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and finds your trees prepared to With
stand such weather, the degree Of
!, cold may go as low as IL or IS de.
grees Fahrenheit above zero and not
} seriously injure your trees, while if
ia cold spell should catch your trees
in growing state. full of sap any dc
!, gree of cold under &c degrees Fahren.
! heit above zero may do more INJURY
to your trees than IS degrees as
above stated. And sometimes when
a moderate cold spell comes in Feb,
ruary or in March, and finds your
trees in a growing state, and have
probably put forth a luxuriant growth
and may be in bloom, degree Of
cold only as low as 30 degrees may
do your trees and the coming crop
of fruit much injury
Now, as to the fruit Most varie
ties of the grange will not stand de
gree Of cold below "a, or at most %
degrees without being injured more
or less, so that your fruit will not
keep and will drop from the tree, OF,
in a short while will get dry and
pithy at the stem end. The more
open or porous the peel of the fruit
} the less degree of cold it will stand.
Such varieties Ct fruit ~ The pine.
apple orange, tardlf1, Valencia late,
; and such close grain or tough p9ui or.
J, ange will stand more cold than poI-
Gus, open-grained fruit. Such varie.
ties Of fruit as above stated will also
ship or carry to market better than
the porous fruit.
have often stated that tie real
: pineapple orange will ship to the
most distant market, almost like
nuts.
Oranges grown on pine land will
generally ship better than the same
variety if grown on hammock land,
and / think the reason for this is
that the pine land fruit has less wa
ter in the peel The cold, freezing
} spells Of weather in Florida come
, from the west and northwest, and
generally last about three days; the
second day being the coolest, the
wind goes from the east to the south
= west and On TO the north. When the
wind passes into any point of the
, compass east of north the danger
, Of that spell Of weather is past. How
often have I remained up all night
: watching the thermometer and the
= weather vane, and how relieved ]
} would feel when the vane pointed
east of north for then / knew the
} wind was coming from over the warm
, waters Of the gulf stream, and the
danger was over; and ! said that f
ever ] made another grove in Florida
=. would certainly try and profit by
/ my experience and get a location that
| would be immune from these freez-
: ing spells of weather. You may pay
more for such locations at the begin
J, advise prospective orange grower
to not let anyone deceive him and
: persuade him to invest in land for his
, grove which has soil not suitable
for growing the orange or that is a
cold~locatiOn, where you are liable to
be frozen out, even once in a while.
While much of the orange growing
belt of Florida is more or less liable
to these spells of cold weather, there
are many locations that are immune,
! where one can safely invest his mon
ey and reap rich reward. 1t will
pay prospective grower to investi-
gate before he parts with his money
When / was boy all sweet oranges
were called China" oranges as a dis
!, tinction from the sour and bitter
sweet fruit, but there have been a
great many varieties developed and
introduced since l was boy, and the
prospective grower should pay par,
ticular attention to selecting the va
rieties he or she will propagate. Some
varieties will bring better prices in
} the markets, and some will ship or
carry better than others. I do not
contend that since 1 quit the bus
mess new varieties may have
!, been developed that have excellent
qualities.
: I will only state the varieties 1
would plant were I going to put out
another grove. For my chief winter
shipping crop I would plant the pine
!; apple orange, which, taken all in all,
: consider the best orange grown in