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activity, which has always been a remunerative one; but 
it is only within recent times that the gardens of the North 
have been in any way brought into competition with the 
truck farms of the South. Again, as the industry has 
grown, difficulties similar to those experienced by fruit 
growers with insect enemies and fungous diseases have 
forced themselves upon the vegetable growers, and they, 
too, are asking for information and assistance to protect 
their crops, all of which tends to make it easier to effect 
organization which will bring about a better understanding 
and a more rapid development in this much neglected field.” 
“In conclusion, I wish to urge that we as hortieulturists 
neglect no opportunity to strengthen our educational 
institutions along botanical lines and that we encourage 
every institution offering instruction in horticulture to as 
rapidly as possible segregate their work in horticulture, so 
as to give the work of instruction in vegetable gardening 
the recognition that its commercial importance justifies.” 
A LONG-KEEPING ORANGE 
The Ad Interim Committee on Wilder Medals of the 
American Pomological Society has awarded a silver medal 
to a new variety of orange, known as the Lue Gim Gong. 
This variety has the following history: 
Origin. —In 1888, Mr. Lue Gim Gong, De Land, Fla., 
pollinated Harts Late with pollen from what was believed to 
be a Mediterranean Sweet tree. One orange containing 
fifteen to eighteen seeds resulted from the crossing. From 
these seeds about twelve trees were raised, no two of which 
proved to be alike. 
The variety, now called Lue Gim Gong, when it came 
into fruit seemed to be such an improvement on Harts Late 
that Mr. Lue budded fifteen trees with this variety in one 
side and Harts Late (Tardiff) on the other. About thirty 
other trees were budded with this variety on one side and 
other varieties on the other. Five trees are now solid. 
CoMPARiso.NS.—At this time. Harts Late is the standard 
late orange of Florida and it may therefore be well to make 
eomparisons between this new variety and the standard 
sort. On July 6th, 1909, Mr. Lue took fifteen boxes of 
Harts Late (from one side of above trees) to the packing 
house and after testing for Sp. Gr. by placing in water, 
packed five boxes out of the fifteen. These were considered 
to have enough weight for shipping. Those five boxes 
were shipped to North Adams, Mass. Upon arrival they 
had to be repacked at a cost of 35 cents per box and then 
only three boxes remained. The three boxes repacked sold 
for $2.50 per box. 
At the same time five boxes were picked of the Lue 
Gim Gong orange from the other side of the same trees. 
The fruit was not tested for Sp. Gr. and all the fruit was 
shipped. On arrival at North Adams they did not require 
repacking and the whole five boxes brought $4.50 per box. 
The Lue Gim Gong orange is a hardy, thrifty growing 
variety. It can be marketed to advantage in August and 
September when other varieties are out of season, and 
when the only fruit on the markets is Valencia Late from 
California. 
The fruit hangs on the trees with very little dropping 
through the rainy season which in Florida usually begins in 
June and lasts several weeks. The fruit has been known 
to hang on the trees, two, three and even four years in an 
edible, state. There is no question but that this variety 
marks the beginning of a new era in late orange culture. 
The report of the committee is as follows: 
General Appearance.— Good on fruit of this season. Two 
year olds a little coarser in peel, but still good. Three year old fruit 
thicker peel and darker in color. 
Size.— 3 inches from calyx to blossom end and in dia¬ 
meter. 
Form.— Good. Somewhat cylindrical with well rounded ends. 
Color.— A little light in midsea.son, darkening to a rich deep 
reddish-yellow later in spring and summer. 
Market Value. —Very promising. 
Shipping Quality. —Most excellent. 
Keeping Quality. —Of the best, its most marked quality. 
Dessert Value. —Good. 
Texture. —Firm with strong tissues. 
Flavor. —Sprightly, a rich blend of sweetness and sub-acid. 
Quality.- —Good. 
Special Merit Noticed. —Holding its juice while on the tree 
for thirty months, and its remarkable resistance to cold. 
Defects Noticed. —Membranes strong, as in all late oranges. 
Productiveness. —Prolific even when loaded with previous 
season’s crop. 
Hardiness. —Ver> hardy. 
Resistance TO Disease. — Good. < 
Recommendation. —Worthy of wide trial for planting on a 
large scale for a year around orange. 
G. L. Taber, 
W. S. Hart, 
G. B. Brackett, 
Committee. 
A full description and history of this variety appears in 
the Report of the .American Pomological Society covering 
the proceedings of the Florida meeting. This variety is 
unique in its keeping qualities. The writer within a few 
weeks has examined specimens of the fruitage of 1908, and 
found them in edible condition. These had clung to the 
tree since that time. They had become somewhat over¬ 
grown and slightly rough, and had lost a good deal of the 
juice, but were not vastly inferior to many of the store 
oranges we are accu stomped to pay thirty or forty cents a 
dozen for. The variety is being introduced by the Glen 
Saint Mary Nurseries of Glen Saint Mary, Florida. 
John Craig, 
Secretary American Pomological Society 
CONDITIONS IN GEORGIA 
The drouth which prevailed during February and 
March has at last been broken. Spring planting has been 
necessarily retarded, as the ground was so dry that it was 
impossible to do any planting during the months of Feb¬ 
ruary and March. The deficiency of rainfall in the Augu.sta 
district for the past thirty months is twenty-four inches. 
Notwithstanding the drouth of the past two months, the 
demand for nursery stock has been very heavy and we 
have had all the orders we could handle. 
The peach crop in Georgia this year will not be a bumper. 
The warm weather in early February forced the trees into 
