Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — The Orange Tree. [ARTICLE]

The Orange Tree.

The orange tree ia the longest-lived fruit tree known. It is reputed to have obtained the age of 300 years, and it has been known to have flourished and borne fruit for more than 100 years,’ No fruit tree will grow and produce fruit so well under rough treatment]! It comences to bear the third or fourth year after budding, and by the 4ifth rear it will produce an abundant crop; but its yield will increase gradually under favorable circumstances, and as the years pass on it will become a very productive tree. The early growth/of the orange is quite rapid, and by the tenth year it will have increased more than in the next fifty years, so far as its breadth and height are concerned; but as its age multiplies its fruit stems greatly, and an old tree will sometimes bear several thousand oranges.— Jack* sonville Times- Union.