48 EEPOET OP SEARCH FOE ENEMIES OF CITEUS WHITE FLY. 
This so-called Nagpur orange can be grown in other sections with 
equal success and is the orange largely produced about Poona in the 
Bombay Presidency. In fact, the writer was informed on good 
authority that the so-called Nagpur orange purchased in the Bombay 
markets does not come from the Nagpur region, but rather from 
Poona. 
At Gujranwala, in the Punjab, the Malta orange is the principal 
kind produced. The trees are budded and in general are in a well- 
kept and healthy condition. 
The normal time for gathering the fruit is November and December. 
In the more southern and warmer parts of the country the fruit is 
ready for market in November, but in the Punjab, as well as the outer 
Himalayan tracts, it is not picked until December. About Nagpur 
and Poona in the central Provinces two crops of fruit are gathered — 
one in November, the other in April. The first crop comes at the 
normal period of fruiting, while the second is produced artificially by 
the well-known method of removing the dirt from a part of the root 
system, the result of which is such a shock to the tree than an extra 
period of blossoming is brought about. The roots are exposed during 
the dry season in late spring. Irrigation is not practiced throughout 
this period, which is of about a month's duration. After exposure of 
the roots for about one month they are heavily irrigated, and in a 
short time after this treatment the blossoms are said to appear. The 
maturity of this crop in April, which is an off-season period for 
oranges, results in the fruit commanding a high price. 
In the plains the fruit is carried loose in ox carts to the market place 
or bazaar, while in the mountainous districts it is first carried in 
baskets by native bearers (PL XII, iig. 1) to the nearest bazaar (PI. 
XII, fig. 2), from which it is shipped to the railroad either by coun- 
try boat or ox cart. The price paid for fruit is variable. One grower 
at Nagpur stated that he received 1 J to 3 rupees (50 cents to $1) per 
hundred for fruit at his orchard, while in one of the obscure bazaars 
in the outer Himalayas, upon which the writer happened, the natives 
brought oranges in baskets on their backs from points many miles 
distant to sell at the rate of about 600 for 1 rupee (32 cents). 
Citrus trees in India are never pruned. Fertilization is practically 
unknown except for a few instances in which a little manure is added. 
The best orange groves are plowed frequently hi order to keep down 
the weeds. Irrigation is almost universally practiced in those places 
where much fruit is produced. Many horticulturists irrigate every 
week or 10 days during the warm, dry season. The common system 
in practice is by means of a single furrow along the base of each row 
of trees, so that the trees rise directly out of the furrow. Hence the 
bases of the trees are always standing in water while the irrigation is 
taking place. 
