. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 100 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. March 29, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. A NEW STOCK FOR ORANGES. The Revue Horticole foiv August 16, 1912, ha- article describing a new stock for oranges. Th' abstracted as follows in the Bulletin of the Burea AgricitUural Intelligence and of Plant ^ October 1912:— The natives of North Africa have two inaniiers of ; gating orange trees: in most instances they resort . sowing of a good fruit; the tree takes about fifteen ye grow, assumes a fine shape, and generally yields good Th
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 100 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. March 29, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. A NEW STOCK FOR ORANGES. The Revue Horticole foiv August 16, 1912, ha- article describing a new stock for oranges. Th' abstracted as follows in the Bulletin of the Burea AgricitUural Intelligence and of Plant ^ October 1912:— The natives of North Africa have two inaniiers of ; gating orange trees: in most instances they resort . sowing of a good fruit; the tree takes about fifteen ye grow, assumes a fine shape, and generally yields good These ungrafted orange trees were formerly fairly abiT in all the mountain ravines on the coast where irrigai, easy, but fine specimens for sowing have been 1 i destroyed by root disease, or rot of the bark on a leve! the ground. This is a serious infeciion, whioh is very promoted by the bad habit of guiding the water into a at the foot of the tree. In the desert region where oranges are still growi pagation is carried out by grafting on a slip or 11 a citrus taking root easily. Unfortunately all tli stocks are sprung from Citrus Litnonwin and theii to the foot disease is very doubtful. In ^[orocco, among the BeniSnassen anotlei- very ^ stock is used, the 'M'gergeb', which has generally been for a citron tree, but which ma/ very well be a cross ? citron and the orange. This stock is resistant to tL disease, whereas the citron is lamentably deficient in that r The 'M'gergeb' may very usefully be employed foi ing varieties .-iuch as the Pomelos, which are too vigor' reach their full growth on the roots of Seville orangf Pomelos being on the other hand practically immune ^ foot disease, there would be every advantage in propH_ these citrus trees, already much in demand in America, t \ grafting with the aid of the 'M'gergeb'. The 'M'gergi thus also render service in the multiplication of Citrus tea or Kumquat, which succeeds poorly on Seville • and wliiib is only grafted on
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