The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-27


a resident of PompanO, and who hat
erected Il small house and planted Ou
a few grava and mulberry trees ant
banana plants and some of these were
still growing, as were also couple
of lime trees.
Mr. Angevine enlarged the hOus,
ana. for two years raised vegetables
with more or less success, but he fin
ally decided to try to raise more fruit
as the lime trees seemed to do so well
To carry out this idea he planted some
sour orange seed and two years after
budded them with what he thought
We're grapefruit buds, and set them
out around Oh his muck land to grow
and now, years from the seed
he has some of as fine grapefruit
trees as you can find anywhere in the
State for their age, and filled with
fruit. some of them holding two to
three or more boxes to the tree the
fruit. in many cases, being i'm clusters
one noted having twelve in the cluster
and still larger one having eighteen
all on one branch.
In selecting buds he must have
made a mistake i'm the tree he gather
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to maturity it was noticed that instea d
of all of them being grapefruit, some
were orange. Now, he had been told
that orange would not do well on
muck land and for this very reason he
had tried to use nothing but grape
fruit buds but. seeing these orange
trees doing so well, he decided to let
them grow as long as they would and
Zee by his experience what the result
would be. These orange trees are now
also looking fine and fruiting well, as
are also some more orange and grape
fruit trees budded on Sicily Seeding
lemon stock, the year after and which
are consequently only three years old
from seed now, though he has allowed
but few fruit to mature on the latter
trees.
Mr.. Angevine has also increased his
stock of guava, lime and mulberry
trees to some extent and also set out
quite Il few more banana plants, all
of which are doing well. some of his
lime trees, five years old from seed,
being loaded with fruit. He also
raises more or less vegetables every
year and has fine pineapple planta-
ton i'm bearing about half mile or so
from his house, west of the railroad
When Mr.. Angevine came to this
country he knew how to raise oranges
and other citrus fruit about as well as
Florida crackers do to raise apples,
but. by perseverance, keeping his eyes
and ears open and using some good
plain common sense he has succeeded
in securing for himself a good place
in a good location and has it in such
a shape that hereafter it will pay its
own way and give him a good profit
besides
One thing noticeable i'm looking over
his place was the orange trees grow
ing in the damp hammock land. 1t
has been said that oranges would not
grow on such land. but they do here
though it may possibly be owing to
the fact that they were budded on
sour orange and lemon stocks. What
ever it is they are growing there and
apparently as well as on any other
kind of land. They have even been
twice nearly covered with salt water
for two hurricanes have visited this
section since Mr.. Angevine came there
TO live and both times the salt waters
of Lake Worth came up and over the
entire plantation, covering it to a
depth of , or 4 feet and entirely sur
rounding every tree and plant on the
place. In spite of all this the trees are
there and loaded with fruit-the rea-