VITALITY OF THE ORANGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1346, 6 April 1883, Page 3

VITALITY OF THE ORANGE.

The orange tree one would naturally infer to be very tender and requiring very careful treatment and handling. The fact is, however, that it is one of .most hardy of trees, and will often live through the most trying ordeals and B.urvive the moat careless handling .to which almost any other tree would succumb. Dr A. f. White's fine orchard) on Main-street, affords two strjking.instances of its surviving hard treatments; of tha.icareless treatment yo,u will have to go "further to learn, for you can find no instance of it there, One of his trees, some two years ago, was stripped of its bark, just under the surface of the ground, for several inches ground the entire circumference of the - a shred remaining. The damage could not be seen from the ■.surface, and it was not discovered until the tree showed signs of disease. Investigating for a cause the wound was discovered. . It was bound up and the top pruned back so as not to strain its energies, and now that tree has a good crop of oranges, almost as fine' as can be found in the orchard. Another case of hardihood in his same orchard is where a mischievous hoy, some four or fivd years ago, perhaps more, as it was long" before the Doctor came into .possession of the property, completely girdled the limb of an orange tree with a new knife he was testing. That limb starves and:is.now full of oranges, and it. has borne ovevy yeftr was'gir'dled, though the wound haa not pealed, and a space of two inches of thfttllhnb'is'j'appafehtly, fls; deid ai it eYer jCan be, and flat, only .tfoaj, but, it is cracked'almost'entirely through at the samb'.place,.caused by the ;weight- of fruit it-haß:borne.T-£o« Angelas Timet.

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