40 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1889. 



He says : "If we estimate the crop of Florida at present at tliree 

 million boxes, it requires ten thousand car loads of 300 boxes 

 to the car to move the crop ; and calculating the average freight 

 at sixty-six cents per box, the crop pays the railways two million 

 for freight alone. The value of box stuff used would be $390,- 

 000; the nails $30,000: the paper for wraps $120,000 ; labor in 

 gathering and packing $600,000 ; thus making an output of one 

 million one hundred and forty thousand dollars for simply pre- 

 paring the fruit for market." 



Next comes the lemon crop, which is in its infancy, but which 

 bids fair to attain second place and rise to full grown commercial 

 importance. On this fruit I would refer you to a paper read 

 before this meeting by H. S. Kedney of Winter Park, to be 

 found in the "Florida Dispatch," the "Farmer's Fruit Grower," 

 Thursday, Feb, 28th, 1889, or the Transactions of the American 

 Pomological Society, when pul)lished. 



As we continued our search through the hall of the Florida 

 Horticultural Society, we found that there were many members 

 of the citrus family in the schedule. The display was enchant- 

 ing. The orange was shown in pyramids, triangles and all 

 manner of forms on the tables and walls of the hall, intermixed 

 with all the fruits and flowers and other productions of this trop- 

 ical peninsula of our great countr3\ First among these we will 

 mention the pomelo (or grape fruit), because it is so nearly iden- 

 tified with the orange. As an article of commerce it has 

 conquered a market of its own. It is very productive; the tree 

 looks very much like the orange ; in an orange grove it would 

 hardly be picked out from an orange tree by a causual observer. 

 It will sustain an enormous weight on its branches — from 

 ten to fifteen hundred pounds to the tree of twenty years 

 growth. 



Next comes the Guava : As a fruit for jelly it bids fair to fill 

 the place now occupied by an imported article. 



The Kaki, or Japan Persimmon is producing much interest with 

 fruit growers, but as it was not the season with it no fruit was 

 seen, but the trees were shown to us, with great hope for the 

 future. 



