Oranges

The very sweetest orange and richest is the black or rusty coated fruit. Piek out the dingiest oranges in the box, and you will get the best. Auother way to choose oranges is by weight. The heaviest are the best, because they have the thinnest skiu and inore %veight of juice. Thick skinned oranges are apt to be dry. They either weigh less because of haviug so mach skin or because of thepoverty of the juice in these particular specimens. A slight freezing on the tree causes this coudition iu otherwise fine fruit. The "kid glove" orauges are the two varieties of small fruit grown in Florida frora stocks respectively brought from China and froni Tangier They are called mandarín and tangerine They ruay be eaten without soiling a kid glove, because the skin is loose and the little "gores. "or pockets of juice, come apart verycleanly and without breaking. All the above applies to Florida oranges. The Jamaica and Havana oranges are much paler yellow, and their juice is usually of more acid quality than the home grown orauges.