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dreds of acres lying farther out. The 
largest planting visited was at Wiggins, 
30 miles north of Gulfport, where thous¬ 
ands of acres of cut-over pine land are 
being put on the market; there is already 
a new planting of something like 60 
acres and a nursery here. The plantings 
in Mississippi are on C. T. roots and con¬ 
sist mainly of satsuma, with some pomelo 
and sweet orange. A 40-acre grove near 
Biloxi had many satsuma trees over 10 
years old. The oldest trees at Wiggins 
were planted three years ago. 
The writer searched for citrus canker 
only at Biloxi and Wiggins and found it 
only at the latter place. The disease is 
well established there and only the most 
drastic measures will ever succeed in 
eradicating it. The degree of infection of 
different varieties at Wiggins is as fol¬ 
lows : 
Pomelo—leaves, twigs, fruit; 
C. T.—Twigs, no leaves or fruit pres¬ 
ent ; 
Navel—leaves, twigs, no fruit noted; 
Med. Sweet—noted on leaves only; 
Parson Brown—leaves, fruit, twigs; 
Satsuma—leaves, rarely on wood. 
When fruit is mentioned in the previ¬ 
ous list information was furnished by the 
manager and foreman. The manager 
further informed me that he first noticed 
the disease in 1911 on C. T. seedlings 
from Japan. 
LOUISIANA 
Near New Orleans, on the south shore 
of Lake Pontchartrain, about 7,000 acres 
of land have been reclaimed by diking. 
Two large pumping stations have been 
erected to pump off the surplus water. 
The Lake Shore Land Company, through 
Symmes, Means, and Chandler, agricul¬ 
tural engineers, is carrying on these 
operations, and plans to set out a large 
acreage of citrus on trifoliata roots. Thir¬ 
ty thousand budded trees had just been 
planted, besides a nursery of 250,000 tri¬ 
foliata seedlings, obtained from Arcadia, 
Texas. It is planned to sell this land and 
plantings in small tracts to settlers. 
Below New Orleans, on the Mississippi 
River, considerable citrus has been 
planted. Trees 1 to 14 or 15 years old 
were seen at Happy Jack. At this point 
the Louisiana Orange Groves Com¬ 
pany, of which Mr. Geo. H. Penn is 
President, has a splendid grove of about 
70 acres* consisting of sweet oranges, na¬ 
vels, mandarins, and pomelo. Trees -on 
sour orange roots appear to be doing bet¬ 
ter than trees on trifoliata roots, although 
some splendid trees on the latter roots, 
on better drained land, were in evi¬ 
dence. Between Happy Jack and New 
Orleans, a particularly fine citrus grove 
belonging to Mr. R. S. Moore, was 
noted at Naomi. Beyond Happy Jack, 
farther down the river, more extensive 
plantings of citrus were reported. 
Citrus canker was not found at Happy 
Jack. On Lake Pontchartrain it is more 
than likely that it will soon be in evidence. 
At the latter place extensive shipments 
of stock have been received from Texas, 
where citrus canker is common, particu¬ 
larly the 250,000 trifoliata seedlings 
previously noted. The writer found 
citrus canker on a budded tree from 
Texas, but could not prolong his search 
