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Picking Out Good Oranges

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
February
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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To very inany an orange is an orange, the only varation distiuguishable being in size and oorresponding price, while those wlio know the diff'erence betwccn "Florida," "Seville," and "Mess na," oranges are considerad experts. The "Florida Cateohism" tells us better than that. We learn from il that there are "oyer thirty" varieties of sweet oranges not to mention the "natural stock," which is largor and handsomer fruit than the sweet oranges, and is excellent for orangeade and marmalade, but, being very SOUT, is seldoni sliipped north. Tlie medium sizes are apt to be the choicest, and "probably the very sweetest orange that is marketed is the rusty coatedand ráthor ill-looking orange, which might be considerad inferior by an amateur." Furthcrmore: "The way to detect oranges is to 'heft' them in your hands; piek out the thin skinned heavy fruit, and yon are al right," The light-weight fruit s apt to bc juiceless, a conditíon caused either by a slight freezing while on the tree, or, more probably, by tlie poverty of the soil in which it grew. All tliis applies to the sweet oranges. The "kid glove" oranges are grown ia Florida from two stocks brought, respectively, from China and Tangiera. Heneo they are called Mandarían and Tangerine oranges. Both are small; the skin is loose and ea.sily remo ed, and the sections fall apart so readily that a lady can eat one without spoiling her gloves; henee the name. Sonic othcr interesling bits of information my be picked out from this "Catechism." It is not generally known, for instancc, that "an orange that is entirely dead ripc In December will hang on tlie tree until March. and Is ready at any time to be picked and shipped;" while so far from (U'trriorating. "the longer they hang on the trees thesweeter tliey grow," and Florida oranges, purchased in Fcbruary and Maren, are thereforc apt to be better than thoso procurad carly in the season. Again, the notion that, to know what an orauge is roally like, one must go where the orangos grow apjears to be a popular faüacy, as we are told that "the orange picked from the tree is no riper or botter than the oranges on the fruit

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat