Excerpt from Treatise and Handbook of Orange-Culture in Auckland, New Zealand

The author is not without practical experience on this subject, having been engaged cultivating the orange and lemon at Whangarei for some years past. Though that experience does not extend over a sufficiently long period to establish the writer, of itself, as an authority upon orange culture, it nevertheless has fitted him to prepare a hand book that will be found to contain every information required even by the veriest novice. The writer has availed himself of the works on orange-culture written by the Rev. T. W. Moore and George W. Davis, both of Florida, United States. The former work is recommended by the State Bureau of Immigration, Washington.

The writer experienced great difficulty in dealing with the subject of insects through there being no work obtain able on New Zealand entomology; and it is to be hoped that some steps will be taken to remedy this great want, particularly as insects injurious to the fruit industry are increasing with alarming rapidity, and none more so than the destructive scale. Mr. W. M. Maskell, Registrar of the New Zealand University, is the only authority in New Zealand on scale insects.

This h'andbook will amply demonstrate that the cultiva tion of the orange will, with suitable land and location, combined with intelligence, application, patience, and skill, prove more profitable than any other known industry. The Rev. T. W. Moore, in his work before alluded to, re marks: When compared to the profit from other kinds of business, that derived from orange-growing is so large that a statement of facts is often withheld, because the truth seems fabulous to those who have only had experience with other kinds of fruits. Any one acquainted with the industry will know that that is no high-falutin, but a positive fact. When the profit is not so excessively large it is the fault of the planter, and not of the industry.

Suitable soil and location is the secret, and, without these, orange-culture is nowhere.

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