Treatise and Hand-book of Orange Culture in Florida, Louisiana and California

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E.R. Pelton & Company, 1884 - 184 páginas
 

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Página 87 - I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away ; and every branch that beareth fruit, he pruneth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Página 20 - Fifth year, 200 to the tree — 200,000 oranges at twenty dollars per thousand 4000 " If these prices are maintained the owner has his investment all back again at the end of five years, and is ready to ship oranges in large quantities every year thereafter. " All persons planting orange orchards do not do as well as this, and some do better. Those figures represent what can be done with good judgment and thorough work. If a man thinks to save by getting cheap and incompetent work, he may succeed...
Página 168 - There is a species of cedar called cedre maritime, whose plant is small but productive, giving very fine fruits, as large as a man's head. Some call them citrons, or pommes citrons. Thes<e fruits are formed of a triple substance, and have three different tastes. The first is warm, the second is temperate, the last is cold. Some say that this is the fruit of which God commanded in Leviticus: ' Take you the first day of the year the fruit of the finest tree.
Página 105 - Kid Glove, Tomato Orange. — Size medium ; much flattened ; color dark orange ; broad, irregular cavity, with stem obliquely inserted and surrounded by a knobbed eminence ; eye set in a large depression one inch wide and five-sixteenths deep; longitudinal diameter two and a half inches; transverse diameter three inches; skin irregularly ribbed or lobed; color of flesh very dark orange; pulp adhering to skin by a few filaments; sections of pulp easily separated; pulp coarse; juice sweet and highy...
Página 20 - There will be some receipts. If good budded trees are planted, the third year will give a little fruit, the fourth year still more, and at the end of the fifth year there will be quite a fine crop. In order to be safe in these calculations we will place the yield and prices at the lowest possible estimate : ' • Third year crop, scattering oranges — a few hundred or thousand — not counted. Fourth year, an average of fifty oranges to the tree — 50,000 oranges at twenty dollars per thousand...
Página 139 - Hot weather is favorable to the development of the insect, but wet weather increases the show of rust. Sulphate of lime I have found to be a specific for the rust-insect. Two applications should be made during the year, one in the spring before the blooming of the trees, the other during the month of June. The sulphate of lime or land plaster should be applied while the tree is wet, at the rate of from one to two quarts to the tree. The whole of the trunk, branches, and foliage should be well dusted....
Página 101 - ETC. 116. Little need be said here on this head, further than that there are but four distinct species in the family, the innumerable names quoted in catalogues being of local origin. Gallesio recognizes but four distinct species in the family : the orange (sweet), the bigarade (sour orange), the citron, and the lemon. He justly remarks as to the varieties, — The Citrus is a genus whose species are greatly disposed to blend together, and whose flower shows great facility for receiving extraordinary...
Página 137 - ... in clinging to the orange ; just above it protrude two caudal filaments ; head almost hidden in thorax ; four legs rather short with one claw, a long hair springing from the knee.
Página 89 - When the knife is used it is better to cut up than down, as the downward cut is apt to split the wood and peel off the bark. Do the principal pruning in the spring. By all means avoid fall or winter pruning, as it is apt to start new wood at a time when it is most exposed to damage from frost. Cut off all dead wood, and up to, or a little into, the living wood. Thereby the wound heals more readily. As a general rule cut off all- diseased branches, espe,cially if they have become so far diseased as...
Página 167 - Provencals transported to Palermo, St. Remo and Hyeres trees of the citrus family. Jacques de Vitry, a historian of the thirteenth century who accompanied the Crusaders to Palestine, thus quaintly describes the newly found fruits: " Besides many trees cultivated in Italy, Genoa, France and other parts of Europe, we find here (in Palestine) species peculiar to the country, and of which some are sterile and others bear fruit. Here are trees bearing very beautiful apples — the color of citron —...

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