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thoroughly mixed with the soil a week or more before setting 
in the plants. 
As to the proper time to set the plants opinion vary. Sep¬ 
tember is none too early in this latitude tor the market berry * 
October is not too late for home use. The market berry 
should ripen in February or March; for home use it will be 
richer if ripened in April and May. 
These are a few of the principles observed by the best grow¬ 
ers, and they will need modification as to locality and soil. 
Each must study and experiment for himself. 
To you who plant for gain I would say that when the fruit 
first shows its crimson face, pick it carefully in the cool of 
the day, pack it daintily in honest measure, carry it to the 
station without a jolt and bid it good bye with joy for it shall 
return transformed from red to gold. And you, housewife or 
husband, looking not to pecuniary harve st—gather when fully 
ripe, sprinkle with sugar and cover with cream, and as you 
eat let memory carry you again to the scenes of your youth— 
sit once more in the porch of the farm house under the hill— 
look on the tall, brown gras* in the meadow—think of the 
fruit gathered therefrom in the long-gone June days—feel 
once more the ecstacy of that childish appetite and then thank 
God that He created the strawberry and made it so good. 
Variety of Oranges and Their Derivation. 
Paper read by E. S. Hubbard, of Federal Point, Putnam county. 
Chairman of Standing Committee on Nomenclature. 
For several years I have given considerable time and 
thought to study of the derivation of the citrus, and compar¬ 
ison of varieties of the different species both bv field study 
and analysis of qualities by a scale of points. At the DeLand 
meeting of the society I informally brought to its notice a 
chart that gives a bird’s eye view of the derivation and devel¬ 
opment of the four primary species and their crosses or vari¬ 
eties. These primary species, like the thornapple of temper¬ 
ate climates, still grow wild in the East Indies, the native 
home of all the citrus, being all unedible, and are the fingered 
citron, the wild lime, the citrus trifoliata, and limonia or cit¬ 
rus acidijsima. 
