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RURALISMS 
The Seedless Orange 
Will you give me a brief history of 
the seedless orange? g. h. c. 
Davidson, Ind. 
The navel orange is believed to be a 
chance seedling of the common sweet 
orange that grew in the neighborhood of 
Kahia, Brazil, where it attained a high 
reputation for its excellent quality. 
About 1870 the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture at Washington imported a few of 
the trees and later sent scions and buds 
of this variety to growers in Florida and 
California. It succeeded wonderfully in 
California, but did not appear to pro¬ 
duce well in Florida. It was first known 
as the Bahia orange, but the name of 
Washington Navel was given to it by 
California growers. Though generally 
seedless, the flowers produce pollen, and 
an occasional viable seed is found in 
some of the fruits. Hybrids have been 
raised showing some of the same char¬ 
acteristics, but as yet the Washington 
Navel holds commercial supremacy. The 
Department of Agriculture has been in¬ 
vestigating other Brazilian oranges, and 
its collectors have been searching for su¬ 
perior varieties likely to prove valuable 
in the United States. 
Sowing Asparagus 
How deep should I dig a trench for as- 
p.iragus? Should I dig in subsoil? 
^Vould spent manure from a hotbed be of 
any use in bottom of trench? How far 
apart should plants stand in trench ; how 
far. apart should the rows be? Would 
throe or four seeds planted at the proper 
distance be right? p. v. 
Oxford, N. ,T. 
In planting asparagus seed for a per¬ 
manent plantation I make the trenches 
15 inches deep and put in about six 
inches of fine rotten manure. The manure 
from an old hotbed will be excellent. 
Cover with soil and sow the seed thinly. 
I have elsewhere given full directions for 
this method of cultivation. The late 
Peter Henderson said that this method, 
while good would >take a year longer. I 
have found that I can get good asparagus 
a year sooner than by transplanting the 
roots. Everyone knows what slender 
shoots come from the transplanted roots 
the first season. Compare them with the 
shoots from undisturbed rtiots and you 
can easily see the reason why the nndis- 
tnrlied roots will make stronger and 
earlier shoots. I thin the young plants 
when only a few inches high to two feet 
in the rows, and I make the rows four 
feet apart so that I can grow a crop of 
lettuce or some other short early crop be¬ 
tween the rows. I prefer to s<'W the seed 
thinly all .along the rows so'as to be sure 
to have plenty to thin out. I have trans¬ 
planted bed and plants from the same 
season's growth left undisturbed seven 
years ago. and the undisturbed plants are 
still making heavier stalks than the ones 
transplanted. w. F. massky. 
Save the Fruit Spurs 
Does the average person realize the 
great importance of the fruit spur with 
its well-developed fruit bud? Every 
fruit spur which is broken or knocked 
off lessens the fruit possibilities of that 
tree by one or more fruits for this sea¬ 
son, but not only for this season, but 
for years to come. When a fruit spur is 
broken from the main limb it is seldom 
that one forms there again. Why is it 
that there is no fruit produced on the 
main limbs and branches? Usually it 
is because they have all been either 
broken or cut off. Broken by workmen 
climbing into the tree or cut away by 
the primer who wanted to do a “neat” 
job and leave the branches slick and 
clean. Fruit spurs only two or three 
inches long may be eight or 10 years 
old, but produce just as good apples as 
those only two years old. Another way 
the spurs are broken is in harvesting 
the apples, the picker is careless and 
breaks the spur which later falls to the 
ground. Also when branches are cut 
and are pulled carelessly through the 
tree large numbers of the spurs are bro¬ 
ken. Keep the bearing surface of your 
apple trees at its maximum by saving 
the fruit .spurs on the main limbs and 
branches as well as out on the small 
twigs. S. P. HOLLISTER. 
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