CHAPTER Y 



AVHERE TO PLANT. 



And now, having brought up our young trees to a point 

 where they are ready for setting out, let us consider the best lo- 

 cation for their permanent home, where their life work may be 

 most perfectly accomplished. 



At the very outset, it becomes a mooted question whether to 

 locate the grove in pine land or hammock. 



Some growers advocate the one, some the other, but the fact 

 is, that as time rolls on and brings further experience in this new 

 calling of orange culture, the friends of the i^ine land groves are 

 becoming more and more numerous. 



Until very recently, there was one point on which both 

 cliques were in accord, and this was, that the orange tree would 

 not flourish on low lands, but that a high, dry location w^as im- 

 perative. 



But now, several v/ell known reliable growers have come to 

 the front, to prove that orange trees will do, have done, and are 

 doing well on low hammock, and on low flat woods ; that they 

 grow as thrifty, bear as profusely, and their fruit stands ship- 

 ping as well as though the trees were set on the high lands. 



One of these growers, Mr. E. H. Hart, of Federal Point, 

 Florida, gives it as his opinion, based on the experience of years, 

 that the crusade against low lands for the orange, is an arrant 

 humbug that ought to have been exploded long ago. It has been 

 kept up chiefly by those having high lands to sell, and by persons, 

 w'ho living upon land of a different character knew no better." 



The gentleman referred to has for twelve years successfully 

 raised and cultivated a large grove on just such land as has been 

 condemned heretofore as absolutely worthless for orange culture ; 

 flat pine woods, with clay and hard-pan only eighteen inches from 

 the surface. 



In very rainy weather the soil becomes so saturated with 



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