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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
sound it may be, after there has been a 
freeze in the state. 
We need to give more attention to 
hardy varieties. Trifoliata stock is not a 
success in light soils so its cold resist¬ 
ant qualities are not always available. 
But there is a variety of orange that is 
cold resistant and thrifty above the or¬ 
dinary. This is the Jaffa. Its heavy, 
thick, vigorous foliage protects its 
branches admirably, it bears, even while 
young, good crops of heavy, fine flavor¬ 
ed fruit that is sweet early in the fall 
and will hang on until late in the spring. 
The Jaffa has not had the recognition 
of its value to which it is entitled. It is 
unfortunate that so many of the trees 
planteli years ago are of no particular 
variety but just orange, like the man’s 
hound that was mostly 'Just dog.” 
Such trees not infrequently are charac¬ 
terized by second grade fruit and not 
much of that. 
In uniformity of quality of product 
California is away ahead of vis despite 
the fact that a good Florida orange is 
without a peer, here or abroad. In 
California the growers are effectively 
organized, and the various citrus un¬ 
ions exercise a strict supervision over 
the fruit marketed. Fruit in any way 
inferior is not shipped. We need to 
campaign toward this end and a higher 
sense of honor among shippers. There 
is too much green and frosted fruit 
shipped from Florida. The state is 
getting the name of shipping inferior 
oranges. 
Have any members had experience 
with what has been called tuberose 
blooming ? Sometimes trees young or 
old will put on, on a few branches, close 
packed bloom enough to cover the 
whole tree if properly distributed. 
Such bloom always sheds off leaving 
the tree bare of oranges. It is a serious 
matter for trees to so expend their en¬ 
ergy to no purpose. What is the cause 
of this and what can we do to make a 
tree properly distribute its bloom? 
As a mere curiosity I am going to 
place on the table a freak orange of some 
good qualities. It was discovered 
among some tardiff trees. While it has 
the navel feature it is quite seedy. But 
the skin is thin and silky and the flavor 
of the pulp really excellent. In form it 
is very flat so that the secondary or¬ 
ange within extends well above the me¬ 
dian line. This report is well estab¬ 
lished as there are a number of trees 
which bear this kind and no other. If 
the seeds could be educated out of it we 
would have a new navel of superior 
quality. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Penny—I would like to ask Mr. 
Wakelin more about that bloom he 
spoke of. We had last year on our 
tangerine trees a good deal of bloom 
that appeared to be very short—the 
bloom buds. Is that the way yours were? 
Mr. Wakelin—No, I never knew 
tangerine trees to do that. The bloom 
has been distributed over them. Other 
trees- would put on sometimes fifty 
blooms all on the terminal shoots, but 
they would not amount to anything 
because they all fell off. For all the 
good such blooming does us, the tree 
might just as well be dead. The blooms 
this spring resembled bridal wreath 
more than an orange tree. There was 
an exceedingly heavy bloom. 
Mr. Thornton—I have noticed that 
the trees are full of bloom—almost 
like the bridal wreath as Mr. Wakelin 
says, and this after the dry weath- 
