802 THE AMERICAN FARMER. 



BUENA YISTA. Size medium, color dark crimson, color of flesh very dark, pulp coarse but 

 melting; juice sub-acid, sprightly, with vinous flavor; quality good. Doubtless new and 

 improved varieties of the orange will be introduced from time to time, the same as with other 

 fruits, as its cultivation is becoming rapidly extended, and the interest in it is constantly 

 increasing in those sections best adaped to its growth. 



HOW to Plant an Orange Grove. The following directions for planting an orange 

 grove, its cultivation, etc., are given by Mr. T. &quot;W. Moore, of Florida, who has been engaged 

 in successful orange culture for many years, and to whom previous reference has been made. 

 The several methods are, first, the budding of the wild sour trees without moving them; 2d, 

 budding them first and planting afterwards in some suitable location; 3d, planting the sour 

 stumps and budding afterwards; 4th, growing the trees from sweet seed without budding; 

 5th; planting the sweet seedling and budding either before or after removal from nursery; 

 and 7th, a grove of sweet seedlings. 



Each of these plans has some advantages over the others. They all have advocates; but 

 which of all has the greatest number of advantages is questionable. I have tried them all, 

 but after stating the advantages of each, must leave to the grower to select for himself as 

 circumstances and inclination may control. If one is impatient for return, let him choose the 

 sour grove, if he can find it, and bud the trees where they stand. &quot;With proper management 

 he may begin to gather in two years. If he is still impatient, but cannot find a sour grove, 

 let him buy the sour stumps, plant them in some suitable location, and he may begin to gather 

 fruit in three years from planting. But if he can wait awhile longer for fruit with the hope 

 of getting a longer lived tree and more abundant yield let him plant younger trees, either 

 seedlings or budded stock. If he wishes an early bearer and comparatively smaller tree, he 

 can select the sour seedling budded. If a larger but later bearer, he can select the sweet 

 seedling budded. If he wishes an abundant yield and the largest trees, and can wait a longer 

 time, the sweet seedling, unbudded, will suit. &quot;With good treatment such trees will begin to 

 yield in eight years, and, after a longer time, in ninety -nine cases out of a hundred, give him 

 a fair quality of fruit; but perhaps he will have as many varieties or sub-varieties as trees in 

 his grove. The sour stock for a few years grows more rapidly, but will finally make a 

 smaller tree than the sweet. The best quality of fruit can be insured only by budding from 

 the best varieties. 



Special reference should be had to drainage, soil, water protection, forest protection, 

 proximity to fertilizers, and facilities for transportation. The soil for a grove should be thor 

 oughly drained, either naturally or artificially. Not only should the surface water be carried 

 off, but the drainage should be so deep as to allow roots, and especially the tap root, to pene. 

 trate for several feet. Some think that less than ten feet is not sufficient. But there are in 

 this State groves of fine old trees and good bearers with considerable less than ten feet of 

 drained soil. The sour stock will flourish on a much wetter soil than the sweet. And it 

 may be that these groves that have long done well in such localities are sour stocks budded. 

 &quot;Where choice of location can be made, and especially if sweet stocks are to be planted, select 

 a soil well drained by nature. Art and labor can accomplish a great deal, but it costs some* 

 thing, and the effect is not so permanent as when nature has done the work. If no positive 

 evil arise from a wet subsoil in close proximity to the surface, still there are reasons why a 

 deep, dry, or moist soil is better. &quot;While it is true that the principal feeders of the orange 

 He near the surface, yet whoever will take the pains to examine the roots of an old orange 

 tree grown in a deep and well-drained subsoil will find that these roots have penetrated for 

 many feet deep into the earth, and in all directions from the tree. Now if trees have been 

 set twenty feet apart in the grove, and the soil is drained but one foot deep, the roots of 

 each tree have but four hundred cubic feet of soil in which to feed. But if the soil has been 

 drained to the depth of ten feet, then the feeding ground for the roots has been increased 



