Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08


 that these experiments are not conduct ed with view to replacing any varie- ty of tree or fruit which can now be grown successfully in any part of the country. On the contrary, it is to pro- vide unique hybrid not competing with California oranges and not in the same class as lines, but of a quality little richer than that fruit. We i'm port large quantities of marmalades from Scotland It is a product manu- factured from oranges grown in Spain and the south of France in the main. Our sweet oranges of established va rieties are not entirely suited for such purposes, but these new fruits are. Their growth on large scale will open new field of American manufacture, which will provide home marmalades of as fine quality as now imported from Europe"
 An interesting feature of the scien- tific work on these lines is the an nouncement that several additional va rieties of eitranges, each possessing special features of merit are in proc ess of development and will be given to the country next spring. One of these produces fruit 80 much like the ordinary orange in size and appear ance that it can be distinguished only by an expert pomologist Still anoth- CT variety, differing in flavor and tree characteristics, is being propagated for distribution as soon as the experiment. CTS determine as to it's relative value in comparison with spresent varieties.
 While the fruit bearing characterls- ties of these hybrid plants attract the most attention, much interest is also felt in their fine foliage. For propaga- ton. as lawn trees and hedge plants some of the hybrid oranges are far superior in general adaptability to the trifoliate oranges often grown for that purpose. They have handsomer and much denser foliage and have the evergreen characteristic. retaining the greater part of their foliage all winter. The only objection to their use in this manner is q scientific one. In order to improve the fruits quality the new cltranges have been made nearly seed less and would have to be propagated by budding. But natures generosity in increasing in one direction what has been lost In another has been shown by the development of two other hy- brids, which have the desirable hedge characteristics. while lacking the fruit bearing qualities of the Rusk and the Willits varieties. If the tests of the unnamed hybrids reveal qualities which will permit their easy and mex pensive propagation as hedge plants they will be developed along those lines and distributed throughout the coun- try.
 Other experiments have brought into existence new kind of kid glove" orange which is called a tangelo and is a hybrid of the tangerine and the pomeIo. It has been named the Sam son. partly because of its strong acid flavor. which it is thought will com mend it to its popular taste. A linn tied amount of stock of this variety is to be distributed next spring to pri- vate growers. who have given evidence of their interest in developing new spe- cies and who therefore prove valuable adjuncts to the work of the depart ment. Two new tangerines with the desirable characteristics of producing fruit larger than the ordinary varie- ties and nearly two weeks earlier are also being propagated and have arous- cd much interest among horticulturists.
 This commercial interest in new fruits is attracting especial attention entirely apart from the scientific inter est In creating new varieties. It has been discovered that some of the prin- eipal markets are coming to demand fruits of a certain size and others of certain degree Of lusciousness or acid quality As soon as these tenden- cies become suffiaenfly pronounced to represent a definite public taste. as It were. growers realize the desirsbiiity of planting selected varieties possess ing the characteristics called for. This has been one of the special aims of the scientists develop new seedlings which will produce fruit uniform in size and of lnrariable good quality. Unusual success has attended the ex- perimeuts Of the department experts toward these ends. and t is expected that the coming season will see the distribution of two hybrids. one grow ing a small fruit and the other a large one. but in both cases produced mainly near the exterior of fbe tree. As fruit % grVun can he picked with much greater fscfliU than when it must be taken from an parts of the tree. fhis development ls regarded ss of u1usnai commercial importance. Taken ia csn- nectioa with the deTeIopment of fhe kybrid szifsiiie f1z uarnzlads mznn. faefsre fhe resnifz C the recent sx- peFiments are rsszanisd. especially fruzn the eomnerrisf Fiswroint, as n4fk1az a n1teUorihy adva1cs Ia Ar<rzrsn fruit ETtsinE