5© Azotes and Gleanings. 



The Volusia Orange. — Mr. Editor : It affords me much pleasure to send 

 you, by mail, to-daj', two specimens of the Volusia Orange. It was my intention 

 to have mailed you a bunch containing four good-sized oranges ; but when pre- 

 paring them to send, I found that they weighed four pounds without the wrap- 

 pings or packings. So I could not send by mail. I had serious thoughts of 

 sending them by express ; but I knew that to send them by that channel was a 

 very uncertain thing, as it often happens that the packages from here to New 

 York and Boston are not deHvered until after several months. I hope these two 

 specimens will reach you in good order, and that you may enjoy their fine flavor 

 and excellence. These oranges are a second crop from the tree that produced 

 the oranges I sent to you in the winter. The first crop set its fruit in March, 

 1869, and produced ripened fruit in October, 1869. In July, 1869, the tree com- 

 menced blossoming again, and produced a little over half a crop of new oranges. 

 As will be seen by these specimens sent, the fruit is not fully ripe now, yet 

 you will find these oranges to be exquisite in flavor. It is a very unusual thing 

 for an orange tree to produce two crops of fruit in one year. In my experi- 

 ence of Florida life, which extends over eleven years, I never knew such a thing 

 as two crops of oranges from one tree, in a year, before. 



I send you these oranges, not as picked speci7ne»s, but as a curiosity. The 

 bunch I was going to send had larger oranges on it than these two. Could I 

 have picked single specimens, I could have sent you some fully half as large 

 again. You will concede, however, that these I send are not small oranges. 

 One of them is somewhat flattened : this came from a bunch, and is caused by 

 the pressure of the contiguous orange. 



Colonel D. Redmond, of the " South Land," — New Orleans, — agrees with 

 me that this is a new variety, and informs me that I can see other new varieties 

 at several places he mentioned. H. G. L. 



Volusia, Florida, June 4, 1870. 



[The oranges came to hand in excellent order, and were of fine quality and 

 size, measuring nearly four inches in diameter. We are much obliged to our 

 correspondent for affording us another opportunity to taste this fine new variety. 

 -Ed.] 



The Transactions of the Indiana State Horticultural Society 

 have come to us in a neatly bound volume, giving the proceedings at the Ninth 

 Annual Session, held at Indianapolis, January 4, 5, and 6, 1870, reports to the 

 State society of various local societies, and a tabular list of fruits recommended, 

 which, in the compass of half a dozen pages, contains an immense amount of in- 

 formation as to the hardiness, habit of growth, season, quality, and other charac- 

 teristics of a great number of varieties of fruit. The appendix contains prize 

 essays on the Apple, Pear, Grapes, and Small Fruits, and is concluded by 

 gleanings and extracts from various sources, among which is the greater part of 

 Mr. Saunders's article on Fall and Spring Planting, from the January (1869) num- 

 ber of this Journal, and the premium list for the next State fair. We are indebted 

 for it to W. H. Ragan, corresponding secretary. 



