CULTURE OF THE ORANGE. 



LOCATION OF GROVE. 



The most important consideration when starting an 

 orange grove, is location. This should be near some sure 

 and permanent line of transportation, or in the immediate 

 vicinity of some proposed line which will be sure to be 

 established in the near future. There are at present many 

 fine bearing groves scattered over the State, from ten to 

 thirty miles from an outlet; and hauling boxes of oranges 

 that far by wagon is attended with a good deal of expense 

 and often loss of much of the fruit by bruising, which unfits 

 it for transportation to distant markets. In regard to lati- 

 tude and longitude, we believe oranges can be successfully 

 grown, in good locations, anywhere south of the Georgia 

 line. There are many small groves of old trees in the 

 vicinity of Jacksonville, in latitude 30 20', also on Amelia 

 Island, which have borne fairly for the last forty years. 

 Some localities are more exempt from frost than others, it 



