420 FRUIT CULTURE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



DOMINICA. 



REPORT BY CONSULAR AOEUT STEDMAN. 



The oranges exported from tbis island are of the common sweet 

 variety. The trees are not cultivated, but grow promiscuously through- 

 out the island, at altitudes varying from 50 to 1,600 feet, and are most 

 plentiful on the leeward side. The fruit begins to ripen early in Septem- 

 ber, and the crop continues until the end of November— small quantities 

 can be had in December and January. 



The Seville sweet orange (which is used principally iu making mar- 

 malade) ; the Taugarine and Portugal oranges are also grown to a small 

 extent, but hav^not been exijorted. 



There are a few lemon trees in the island, mostly of a poor descrip- 

 tion, but the lime tree is cultivated to a considerable extent and iu- 

 creasing annually. A small quantity of the fresh fruit is exported, but 

 the great bulk of the crop is compressed and the juice exported in a 

 raw and concentrated form, the latter principally to the United States 



The trees are grown at various heights, in some places as high as 

 1,500 feet. The trees are planted at distances of from 14 to 18 feet 

 apart, according to the richness of the soil, and are propagated from 

 seed. The picking begins in July and extends to November, the height 

 of crop being in September. The juice is extracted by passing the. 

 fruit through a mill and afterwards concentrating in copper taches. 



Wm. Stedman, 



Consular Agent. 



United States Consular Agency, 



Roseau, Bominica, March 4, 1890. 



JAMAICA. 



REPORT BY CO>rSUL HOSEINSON, OF EIXiisTOX. 

 (Republislicd from Consular Reports No. ) 1^.) 



In reference to the fruit circular, 1 forwarded by last mail a press 

 copy of Dr. ISTeesh's lecture on orange cultivation. The lecture has 

 since been published in one of the city newnpii])ers, and combines a 

 scientific treatment of the subject witli a long practical experience of 

 the writer. Oranges have never been reguhirly planted out iu this 

 island as they are in Florida, all the orange trees having been sell'- 

 sown, mainly by the seeds being carried by birds into the brush, and 

 when the plant lias i;Town up the thickets liave boon cleared away 

 leaving the young orange trees standing in irreguhu- groups. No pains 

 is ever tiiken to improve the variety, and no particular attention of any 

 kind is gi\ en to the trees, the cleared land being tlic main considera- 



