. 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. 1154 ORANGE ORANGE lows: Garey, "Orange Culture in California," San Fran- cisco, 1882 ; Moore, "Treatise of Orange Culture in Florida, Louisiana and California," New York and Jacksonville, Third Edition, 1883; Manville, "Practical Orange Culture: including the Culture of the Orange, Lem
. 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. 1154 ORANGE ORANGE lows: Garey, "Orange Culture in California," San Fran- cisco, 1882 ; Moore, "Treatise of Orange Culture in Florida, Louisiana and California," New York and Jacksonville, Third Edition, 1883; Manville, "Practical Orange Culture: including the Culture of the Orange, Lemon, Lime, and other citrous fruits as grown in Florida," Jacksonville, 188,3 ; Spalding, "The Orange: Its Culture in California," Riverside, 1885. One should also consult Wickson's "California Fruits," and the pub- lications of the California State Board of Horticulture. For an account of the Orange from the botanical point of view, see Citrus. l. H. B. Orange Culture in Florida.—The foimdation of Orange culture in Florida was laid, it is believed, by the accidental distribution of sour Orange seeds by the Indians, who obtained the fruit from trees planted by the Spaniards in early days, and which were probably grown from imported seeds. These sour Oranges were carried from camp to camp, and the seeds thus scattered through the northern and central parts of peninsular Florida found congenial soil and conditions in the open hardwood forests and live- oak groves of that region, and in time formed wild groves of great extent, always in places where more or less protected from sun and radiation by towering live-oaks, magnolias and similar trees. Sweet Oranges were grown to some extent for family use even before the civil war, but in the absence of transportation facilities were considered of no commer- cial value. Between 18G5 and 1870, however, the Orange trees along the banks of the St. John's river began to attract attention as a profitable investment,
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