l66 ORANGE CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA. 



not take the lead in any place in our country. The same rule 

 may prove true in orange culture. We may yet get a variety, 

 if we have it not already, that will take a decided lead. 



This question was propounded to Mr. Rose : 



If you were putting out an orchard now, would you plant the 

 budded tree? 



He did not know. He was opposed to budding, as it stunted 

 the tree and caused it to bear early, and, as he thought, making 

 it short lived. The orange reproduced itself from the seed, thus 

 differing from peach and apple. He had shipped his fruit to 

 New York this year, and was informed, when returns were made, 

 that h : s oranges were the best to be had in that market. He 

 preferred the seedlings, even though he had to wait longer for 

 the fruit." 



Dr. Congar stated that the Florida seedling was the best or- 

 ange he found in that State. In Nicaragua he ate a seedling 

 orange which was of a grass-green color when ripe. He be- 

 lieved the color was owing to the locality. He was budding 

 orange on lemon and lime, but expected to find a hybrid, instead 

 of either lemon, lime or orange. The Los Angeles seedling 

 orange is being shipped to Salt Lake City, and it is there pro- 

 nounced the best orange in that market. 



Mr. Berry believed that the seedling orange's coming into 

 bearing late is owing only to poor cultivation. 



Mr. Garey was not opposed to the Los Angeles seedling or- 

 anges, but he favored budding to the best varieties of seedlings 

 as well as imported varieties, so that the fruit may be universally 

 good. 



Captain C. E. Thorn thought the absence of thorns on the 

 orange a strong argument in favor of budding, and that a large 

 percentage of the fruit of seedling trees must be lost from being 

 punctured by thorns. 



At the July session of the Society, Will it pay to bud the 

 orange, and will it pay to bud bearing trees? were subjects dis- 

 cussed. 



Mr. Rose said, in substance : " There are many who think 

 grafting or budding is in some way an improvement in the fruit. 

 This, of course, is not so. It is only a means by which some 



