A Few inaccuracies, I imagine, occur in an article on Orange culture in Florida, in the October number, that should be corrected, viz.: Budding orange trees is not a failure in Florida, but will have to be resorted to by all careful cultivators who wish uniformity in results.

Dummit's grove is not inferior to Hart's because they are budded trees, but because Dummit's trees are not as well supplied with rich soil and abundant showers as Hart's grove is.

The close, warm air of the St. Johns favors the sweet fruit. Seeds from budded trees do not produce sour fruit because of the trees being budded. That is too shallow for science, and never proven by facts. The mixing of the pollen and the effects of culture alone can vary the quality of the seedling. The sap of Che stock can in no wise change the peculiar character of the graft on it.

Larger or smaller fruit may be the result of strong or weak stocks, but never have I seen in the least degree a sweet fruit affected by a sour stock, yet I have tried to do so by putting very sweet apples on very sour trees, but never could see any change whatever.

The orange trees of this place are all sweet seedlings, and a more varied and indifferent collection I have not seen in the State. I just now tried to eat one orange, the ripest a lady friend could find on her trees of more than 1,000 specimens, yet I could not eat all that orange, it was so sour; yet there is not a single sour tree known here, as I have been trying to get the seed. I find the best way to get good trees all over the State is to get thrifty sour seedlings and bud them low, and let them branch low, and put them in deep, rich* well-drained land, well surrounded with other trees. The best time to reset is just as soon as they commence to grow after the winter's check, and this applies to all evergreen trees; but care should be taken not to do so till the weather is warm enough to ensure growth. All the trees I can see set out here last August look badly now, and but few lived. Moving in August is more practiced in South Florida, as the climate is more moist there; yet there are failures frequently from that practice, and several persons who tried both times told me they had better success in spring planting in every case.

At Sand Point they are fast learning better than to transplant a tree in midsummer just because it can be done sometimes.

To succeed in orange growing in Florida, it will be necessary to drain deeper and plant more shelter than has been done, or the re-suits will be as now - but few fruits to many trees.