268 Appendix. 



" The export of oranges," the article goes on to say, " is 

 increasing by rapid strides, as will be seen from the above. 

 The demand for orange plants is in excess of all other plants 

 from the Public Garden, and this would indicate that the 

 regular cultivation of the orange tree is being taken up with 

 spirit and energy." 



No. 24. 



In an article in Chambers s Journal for December, 1883, 

 p. 717, on " Orange Farming," the following occurs : 



" Making every allowance for the circumstance that nine 

 or ten years must elapse between the periods of sowing 

 orange seeds and gathering the crop, should grafting or 

 budding not be resorted to, it will probably be found that, 

 among the long catalogue of cultivated fruits, the orange 

 tribe afford the most satisfactory financial results. 



" Hitherto, it appears, only capitalists embarked in orange 

 and lemon growing, on account of the time the tree requires 

 to come into full bearing. But a person with a trade or pro- 

 fession, if he possesses a bit of land, with good soil, in the 

 right climate, can do worse than invest his savings in sowing 

 orange and lemon, &c. seeds of the proper kind, and raising 

 plants in nurseries, and plant out by degrees, until his land 

 is covered with the most valuable kinds of citrus. It is 

 capital well invested, which will last for generations with 

 ordinary care. Every part of the tree is valuable." 



This article goes on to say that u the members of the 

 orange family number fully 200 varieties, and although 

 originally hailing from the tropical banks of an Indian river,* 

 these have now spread into most lands, becoming rapidly 

 acclimatized, or modified, wherever they have been cultivated, 

 under even the most moderately favourable circumstances. 

 Where, on the other hand, individuals of the family, such as 

 the lime in the West Indian island of Monserrat, have been 

 introduced into a specially congenial climate and soil, they 



* Which kind of oranges, I would ask, hailed from the banks of an 

 Indian river ? 



