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Other Sub varieties. 



There are many other oranges that have real merit and would be 

 worthy of consideration in planting, except that the ones mentioned 

 above are so much superior. 



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FIG. 62. Paper rind St. Michael. 

 (After Lelong.) 



Seedlings. 



These secured without the labor of budding are of course cheaper, 

 but they are correspondingly less valuable. The fruit is small, the 

 trees very tall, so that picking is expensive, and yet these seedling 

 orchards are often very profitable. Usually, however, they are budded 

 over to more desirable kinds, but many possessors of such orchards 

 think them too profitable to make this wise. Seedling trees often bear 

 enormous crops. 



