ORANGE 



down. Late and early cultivation of an Orange grove 

 is usually discouraged as having a tendency to induce a 

 too luxuriant, sappy growth, which may be injured by 

 subsequent frosts. The cultivation is usually per- 

 formed with light plows or suitable cultivators. 



In three years after a grove is planted the trees 

 should begin to bear, increasing its products every year 



ORAXGE 



1159 



Oranges in Cai^ifornia (Fig. 1562). -In 17G9 the 

 Franciscans moved northward into what is now known 

 as California. In connection with the Missions which 

 they established they planted gardens and orchards, 

 and the first Orange trees planted were from seeds, 

 cuttings, or plants introduced by these worthy and 

 thrifty padres. 



The Missions were scattered over a wide range of 

 country, as far up as Sonoma, some fifty miles north 

 of San Francisco. The planting and care of orchards of 

 both citrous and deciduous fruits was encouraged, but 

 after the secularization of the Missions, in 1834, interest 

 waned and they were neglected, so that in 184b Fremont 

 wrote of them that "little rpmams of thr nrohird-, that 

 were kept in hi.;h cultn ti n t th A| , , » « » 

 Fertile \aUe\s are o\ t i i i i yme 



\ ards and oli\ e orcli u xt d " 



\t the Mission S ui i 



th( 



Ange- 



wa.s Sfa ^ears afteiwirds tlj it the shmI nt iii Acapulco 

 ()r,inge was planted at Sacramento, and four jears later 

 transplanted to Bidwell's Bar in Butte countj , in the 

 northern part of the state, and more than five hundred 

 mill s fi 111 till 1 ilit\ selected b> the Mission Fathers 



ton 



ifomia, from San Diego in the 



7. 



there if te 



ml lieeoming exceedingly profitable at 5 to b 

 \ e irs It h IS been found best here to head the Orange 

 tni I « mil I nine It onh for shape and Lomfoit Es. 

 CI ssi\i I 1UIUI1-: Is never followed 



\\ hfii npe tlie Oranges are gathered In hand from 

 Udders, assoittd and packed m bo\i s ,i 1 irn N ind 

 shipped to Isew Orleans Before th lit i\ si\e 

 cold the crop of the state was estim it 1 i mi iiiii) 

 boxes It was quite small last } ear Ts th i suit t this 

 freeze 



\ fertilizer containing 50 pounds nitrOt^tn ">() pounds 

 piitish md 2) pounds phosphoric acid per acre is the 

 one usualh it^i ommended in this state It is usually 

 ipplK d in Man h or April The following varieties have 

 been grown in this state, which, for convenience, are 

 here divided into three classes first, earl\ ripening 

 second, medium, third, late. 



Of the first rliss thrrc nir numrious creoh 

 P t h \ 1 n' 1 F' „ ? Prizll- 



l??4^J 



^fJi 



nin_'hani Dulcissmi i 1 \ misite Jaffa, 

 Toppi Magnum Bonum, Maiorca, Mad 

 ime s ^ inous, varieties of Navel Orange, 

 ^Id^InI 'st Mirh-iel Portugal, Plata, 

 Queen, Rul s. , * st ,r Calw, Stark 

 Needless s, ^ | ,i,,t, ^nd Trav- 



eler, of th 11,1 T.ingerine, 



of the dul I 1 lid class— late 



maturin,' \ 1 1 1 1 - i ii are unpop 

 ular here on u i ount ut danger of frost 

 during winter, are Acis, Beach Nos 4 

 and 5, Dorr, DuRoi, Higley Late, Lamb 

 Summer, Long, Maltese Oval, Mediterra - -= _ 



nean Sweet, Mott, Pineapple, Rio, Rivers s.^." ^ .. 

 Late, Simms Summer, Hait Tardif, and 

 White, of the sweet, and King, of the 

 dulcis t>-pe. 



The Kumquat is grown both in the round and the ob- 

 long. A dozen or more varieties of the pomelo are also 

 grown, while a few varieties of the sour Orange and shad- 

 dock are occasionally to be found. ^ g Stubbs 



Cahiornia Orange grove 



ther 



age in Orange tree) 



or 3,500,000 trees, 



ime better understood, until in 1899 

 the county assessors showed an acre- 

 lone, not including lemons, of 35,000, 

 early half of which were in bearing. 



