those points of the compass are very likely to suffer annu 

 ally from that cause. However attractive and desirable it 

 may be to locate a grove on the border of some lake or 

 broad river, yet the disadvantages arising from exposure to 

 wind storms would more than counterbalance in the end. 



SOIL. 



The orange will grow and thrive on almost any soil 

 not too wet or too dry. But, like all other fruit trees, some 

 soils are better adapted to its cultivation than others. The 

 best soil seems to be a light sandy loam, naturally drained, 

 moderately elevated, not less than five feet and not more 

 than twenty feet above permanent water. As stated above, 

 orange trees will flourish and bear very well on low moist 

 soil, or even on a dry porous soil ; but the trees are more 

 subject to disease, and the yield of fruit is more likely to 

 vary in quality and quantity. Because the wild orange is 

 to be found mostly in low wet hammock, is no reason why 

 the sweet orange will do well there. The fact that the wild 

 orange is principally found on the borders of streams or on 

 the shores of lakes in damp localities is accounted for, we 

 think, by the fires which annually sweep over the dry land 

 and destroy small trees and shrubbery : whereas the fires 

 never devastate the moist hammock lands, and consequently 

 the trees are only to be found in such places. 



The soil on which hard timber has once grown is un- 

 doubtedly the best for the orange, as it contains more pot- 

 ash, and, in fact, all the inorganic elements which are 

 requisite. The next best is first-class pine land, but this 

 will require more fertilizers; and where high hard wood 

 hammock lands can be had they should be preferred, other 

 things being rqual. 



