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during this season on something over 
13,000 acres, in the vicinity of Mobile, 
Grand Bay and other places. 
Along the L, & N. Ry., toward Grand 
Bay, one sees creditable plantings here 
and there, ranging from a few acres to 
perhaps 20 or 30. At Grand Bay the 
acreage must be estimated by the hun¬ 
dred. These trees are all on C, T. roots 
and consist primarily of satsuma, with 
some pomelo- and sweet orange. The 
oldest plantings appear to be 4 or 5 years 
old. 
The fact that two nursery companies 
from Florida, the Griffing Brothers Com¬ 
pany, and Miller and Gossard, have each 
established nurseries in Alabama, pres¬ 
ages something of what the extent of cit- 
rus planting may become. A large part 
of the supply of trees now comes from 
Florida, Mississippi and Texas. 
Seedling trees, whether sweet or sour 
orange, the largest probably 10 to 15 
years old, were visible here and there in 
house yards. Some hardy hybrids were 
the only citrus trees seen at Auburn. 
In Alabama, the writer first stopped at 
Auburn, in order to consult with the Nur¬ 
sery Inspector and Plant Pathologist of 
the College and Experiment Station. Dr. 
Wolf, Plant Pathologist, had just re¬ 
turned from the Mobile section with defi¬ 
nite information as tc the extent and lo¬ 
calities infected. He reported the disease 
at Mobile, Grand Bay, Axis and Fair- 
hope. 
At Mobile and Grand Bay, everything 
that Dr. Wolf had reported was verified. 
At the shipping grounds of the Saibara 
Nurseries in Mobile, carloads of nursery 
stock, satsuma, pomelo and oranges were 
found. This stock was brought to Mo¬ 
bile from Alabama, Mississippi and Tex¬ 
as, to be sold and reshipped. Traces of 
citrus canker were noted in this stock, es¬ 
pecially on pomelo and satsuma. 
At Grand Bay, citrus canker was in 
evidence in every place visited, in the 
nurseries as well as in the groves. The 
most serious infection occurs in a small 
grove of 1000 grapefruit and satsuma 
trees, known as the Juvenal Grove. The 
oldest trees were planted about two years 
ago. The pomelo in this grove is most in¬ 
fected and badly crusted with canker on 
the younger growth. It appears tliat 
these trees are being retarded and forced 
to put out an excessive number of small 
branches which become diseased. Some 
treatment with Bordeaux mixture and de¬ 
foliation had been made, but apparently 
without much success. No fruit was on 
the trees (March 17th). It should be 
noted here that the illustration of dis¬ 
eased pomelo (grapefruit) in Bulletin 
122, Florida Experiment Station, came 
from this grove. 
MISSISSIPPI 
Judged by the number of small nurser¬ 
ies listed for Mississippi that offer citrus 
stock for sale, the extent of planting cit¬ 
rus in that state must be considerable. 
These are mainly along the line of the L. 
& N. Ry., at such places as Orange Grove, 
Pascagoula, Ocean Springs, Biloxi and 
Gulfport. An occasional planting may 
be visible from the railroad. At Biloxi, 
plantings to the extent of perhaps 60 
acres were visited, with presumably hun- 
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