At Last A Hardy Orange

The department of agriculture at Washington has for years been trying to produce a new orange that will withstand the cold waves that have devastated the groves of Florida twice in the last decade, says the New York Times. Herbert J. Webber claims to have developed an orange that can be grown 200 miles farther north than the varieties hitherto commonly grown in Florida. He has accomplished this by crossing the Japanese trifoliate orange, an ornamental tree, with the common varieties successively until a fine fruit capable of enduring extreme cold has been produced.