OP THR 



UNIVERSITY 



THE ORANGE 



CHAPTER I. 



BEST VARIETIES TO PLANT. 



CLASS A. 



The varieties classified under this head are of foreign origin; 

 their prominence is about in the order named. 



They are recommended as marketable and profitable varie- 

 ties to grow. 



WASHINGTON NAVEL. (Bahia, Riverside Navel.) 



This orange is the most popular of all foreign varieties 

 grown in this State. Fruit large, solid, and heavy (Plate i); 

 skin, smooth, and of a very fine texture; very juicy; high fla- 

 vored with melting pulp; is nearly seedless, only in excep- 

 tional cases are seed found ; tree is a good and prolific bearer, 

 medium thorny, a rapid grower, although it does not attain a 

 very large size; bears when very young, commencing to bear 

 as early as one year old from the bud. 



This variety was imported from Bahia, Brazil, in 1870, by 



