. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. ORANGE ORANGE 1155. i^lHi #iU»iflk FLORIDA OBiNGE CROPS. 1884-85 600,000 1885-86 900,000 1886-87 1, 1887-88 1, 1S88-S9 1,950,000 1889-90 ,000 1890-91 2,450,000 1891-92 3,761,843 1892-93 ,000 1893-94 5,055,367 1894-95 6,000,000 (Est.) 1895-96 100,000 1896-97 250,000 1897-98 1898-9
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. ORANGE ORANGE 1155. i^lHi #iU»iflk FLORIDA OBiNGE CROPS. 1884-85 600,000 1885-86 900,000 1886-87 1, 1887-88 1, 1S88-S9 1,950,000 1889-90 ,000 1890-91 2,450,000 1891-92 3,761,843 1892-93 ,000 1893-94 5,055,367 1894-95 6,000,000 (Est.) 1895-96 100,000 1896-97 250,000 1897-98 1898-99 225,000 1899-1900 400,000 1900-1901 1, (Est.) Many groves in Orange county and northward have been broiight into fair condition by banking the trunks with earth during the winter so as to limit the injury by frost, and if another series of frostless winters like those between 1870 and 1880 were to occur, these groves, with others newly planted, would gain sufficient age and size to defy the ordinary frosts and make this region again productive. Many acres have recently been shedded over with slats or canvas —usually removed in summer —and, thus pro- tected from the cold, are promising large returns on the heavy investment re- quired to build the sheds -from $G00 to $1,000 per acre. Figs. 1555-0. They are usually heated during the coldest nights, either with open wood fires or "j^itf^i stoves burning coke or coal. The most extensive shedding operations are those of John B. Stetson, of Deland, who has 37 acres covered, various sys- tems of protection being employed on different plots. The Orange has been grown on the most varied soils in Florida, but successful groves have been mainly on "high hammock" and "high pine," and the greatest profit, as a rule, has been from the hammock groves, where seedling trees came into bearing much earlier than on pine-land, and both seedling and budded trees produce more abundant crops. The Orange groves of
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