. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGniCULTUPAL XE' January 9, WEST INDIAN FRUIT. THE 'KING'ORANGE. An orange of superior qn;ilit\-, known as the ' King' variety, the first plants of which were imported directly from Cochin China some twenty-eight years ago, has lately attracted attention in the citrus fruit districts of the United States, and an account of its characteristics, etc. (with illustrations), is given in the course of an article entitled ' Promising New Fruits,' which appears in the latest Ycarhodl,- of the United States Depar
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGniCULTUPAL XE' January 9, WEST INDIAN FRUIT. THE 'KING'ORANGE. An orange of superior qn;ilit\-, known as the ' King' variety, the first plants of which were imported directly from Cochin China some twenty-eight years ago, has lately attracted attention in the citrus fruit districts of the United States, and an account of its characteristics, etc. (with illustrations), is given in the course of an article entitled ' Promising New Fruits,' which appears in the latest Ycarhodl,- of the United States Department of Agriculture. It is mentioned that tliis orange (whii-li is known by the name of ' King of Siaiii') is the citins fruit of high quality whicli has reached the United by direct impor- tation from Asia, the course being a .slow migration through Western Asia, and the orange-growing districts of the Mediterranean. The ' Kin;; orange was at first classed with the manda rins and tangerini-s, but further with the variety has shown that it is so distinct in the character of the tree, the fruit, and the time of ripening that it appears worthy of recognition as a distiin-t horticultural grouji, if not a sub- .spccies. Specimens of the fruit of this orange were first obtained from Eastern Asia by a I)r. S. 1!. Magee, of Riverside, Cali- fornia, in 1880, throngli the ertbrts of the United States at Tokio. From the seeds of these fruits Dr. Magee raised a number of young plants, and in the following year twenty-live jilants of the variety were im[)orted direct from ("ochin ('hina. I'.udded trees appear to been jiroduced V>oth from the seedlings and the imported plants, and this probalily accounts for the rather wide range in haliit of growth, tliornincss of wood, and ipiality of fruit found on trees of the " King' variety at the jjresent time. The ' King ' orange first fruited in the United in 18
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