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166 FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
known for some time to the experts of the United States depart
ment of agriculture and the horticulturists of the Georgia State
College of Agriculture, as well as to the agricultural agents of
some of the railroads and certain prominent Georgians of an
inquiring turn of mind, that the coast section of Georgia is almost
ideally adapted to the growing of the Satsuma orange, a partic
ularly hardy orange that grows in Japan where snow falls every
winter.
Most people prefer the Satsuma to the ordinary oranges, both
because it is of the "kid glove" or tangerine type, which can be
eaten without soiling the hands, and because it is sweeter and
better flavored than either the tangerine or ordinary oranges of
any variety. Authorities state that the Satsuma will not grow in
southern Florida successfully, nor in southern California, those
climates being rather too warm during the winter. The Sat
suma itself is the most hardy of edible oranges, and is grafted on
the roots of the citrus trifoliata, a sort of first cousin to the
edible oranges, which produces non-edible fruit, and is a deciduous
tree, shedding its leaves and becoming absolutely dormant in win
ter. The citrus trifoliata grows as far north as Rochester, N. Y..
TOBACCO GROWING UNDER LATTICE SHADE. AMSTERDAM.