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stone rocky regions always produce the finest oil. The tree, however, thrives most 
luxuriantly in deep, rich, clayey loams, which should be rendered more suitable by 
air-slaked lime as manure. It requires comparatively little pruning or care when a 
plantation is once fairly established. 
“There are numberless varieties enumerated in the French catalogues, but only 
a few of them are worth the attention of any but the curious collector. 
“The Olivier Piclioline yields the fruit most esteemed for pickling. It grows 
quite readily in any tolerable soil, and is one of the hardiest varieties.” 
The above named variety (Piclioline) is the only one we are propagating. This 
variety is held in high esteem in California, where it is successfully grown, and pro¬ 
duces a fine grade of both oil and pickles. Our trees of this variety are fine, thrifty 
and vigorous, and we have great faith in their general adaptabilty to Florida. Our 
trees, set out five years ago, are now heavily loaded with fruit. 
ORANGES. 
Satsuma. — (Synonyms: Oonshiu, Unshiu, Kii Seedless).—A native of the 
island of Kiusiu, Japan, and named after one of the chief cities of that island by the 
request of Mrs. General VanValkenburg. The fruit is medium-sized, flattened, 
deep orange color; smooth thin skin, which is sweet, aromatic, and easily detached 
from the pulp; color of pulp dark orange; segments part freely ; fine grain, tender, 
juicy, sweet, delicious, and entirely seedless. There is none of that peculiar rank 
odor which characterizes most other varieties belonging to the same class and spe¬ 
cies. The tree is perfectly thornless, of dwarf habit, comes into bearing at an early 
age, and matures its fruit very early in the season. 
This is the hardiest known variety of the Sweet Orange, and is the only variety 
that we are now propagating at our home nurseries, as we have found that frequent 
cold snaps in this latitude render the growing of other varieties of the citrus family 
too hazardous here. Its power to withstand cold, freedom from thorns, productive¬ 
ness, early ripening and, above all, fine quality of fruit, render it a valuable variety, 
and particularly so for sections where other good varieties can only be grown at 
considerable risk. Trees of this variety can be planted closer together than most 
other kinds; our own orchard of Satsumas is set fifteen feet apart each way, and 
