highly anti-bilious and

 

highly anti-bilious and

Let the owners of half dead and alive groves keep an eye there for a year or two, and I am very much mistaken if they do not very much regret not having sooner taken theirs in hand in the same way. It is high time that we should be convinced, that the convenient practice of keeping the soil hard to save it, of letli ngthe weeds grow to keep it moist, of throwing in our shells to cool the roots, and having sour trees to protect the foi/age, will not do.There is another evil growing out of this extensive inlerspersion of sour trees among our sweets. An amalgamation is progressing, which, though hidden from our perception by its naturally slow course, as surely arrives at completion, if not arrested, as water at its level; and whose advance in this case must be peculiarly accelerated by the facts, that we never import new subjects, nor propagate but from the seed ; and our course of care has the effect of so greatly limiting the natural life of our trees. Nor is there any possibility of arrest hut by the removal of the sour, for we shall never fence out the winds and the bees.In the fourth place, we mistake in supposing that low rich soils, and abundant manuring, are favourable to the growth and quality of our sweet orange. The firm parts of what we call ' rich swamps,' designated by the term of ' low hammoc,' are, evidently, nature's favourite indigenous nurseries of the sour trees. There, however, they rarely, if ever, reach the size to be ranked with trees of the third class; I never saw one that did. But when placed on high sandy soils, they are frequently found in the second class; while the sweets, raised on the same, and properly tended, ascend and spread their neat, gay, and Coach Factory Outlet fragrant foliage, in the first class; but will not live in nature's low rich nurseries of the sour.I am no enemy to the sour-orange tree in its place; on the contrary, I lament the entire dereliction we have long shown to an article so grateful to man, and" susceptible of so much profit to this country. Many thousands of dollars could he drawn, annually, from our wild groves, for only the comparatively small trouble and expense of squeezing, and taking the juice to market. In the seaports of the northern states it has usually sold on an average of about twenty-five cents the gallon. I once sold a large quantity in Norfolk, Virginia, atone hundred and ten cents the gallon; purchased for the use of the British navy. The former extensive commercial house of this country, Panton, Leslie & Co. has shipped, in our more industrious days, of their own squeezing from wild groves along the shores of St. John's river, from sixty to a hundred puncheons in a season. If we would plant them out extensively in proper groves, the juice would soon get into universal demand as a cheap, most desirable, and salubrious beverage; and particularly so in tropical, and all long voyages, from its highly anti-bilious and anti-scorbutic qualities. Such is my reliance on its corrective virtues, blended with palatable qualities, derived from long experience, that I feel no apprehensions of bilious attacks, among persons of my concern, while I can Coach Outlet Online keep a barrel of it on tap for liberal use. Moreover, it is capable of rendering a larger income to Florida than the sweet orange. But it has no business whatever among our sweet orange trees.In a profuse use of manure we have not been in the habit of sinning-, intentionally, in any culture. I never knew but one who did, to the extent of a grove, and that affords a miserable specimen of success. Many of our lots, from having been stable yards, cow-pens, and hobbies of heels-overhead gardners, in days of industry ; and having acquired a large addiion of oyster-shells, (which occasions a black colour) form a deep heavy soil, excellent for gardening; but, on becoming groves, do not produce so fine an orange as those that have remained light, thiu and sandy.So averse are our sweet-orange trees to much, and particular! \ fresh manure, that the pening or nooning of cattle or horses among them, the passage of foul gutters by them, the proximity of privies, even the frequent use of the washtub under their shade, soon bring on unequivocal symptoms of disease.