The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-03-09
Citrus Trifo,ia,a.


The Green Cove springs saws: a
couple of v ars ago Mr. e. G. Hen,is
sent 10 japan, where he secured a
large gu unity of citrus trifoliata seeds
which he planted on his place In the
western suburbs, aud his success has
been quite marked. Meeting Air
Bemis few days since we foui.d hin,
ina talkalive mood, and his CONVEX.
satiOn Will no doubt prove OF interest
to thUse engaged in orange culture.
When asked how his citrus trifolIat,
trees were getting on he said:
Nicely; come ous aud see them,n
"IUu budded some Of them last fall,
did you not?'
yes, about 900. They were then
hardly ready To bud, but are now IN
nice condition for this sprlng and
summers budding. Those / did bud.
hoSever, are Going well. They were
budded in August, SEPTEMBER and
October, and made growlhs, the best
sixteen inches, aud from that down
to dormant buds. l budded with
SItsuna, Mediterranean Sweet.
Daucy's Tangerlue, Iemon ana IL few
grape frult. All seem 10 do equally
We'll
ID" you think lemons will be hardy
here Oh trilolialaW
IL can't see why they should not.
The orange, unless such authority as
G sIlisiO, k,vers,. Downing aud others
are AL mistaken, will stand 2J' vi
fIe,z.n- vi hout INJURY " hen perfectly
DORMANT, aud The lemon, la my tx
perience, does not diifcr much from
1t. Tue lemon shows u tendency TO
grow here every warm spell Ia winter,
IL Is true, and Is therefore almost
always IN a condition Ia be caught hv
frost; but ali this the IriIoIAtl stock
e0rreeIs absolutely. II is d decidiuos
tree, shedding its ieav, here The hast
OF November, OF the first OF December
at latest, all uutIi the sweet orange
Is III tull bloom II remains in absolute
rest. Our oranges aud lemons have
bes u growing more or less for "a month
past, are now btgiuning 10 bloom and
are in condition TO be badly hurt by
even slight freeze, as the frost this
week has shown, although 34S was
the lowest point recorded 10y govern
nlent thermometer. IL 1856 nay Their
mOmeter Went down To l59 above zero,
aud il Was lret zing weather Tor three
days. OF course most of my orange
trees We're badly damaged, many OF
them killed 10 The ground, but had
a few trees, not at all protected, that
We're not in the least hur indeed
had some lennon Trees that were 10.
hurt. Why? simply Lecause the,
We're at rest. We have been trying
all SORTS of plans Tor The last twenty
during wint, +, and have failed. Lpok
at my trees now--On lriluliata stock
not bud swetled, and if We had had
a severe fire, q This month, even as
severe as in 1885. feel perfectly sure
that uot even lemon wonld be iu-
jur, d. They could not be, for t ere is
no sap in them 10 freeze, and there
could be no disruption of the wood
cells"
but, admitting its hardness, is not
the trifoliata TOO dwariish in its habits
10 make desirable sto, k for the
orang lemon or grape fruit?"
can only say that | saw citrus
trifoliata on NIr. Thomas ROBBERS
place here grow in five years from Il
rooted cutting not much larger than
pencil to II tree three inches in
diameter aud ten feet in height, with
a good average top, and this on low
land underlaid ut eighteen inchs 5
with a foot OF hardpam. Nothing
else in the citrus line grows So fast
ia the same yard, l sent direct to
japan for sted, and having noticed
in GallisiO work on The citrus
family that there seemed TO be many
allied varieties, | WAS particular tO
say that / wanted seed from hardy,
large growing variety. got the seed,
and il was in the ground here in less
than thirty days after il was out of
the fruit in japan. Think that ~hen
we know more about trifOliatt we
will find standard and dwarf varieties
of it. Indeed it would he str,nge if
the Chinese and japanese had not
got The varieties dwarted, considering
their wcll,knOwn p, nehant for dwarf
ing everything IN the shape Of tree.
But, be this as it may, 1 have never
got as large "A growth with the same
care from either sweet or sour seed in
two years, as l now have from citrus
trif,litta, and can see no tendency
TO dwarf
The editor of The Spings visited
Mr. Benis' nursery some months ago,
and was astOni-hrd at the rapid
growth of the citrus lrfnliata Trees,
and we notice from the catalogues of
the Florida nurserymen that they are
taking up this member of the orange
family That it has "A future there i
little doubr, and orange growers who
do not give il trial, are in our opin-
ion, standing IN their own light.
La Grippe.
During the prevalence of the Grippe