24 
AMERICAN FRUIT AND VEGETABLE JOURNAL 
March 1900. 
Semi-Tropical. 
BIG GROWTH OF CALIFORNIA TREES 
The Sntler County Callft-rahi, Fanner 
►tales that "Orfli'itiMBtt* from other sec- 
tions of the state when i Biting here dnr- 
int the pnmlh? sen son nr,- astonished to 
tee the a mourn of ironrt nod email branches 
that are pruned from the trees, and can 
hardly realise the nxtenslre growth which 
tin fruit trees of this suction make. Some 
of our fruit grower* don't give this mat- 
ter enough attention and don't use tin 
pruning shears rnoogh In the orchards 
On peach nnd prune tree- is the growth 
more noticeable, especially In the young 
trees . 
"A* nn 1 11 n«l ration of this From n prune 
tree in the Rutherford orchard ou the 
Stewart tract, a shoot fully fourteen feet 
in length and from one and n half to two 
Inches in thickness, was cut off, nil of 
which was grown hi one season. Anri an- 
other Instance, mi the llarkey tract of a 
poach sprout eleven feet lung fa noted. The 
growers should prune vigorously and save 
uiueit eypen— In thinning when the fruit 
comes on. and also to preserve the tree." 
CALIFORNIA OLIVES. 
Professor V P. I lav ue, of the Stale Cul- 
ver-, ily of t'lHfoi'Difl. thus replies to H. E. 
Mldei, the owr.er of u fltltr-liere olive or 
chard in regard lo the buslucs*. 
"Answering yonr- of the 8 th Inst, fjan- 
inn.ii wuuld tulvl-e iii once hadtlitig Mon. 
xatilllo and NevjdUIi-, Blanca olive tree* 
will largi sized Mission olives. Be sure 
to select graft- or lltJiH from frees that 
prortm e large fruit, ir .von do not like the 
MB- Ion any larg. olive will do except 
Ni'vjiiiiilu Plinro. Mnnsiuilllo, Obltso, Pln- 
rf'ir (!• I Jias.se, Buhrn. Culitinbelin or Ued- 
dlng Plehollno. All toil the lad named art . 
subject lo tb« dty nil of the fruit. 
•Heuieinhei one thing The olive it 
yulre- as 111 mil can* and wafer, etc., a* any 
fruit tree, lr you are not prepared to give 
tin olive the same cure anil pruning, etc, 
that you give other trees, then heller let 
thim jmtJsI), or pin n f ot|je.r 1 roes. There 
Is money In olives if they are curwl for- 
none if til,., are nm Regular pruning Is 
e ** pn,, "l Irrigation I. inuigMarv In nil 
pans of the -tat,- Report will hr uni next 
month. The Nrvodniw anil Mnnr.amilo 
I 1 "/ 11 -' 1 " f '"' ‘•'"’fttog nr budding, 
bu. the fruit get- diseased. With a four 
,,J *“ 1,1 " hare l Hlurald graft or 
' * l, F 41,1 "''•an*. Prune low hut prime 
ciioh year, or you won't get regular crop*." 
FLORIDA FRUITS 
fa *'" r """" travel, than 
th ,1 f V" M *" w l ,,v "‘ "ttd over 
la' he freeze las, w„„„ r niljJe( , 
l h-nibi fruit grower.- forever The rvllow- 
Tlnie r t’" "'T' t»> »••' Florida 
IZ'.Lny' * nd 01tle ‘"* '***'* 
orange e rf , p 
ZL? tm> ’ '‘I eou. se, was produce 
PoSulo county, 150,000 boxes of oranges 
f 40.tM0 shipped from Arcadia station', and 
3,000 boxes of grape-fruit. 
Manatee county, the figures given were 
transcribed from the wharf hooka of rhe 
several shipping pnl«fw: oranges. 133,(100 
boxes; grape fruit, 0,03-1 
Lee cmiuty, about 40,000 boxes in all, of 
which 4,000 wen grapt -frith Tin* county 
being comparatively now and undeveloped, 
hut) hereto fora been devoted n)pio#t entire- 
ly to tin- rearing of cattle and lings. 
TTUUlwro.-Mr. C. R. Hawk, of Tampa, 
gives us the estimate of the oounly as 
wo.ooo lime., which aemna somewhat too 
large ft rg|>e fruit, very small output. 
Osceola cauiilj Oranges. 8,000 boxes; 
Ijtwrie, Col A. I'. Williams, C. W. Butler 
and J. C. Williams. Col. Jeuuess and C, XV, 
Sprlngstead. 
