New Guide To Orange Culture Descriptive Catalogue And Price List Of The Manville Nurseries Lake George Florida

Author : E. A. Manville
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ISBN 13 : 9781332168460
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book New Guide to Orange Culture (Classic Reprint) written by E. A. Manville and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Guide to Orange Culture We have been engaged in orange culture for the last ten years. During this time we have found it necessary to propagate nursery stock for our own use. The demand for our surplus stock has so increased that we now feel warranted in making this a special branch of our business. Florida is a growing State, and no branch of industry is attracting more attention than orange culture. A large amount of capital is being invested in this business, attracted no doubt by the large profits realized from bearing groves. The number of groves started in 1879 exceeded that of any previous year. A large portion of these trees died, or were irrecoverably stunted by unseasonable transplantation, improper soil, location, or management. This was largely owing to the ignorance of many respecting the peculiarities of our soil and climate, and the habits of semi-tropical fruit trees. To afford some reliable information among many conflicting statements we have added to our Catalogue a brief but comprehensive Guide To Orange Culture. We have avoided all doubtful points, and include only such facts as are generally accepted. To those who wish a more complete work on the subject, we have no hesitation in recommending the "Treatise and Hand Book on Orange Culture," by T. W. Moore, of Fruit Cove, Fla. The Citrus is our specialty; we endeavor to make our collection in this department as complete as possible. We have carefully studied the nomenclature and classification of this family of plants, which is perhaps more confused than any other cultivated fruit. All the varieties contained in the Descriptive Catalogue have been obtained from thoroughly reliable sources. We have visited the principal groves in the State, securing buds of the best native varieties from the original trees. Our leading varieties are propagated from bearing trees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.