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THE CANADIAN H0KTICULTUKI8T. 



MR. ROUNDTREE'S PLANTATION. 



and only grown as an ornamental tree. 

 The fruit of the orange is ripe in No- 

 vember and December, when it is 

 gathered and packed as fast as the de- 

 mand may require, usually completing 

 the harvest in about a month. The 

 first six months of the year are devoted 

 to market gai-dening. The cabbage, 

 tomato and cucumber ])lants are started 

 under glass, and as the weather will 

 permit, and the growth of the plants 

 may require, they are trans])lanted into 

 the o})en gi'ound. The business of 

 gathering, packing and marketing is 

 carried on systematically with about 

 twenty -five colonjd hands. By the 1st 

 of July the ground crops are gathereit 

 and shipped, and the whole place sowed 

 with cow peas to be turned under 

 ground as a fertilizir. Mr. Roundtree 

 said that from the first of July till first 

 September, " we all take a holiday, 

 going up and down the country hunt- 

 ing up recreation according to our 

 several tastes." By the first of Sep- 

 tember the business of turning under 



the cow })eas begins and the ground is 

 got in readiness for the winter crops. 

 The accompanying engj-aving which 

 we have copied from a picture we found, 

 renders some idea of the appearance of 

 Mr. Roundtree's place in the month of 

 December, when the work of orange 

 gathering is going on. The novelty of 

 such operations being conducted at such 

 a time is not without its charm to us 

 who at that season are battling with 

 frost and snow, amid leafeless trees, 

 whose fruits have long since been 

 gathered. 



Dried Apples. — Last year over three 

 milliim pounds of drieii apples- were 

 exported from the United States, to the 

 markets of China, India, Egypt, Southern 

 Africa, Australia, and also to England and 

 Scotland. Four-fifths of this amount was 

 exported from the port of New York. The 

 exporters gather them up from all portions 

 of the country, the best, it is said, coming 

 from North Carolina. The cores and 

 parings are shipped to France, where they 

 are used in changing the flavors of various 

 brands of wine. 