North from St. Petersburg, lb rough Lar- 
go, Clearwater. Sutherland, Ozona and 
Uunedln, one will onto the groves of .1 M. 
MrClnng, Mount .Somerville, Douglas*. 
Collins and Skluner; Ut Largo. P. J. Hayly 
;iud Mnrkley, .Lorn l»on and Whittle groves; 
further north, those of W. L. Johnson, G. 
S. Rogers, r»r M V. Allen. 
At ThoDOtosAssn ive note the grove of 
O. \V. Adams and many others. 
Down the Charlotte Harbor division, at 
Wiuebulu. Arcadia and south to rnnta 
Gordo are hundreds nf tu-rc* of fine hear- 
ing groves, At Amulln T. J. Watkins sold 
A Three- Year-Old Orange Tree 
tin Mr-. Sarah Beaton'* tract at Fair Oaks, 
Sacramento County, Cal 
grape fruit, 70u boxes. The same remarks 
applicable to L>-. are alau applicable to 
Inlet fine county. 
We hoped to receive detallcrl statements 
from on, or two other counties but none 
"cn furnished, hence we are compelled to 
estimate them: Pasco, Clinix, Orange Bre- 
uitd. at about 40,000 box.-- of on. mm, and 
4.00IJ boxes of grape fin 1 1 This bring* the 
tot.-il crop for I l,f -tan- up to 4 ( 53,460 
-;f ’ orange* ami 17,734 boxes of grape trult 
l * ro 1 u * l,t IJ " the trees from $1 Hr, p, 
>"' r *"'» r "' orange*, about $i Mi r„j 
tiingcrln. « a ml mandarins, and >5 to *7 for 
grape- fruit * ur 
When* th* Oiangr Crop Gtcw. 
I*iftw » in,.- from Ormond on the cast 
eottsi p. tarpon springs on the west -un-i 
let It i, "ud upward nml include Labe Weir 
-Siiutb of till* Dm- were produced ftfi |M . r 
et'ilt of l-’lonibl - O, anger till- J„ur. „ r „l 
hen "I*", t-irrlnu tin eliunenMl enl-.mli, 
m-Xt y,.T " l,rtr >' er °" "t 
A ,r| (’ Ht rough till* region will reveal 
even now, after the freeze of hist winter 
dmon n’lT r r th^ ,lour ‘ a, ‘'«S p "'> 
!V ’ 1 ,° r h, ‘ l “ ,h " t " r '' °ltl enough 
*. l, j,r '" lu< '“' 1 M,D,< ' fl ’"" this V.u.r 
* , f'‘" r ‘burg menthm b|, 0 ,i|.| 
mnde of the groves of W. ,S. and ! fj 
hi* orange crop for |10,000; Mra. Newton 
I'mker. fur ?fr,500; T. .7 lluckr-y, from a 
grov, or one atiil one-fourth acres near 
i -HI) , sold in 1808 |86S worth of oranges, 
and In i 1800 $1,000 worth. The grove or 
k* Tlioiiinn Iri fii.ifs noteworthy, 
A l Part Ogden, W. j. Williams hue a 
giovy iif vert line, largo anil prolific trees. 
Some Good Groves. 
‘•ii Orange river niv the prom 1*1 tig groves 
IL Mignm. O. Tuv.-tv, r w White. Bor. 
laud Bros., id. I. Wnrtmftn and rnunv oth- 
rT.'.i, N °"' "f 1 httmired lure grape- 
■ i u'i k! “ ,v, ' l nf - '• Mimnrlsln, and 
till larger lemon grove or Mimnt. ,- Lemon 
• ompan.v 
K'MI.'.U.U north, we Unit at Winter Hip 
ten nl.on a tbousnud Mere* of tn-e* awnotl 
• i cot, l rolled t,y reshlnnls. Hr K W III. 
S«V; MllJ «C«* nod I' D tin U- 
'".Itnvr ami a number of others i>, In 
" X'"*' : r,irr ? touch fruit this rear, 
,TnS r r: 7 Ult ,,V " a «n tlilld, an box 
rn t« -R t '" : ' r l,l ’ < nhould yield 
<r. boxes per a> re, others nearly ns 
0,1 '’"•I* hundr.de 
of prmnlNlnK grove* at Orange Bend. I a 
Wr l'niW Mt n* 8,, ' or *«°' "th.ndo. Win 
1 Horn, Oviedo, DoLand icia- 
sluiuie,,' and hundreds more dowu the met 
