The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-06-09
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And Impor tant RssuIt u Is Cali-
afornias ana inc az orld. o ranses q fou-
Ing Revolnt ioniz 81 tho New
Fruit.
Twenty i've years 80. mere were no
seedless or naval oranges grown. a
few oranges were raised in lorida,Z
but the bulk Of the supply in America
came from the N diterranean ports,
and the fruit was expensive. The.
total annual yield 5Of Cali fornia or
anges was less than i've carl loads. Now
the annual orange yield in Cal fornia
is upward Of Is, 900 carloads, and next
. year It may exceed a2o, 900 carloads.
The total amount invested in orange.
properties in California twenty five
years ago was a boutE $23, 900. 4 81 Now
something like s4S 900. 900 is invested q: t
ID the orange industry in this state,
ana the amount is increasing by about
$4,000, 900 every year. The introduc--..
ton of the seedless naval orange has
caused these changes. It has revo-.
lutionized the orange Industry of the:
United States. 1t has drawn :, 900
men out of other pursuits has
transformed vast areas of sun b aked
land ia California into the most beau.
tiful orange groves that ever grew.
IL has been the; prime factor in the
growth from nc thing Of "a dozen towns
Of 5000, s, 900 and 10000 people in.
southern California, and. IT has added
directly more than 81 900, 900 and in
directly $50, OOO, 900 more to the taxa AKA
Bile wealth of the state.
The first seedless orange trees We're
apparently freaks lof nature. In the
summer Of 1872 William q B Judson,=
United States consul at Bahia, Brazil,
heard an account from natives Of a
few trees in the sWamps on the north
bank Of the Amazon some sixty miles
inland that bore # oranges without
seeds. He was of scientific bent and
q consul that knew his business. He.
had heard Of the starting Of orange
groves in Florida, and he believed.
that seedless orange trees were well
worth perimenting with there. So
he sent a native up the river to cut
some shoots off the trees and get some
Of the fruit When the native re-
turned the consul was delighted with
the specimens. Forthwith. he sent six
Of the orange tree shoots, carefully,
packed in wet moss. and clay to the
agricultural department. at Washing
ton for propa cation. The trees did rot.
excite as much attention as the enthu-:
siastic consul had expected. Two OF
the shoots, which were no bigger than
horsewhips, died from lack of care in
the department grounds and the 9TH
ers were almost forgotten in a few
months. @ Az (. s5t s.EE + Il. s5i 4
was establis hing an orange orchard Il
California, secured IA the ~ follr shoots
from the goYernmen t and planted
them on his property VI at r Riverside.
lOne:sof the shoots died and a COW
:cheWed up another. , I'll 81 #4s
Yiving trees came into bearing In
the winter Of 1850 they bore six
teen oranges, the first seedless oranges
ever grown in North America. The
specimens were carried about southern
California and shown to all ranchmen
and fruit growers. Nearly every one
believed that the fruit would become
coarse and tough in a few years more.
Sot7the second crop was awaited with
curiosity among the neighbors. There
We're about a box of oranges in the
second yield, and they were even bet
ter than those Of the first crop. y ,3,=
( Mr.. sTibbetts was sure that. there
was a fortune in his. new variety Of
oranges. For two years he expert
mented win propagating trees from
shoots and cuttings from his two
seedless orange trees. But all his att
tempts were failures. Finally he hit
upon the scheme Of budding from the
seedless naval trees upon Seeding
trees. Experiments along that line
were successful. It was found that a
bud taken from one of Tibbett's two
naval orange trees and grated into
the bark of Seeding tree would
grow to be a limb which bore seedlesss
naval oranges. .3 $s Is >3,S % 4ES
Then Mr.. Tibbetts grew tiny seed
ling orange trees, just as had been
done by orange growers for ages. and
budded into the trunk Of each little
tree several naval orange buds. w hen
the buds had become branches Of the
trees he cut away all the original or
Seeding ebranches, leaving only the
naval ofgange branches to bear fruit.
In this way he easily created naval
orange trees, and the problem Of
growing seedless oranges was solved;
IN The planting Of groves of seedless
orange trees propag gated from buds
from the two original trees on the
,Tibbetts place began in earnest.
throughout southern Calf ornia IN the
winter Of 1882. II In the following year
the demand for buds from the T lbs
belts trees was So large that a. dozen
buds sold frequently for S., and some