| Show thin skinned Or DEC it has often been questioned why orange growers will graft and plant varieties with thick eking when the great public appreciates a thin skinned ono one more highly asking a grower it if not ono of the secrets secrete of the orange growing trade why this was thus he be replied that the thin skinned kinds were rarely as productive as the thick fik irined ones that the public would give no more for a box of thin fokitis than for a box of thick ones odes and as thero there was calif more profit in growing orange skins than in growing glowing orange flesh the skins shins carried the day wo we have never beard such buch an explanation before and this may be only chaff still tho the great question remains why do orange growers glowers graft and plant thick skinned sorts when the thiu thin skins are preferable lians monthly |
