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St. Michael. — The 'paper rind', is a small, round orange, 

 very firm and juicy, and with very thin pale-colored skin. Rip- 

 ens late, keeps well on the tree, and does not drop when mature. 

 This orange is from the Azores. The tree is dwarf, and a pro- 

 lific bearer. The Azorean St. Michael is a larger tree, a rapid 

 •grower and very prolific also. The fruit ripens early, keeps well 

 on the tree, few seeded, larger than the 'paper rind' St. Michael, 

 solid, flattened in shape. The pulp is fine and melting and the 

 rind medium thin. 



The Washington Navel, the Mediterranean Sweet, the Tahiti 

 Seedling and the St. Michael are the four varieties which those of 

 widest experience recommend most highly lor extensive planting, 

 as sure to be standard varieties in the market for years to come. 

 Other varieties are either little known or more curious and orna- 

 mental than profitable. 



Among the numerous varieties which have been tried or are 

 "being tested, the following are some most worthy of notice or 

 most prominent. The descriptive notes of the above varieties 

 and the following are freely • compiled from various reliable 

 sources, as the writer is not personally familiar with them all. 



Wolfskill's Best. — Considered identical with the Tahiti 

 Seedling. 



Konah. — Fruit large, rough and thick skin. Tree very 

 thorny. Ripens early. Raised in California from seed grown in 

 Konah Island, and has few, if any, good qualities to recommend 

 it for cultivation. 



King. — A Chinese monstrosity; highly flavored, medium- 

 sized fruit, with rough rind. Ripens late. 



Oonshiu. — This Japanese dwarf is very hardy and ornamental, 

 producing small, flattened fruit, of exceedingly fine texture, sweet 

 and seedless, the rind easily detached. Wrongly called the Satsu- 

 ma orange. Not likely to prove of any great commercial value. 

 A prolific bearer, of a drooping, willowy habit, and very hardy, 

 as was proved in Florida in the great freeze of 1886. Probably 

 one of the most useful of the many varieties of Japanese oranges. 



Kumquat. — The very small, oblong or olive- shaped fruit of 

 this bushy tree is peculiar in being edible throughout — rind and 

 all. The rind is thick, yellow, smooth, and sweet-scented. The 

 pulp contains many seeds. Prolific, but more odd than useful, 

 as there is very little pulp about the fruit. Other ornamental va- 

 rieties are the following: 



Mandarin. — A very ornamental tree. Fruit red, flattened 

 at the ends. 



Pomelo or Grape Fruit. — Fruit very large, from two to 

 five pounds each in weight, pale yellow, resembling the citron. 

 Skin smooth^ juice sub-acid. A variety of shaddock. 



Shaddock. — Tree dwarfish, ornamental. Fruit very large, 



