. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 164 rUF. AGRICULTURAL NKWS. May 24, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. CITRUS FRUIT IN TSE PHILIPPINES. Uiilil recently nothing had been done in the Philippines to stimuldte and impiove the cultivation of oranges and limes. .A movemLMit in thi-s direction, however, has lately been set on foat by the Bureau of Agriculture, and an article in the PliUippim Journal or Science for December, 1912, contains useful results that accrued from an investigation by the Bureau of Science into the commercial possibilities and chemica


. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 164 rUF. AGRICULTURAL NKWS. May 24, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. CITRUS FRUIT IN TSE PHILIPPINES. Uiilil recently nothing had been done in the Philippines to stimuldte and impiove the cultivation of oranges and limes. .A movemLMit in thi-s direction, however, has lately been set on foat by the Bureau of Agriculture, and an article in the PliUippim Journal or Science for December, 1912, contains useful results that accrued from an investigation by the Bureau of Science into the commercial possibilities and chemical comp'jsitiou of a few of the m vst important citrus varieties grown in that territory. Describing first, in a general wjy, the condition of the orange cultivation, it is stated that ths trees are often planted too close, and that no attempt is made to prune or otherwise improve them, and the orchards are frequently overgrown with bushes. Plant lice and scale in places, occasion much damage, and injury caused by ;, and serious cases of gummosis are also to be found. Nearly every tree observed was a host of Lorant/rus jihili/ipensii!, a parasitic plant of the mistletoe family. The chemical investigations on the Philippine orange (Cilrus nohilis, Lour ) concerned analysis of the orange itself, the juice and the pulp. The average percentage gross com- position of the fruit is as follows: peel 23-4: pulp and 5eed.«, T6'6; seeds, 3 0. The average weight "f 788 oranges was 138 grammes, and the average number of seeds in each fruit ?was twenty-two. It is of interest to remember in this connex- ion that the average weight of an orange of the California Washington Navel type is about 280 pramuies, and the peel weighs, on an average, only 24 grammes, being but slightly heavier than that of the much smaller Philippine fruit. The percentage composition of the juice of the mature Philippine orange is indicated by the following figures; solids, IISO; sucrose, 7 11;


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