FRUIT REPORTS. 
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Peaches of the Peento ancl Honey races take kindly to high, light, sandy 
soils, and are also grown with great success on the reclaimed lands of the 
Kissimmee valley. 
The Persian and Spanish races of peaches and oriental plums thrive on the 
high lands underlaid with red clay. In northwest Florida virgin soil alone 
should be planted to peaches and plums. Pears and grapes also thrive on 
these lands, as well as in the more sandy soils of northeast Florida. 
Bananas and figs prefer rich land with water not too far away, but not 
subject- to frequent overflow. They also thrive on oystershell lands, the 
former doing best if well sheltered while the latter stands free exposure 
to the winds. 
Good lands for orchards can be purchased anywhere from $5.00 to $100 
per acre, while particularly choice locations often carry the price up to 
from one to three hundred dollars. It is difficult to put any price on bear- 
ing groves, as the kind of fruit, quality of soil and convenience to market 
and transportation lines, as well as bearing capacity at time of sale, widen 
the range from a few hundred to, in some cases, as many thousand dollars 
per acre. Of late, because of the hardships resulting from the late unpre- 
cedented cold waves, some orange, lemon and grape fruit groves that before 
the freeze of February 1895 were paying from $500 to three and four times 
that price per acre each year, have been forced on the market at prices 
ranging as low as their former annual profits, while a short term of normal 
winters, or artificial protection will make them more profitable than ever, 
owing to the increased demand for our fruits and the curtailed production. 
Varieties: Oranges, Central and Southern Florida — Early, Parson Brown, 
Boone, Tangerona, Satsuma; Midseason, Homosassa, Centennial, Pineapple, 
Ruby, Jaffa, Dancy Tangerine', Late, Hart Late, Bessie, ^Pomelos',. (Grape 
Fruit) Central and Southern Florida— Aurantium, Hart, Seedless, Triumph, 
Walter. Lemons — Central and Southern Florida— Belair, Imperial {Messina), 
Villafrahca, Genoa, {Eureka,) Sicily (Sanford Thornless). Limes— Central 
and Southern Florida — Mexican. Persian. Tahiti. *Kumquats, (Kin Ivans), 
Central and Southern Florida — Marumi, Nagami. ^Peaches — Angel, Bidwell 
Early. Bidwell Late, Elberta, Florida Crawford, Honey, Imperial, Kerr, 
Jessie, Jewell, Maggie, Oviedo, Peento, Taber, Waldo. Pears — Kieffer, Le- 
Conte, Smith. Plums— Burbank, Berckmans, Excelsior, Wickson. Grapes — 
Cynthiana, Niagara, Norton, Flowers, Thomas, Sciippernong, James. Ivaki— 
Costata, Hiyakume, Okame, Taber No. 129, Tane-nashi, Tsuru, Yedo-ichi, 
Yemon. Figs, Northeast and Central Florida — Brunswick, Lemon. Mul- 
berries— Downing, Hicks, Stubbs. Strawberries — Neunan, Wilson. Nuts — 
Paper Shell Pecan. Tropical Fruits — Pineapples, Southern Florida — Abaclii 
(Abakka) Egyptian Queen, Cayenne Smooth. Porto Rico, Spanish, Red 
Ripley Queen. ^Bananas, Southern Florida— Baracoa (Red Jamaica), Cavend- 
ish, Golden, Hart Choice, Orinoco. Guavas, Central and Southern Florida- 
Common Guava (P. Guajava) many unnamed varieties, White Winter, Cat- 
tley, Chinese. ^Mangoes — Common (ordinary sort), Apricot, No. 11 (apple). 
Orange groves are generally cultivated in the latter part of winter and 
the ground kept clean and mellow until about the time the rains commence, 
in late May or early June, when they are planted to cow peas, velvet beans, 
or beggar weed (Desmodium tortuosum), or left to grow to crab grass. Some 
orange growers are cultivating vegetable crops and tobacco in their young 
groves, but as these require fertilizer formulas that are unsuited to the 
oranges, its advisability is, at least, questionable. Clean culture as practiced 
