A Treatise On Citrus Culture in California With a Description of the Best Vari
A Treatise On Citrus Culture in California With a Description of the Best Vari
California State Board of Horticulture
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A deep, rich, porous soil is not only necessary to insure a good yield of fruit, but absolutely necessary to give the trees a vig- orous growth. Trees on heavy adobe or poor soil become stunted, and will not produce fine fruit. This is a fact that has been proven generations back, and I need not comment upon it. What the orange tree wants, and must have to yield a profitable return, is a deep, rich soil, gravelly or otherwise. Orange trees planted in a poor soil never become profitable bearers.... DISTANCES TO PLANT. Dwarfs, such as Tangerine, Satsuma, etc 10 feet. Semi-dwarfs, such as Washington Navel Mediterranean Sweet, Maltese Blood St. Michael 18 to 24 feet. Standards, such as Wolfskin's Best, etc 24 to 30 feet. Seedlings . 30 to 40 feet. NUMBER OF TREES ON AN ACRE WHEN PLANTED. Square. Quincunx. Ten feet 426 831 Twelve feet 303 571 Fourteen feet 222 4 r 5 Sixteen feet . .... 170 313 Eighteen feet 134 247 Twenty feet .... 109 199 Twenty-two feet .... 9 173 Twenty-four feet .... 76 137 Thirty feet 48 83 THE ORANGE.
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