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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s. But he adds that farther experience isrequired to establish whether these budded trees will be as long-lived or as full-bearing as seedlings and standards; but theyseem, at any rate, to shorten the period of waiting for a prof-itable orchard. Probably both methods of propagation will beadopted, under different circumstances. In either case there isevery certainty that the orange-culture in California and Flor-ida will in the future be an exceedingly profitable one. Thereis no reason to doubt that in Alabama, Arkansas, and the ad-jacent States, orange-culture will be profitable. Until within a very few years all the oranges consumed inthe United States were imported mainly from the shores ofthe Mediterranean and the West Indies. In 1874 there werebrought to New York about 130,000,000 oranges from Europe,and about 32,000,000 from the West Indies. Assuming thatthey brought only one cent apiece, the value of the import intothis port was a million and a half of dollars. But as the fruit
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IRRIGATING AN ORANGE GROVE.See Note 3. PRODUCTS OF THE ORCHARD. 89 has to make a long voyage, it is usually picked while quite green,and it does not attain its best flavor when ripened off the tree.The Florida or California grower need labor under no such dis-advantage. He can wait until his fruit is nearly ripe beforepicking it; so that it will reach the market in a much bettercondition than the foreign fruit. The sudden growth of orange-culture in Florida is remarkable. In 1870 the value of the en-tire orchard products of the State was only about $50,000; in1880 they amounted to more than $750,000—an increase of fif-teenfold; and by far the greater part of this product consistedof oranges. Mr. Nordhoff visited California in 1871, when, as he says, the question of the permanent and very great profitablenessof the orange-culture was still open; but now (1882) it is settled.From his work we quote, with necessary abridgments: The orange, lemon, and lime are now planted on a large scal

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