52 FLORIDA FRUITS ORANGES. 



CHAPTER V. 



WHERE TO PLANT. 



And now, having brought up our young trees to a point 

 where they are ready for setting out, let us consider the 

 best location for their permanent home, where their life 

 work may be most perfectly accomplished. 



At the very outset it becomes a mooted question whether 

 to locate the grove in pine land or hammock. Some grow- 

 ers advocate the one, some the other ; but the fact is, that 

 as time rolls on and brings further experience in this new 

 calling of orange culture, the friends of the pine land 

 groves are becoming more and more numerous. 



Until very recently there was one point on which both 

 cliques were in accord, and this was that the orange tree 

 would not flourish on low lands, but that a high, dry loca- 

 tion was imperative. But now several well-known reliable 

 growers have come to the front to prove that orange trees 

 will do, have done, and are doing well on low hammock 

 and on low flat woods; that they grow as thrifty, bear as 

 profusely, and their fruit stands shipping as well as though 

 the trees were set on the high lands. 



One of these growers, Mr. E. H. Hart, of Federal 

 Point, Florida, gives it as his opinion, based on the expe- 

 rience of many years, that " the crusade against low lands 

 for the orange is an arrant humbug that ought to have been 

 exploded long ago. It has been kept up chiefly by those 

 having high lands to sell, and by persons who, living upon 

 land of a different character, knew no better." The gen- 

 tleman referred to has for fourteen years successfully raised 

 and cultivated a large grove on just such land as has been 

 condemned heretofore as absolutely worthless for orange 



