusses this
subject. In it appears letter from Mr..
Fl. Z. Amoore, dated at Yokohama, Sep
TENDER l6, 1887, which claims that Oon-
shin is the correct name-the name by
which the variety is known in Japan.
He says the two first letters are sounded
the same as "oo' in moon, and not as
"u' in sun. If it is spelled on the
American plan stunshin' the Gu"
should be sounded as 800 In later
issue of the same paper Mr.. 1--WE Hay
ami, Japanese member of the Oriental
Importing company, of California, re-
plies to MIR. Amoore and says the name,
for English pronunciation, should be
spelled "unshin, - and that the two
first letters should be sounded as in
gun. He claims that, being native of
Japan, he ought to understand some
thing of his own language. And thus
the matter stands.
The Unshin or Satsuma orange is en-
tirely seedless, hence we have no way of
prOpdRdIluS IL Olu6r ludu ny OuuuluB VI
grating. In writing of 1t through the
Pacific Fruit Grower, Mr.. AmOore says
it has growth very different from that
of any other orange. 1t does not attain
to a height of over ten or twelve feet,
but it covers a comparatively great
area. He writes from Japan and says
he has just measured one tree that is
seventy feet around the branches.
The branches droop, with many
of them resting their ends upon
the ground. In Japan the tree is not
pruned on the stem, though scraggling
young shoots are often cut off from the
top of the tree to keep it low and COM
pact. The lower branches, which start
almost directly from the ground, COM
pletely hide the trunk. On rich land,
which the tree should always have, it is
planted so close together that the
branches of different individuals often
interlook. 1t is regarded as the best
orange grown in Japan, (and this is say
ing good deal for it); in all his travels
over that country he has never yet met
a Japanese who did not pronounce it the
very best.