Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1918 — WAR ORANGE IS THE LATEST [ARTICLE]

WAR ORANGE IS THE LATEST

To Be Grown Twice Normal Size as Bit of Super-Hooverizing in California. Santa Ana., Cal. —The war orange is the latest bit of super-Hooverlzlng in California. The plan is to make the orange grow about twice its normal size, thus producing double the quantity of luscious fruit. Miss Grace Hudson of this city is the first to succeed. She picked an orange from a tree at her home that measured six! inches in height, 18 inches in circumference, and weighed more than two pounds. It was a mammoth example of citrus fruit, even for California, and Miss Hudson’s explanation was: “I have only a small number of trees; just had to make the oranges grow larger, so I just wished hard.”