The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-08-29
MoRGANTowN VIRGINIA, SATURDAY. AUGUST % 1885,
ABOUT FROST.
No Part of the United States
Entirely Free from Frost and Slight
Freezes.

AHtHeiy tfCc HUiit fIOSt anu OilSil
I Freezes.
A Well knewn Floridian Tries to Shoy
Up the Advantages OF His state il
the Best Light-A Little Frost Ever
in Key West and Cuba.
AVON PARK, FLORIDA Aug. 20-Jus
now it is hot. 1t makes no differ
ence whether you are north or south
it is hot. 1t being hot all over tn,
country. it may make it more com
Portable if we take cool subject
therefore the subject is, frost.
assert that there Is no place in tho
United States that is not subject tt
more or less frost, and why not
This country is all in the Temperate
Zone. 1t would not be wholly TEN
perate if some part was absolutely
! free from frost But says one, .'Oran-
ges are tropical fruit, and must be
1 produced in tropical country
That is not true. Oranges may be
elassed as subtropical fruit, and can
be produced in what is known as a
subtropical section and we claim that
the south part of the state of Flori-
da is subtropieal. In every locality
where good orange is grown there
is an occasional frost. The orange
has great recuperative powers, often
trees will bear good crop the sec
ond year after having been frozen
down. quote from a report Of a
freeze over one hundred years ago in
Europe
In lfS2 all the orange trees in
Italy were destroyed by frost,
amongst Others grove at Finale,
that had been grated on the orangio
Oh grana Sweet seedling) by Gale
Sos father. All groves were cut
back to the ground, and as budding
was not known then, or not used
in orange culture, not being men
toned in any works on oranges, it
was necessary to allow shoots to
grow and gain strength before a
choice was made Of sthe most suita-
BILE for grating The second year
after the freeze and before they were
regrafted the sprouts of the mature
tree OF the orangio di grana (Sweet
seedling) began to bear Unfortu-
nately another frost killed all the
Finale Grove back in 1893, but in
1876 said seeding trees already
yielded, from their own natural
growth, an average of 5000 oranges
per tree.
Another writer speaking of the
Italian oranges says: Il would point
out that in Italy, particularly where
the tramontana (cold wind from the
Alps) and sirocco { hot wind from
Africa prevail, they plant grape
vines between every third and fourth
row of orange trees, letting them
climb upon high poles and trellises
These form wind breaks and shade,
and are considered otherwise bene-
fetal to the orange tree. The yield
of the grape at | to J cts. a pound for
wine making more than compensate
for what little extra expense they
incur in doing this
Thus it will be seen that even in
sunny Italy there was too much cold
and sometimes too much heat for
the successful growth Of oranges at
all times.
We will come nearer home, we all
know that southern California is
subject to freezes, that only last win
ter the dishonest growers of southern
California filled the fruit markets of
the east with frozen oranges. The
best orange is produced where there
is an occasional freeze, Italy, Cali
fornia and Florida. In 1774 Florida
had snow storm, which was ex-
perienced over large part of the
state. 1t has had good quantity
of cold weather since. Here is a
record that indicates something
about the climate of Jacksonville.
January 30, 1872, 2Sdegrees; Janu-
airy 10, 1873, "a degrees; December
70, 1873, 2s degrees; January 5,
1877, 81 degrees; January 7, 1879,
20 degrees; january 3, 1882, 32 de-
grees January 6, 1884, 81 degrees;
January y, 1886, Is degrees; De-
cember, 70, 1887, 81 degrees; Janu-
AIRY 20. 1890, 81 degrees; January
s, 1892, 80; December 20, 1894, IA
degrees; February 8, 1895, IA de
grees. These figures show that there
are but few winters in Florida but
that there is some frost, and show
that the northern part of the state