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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 167
being used as an ornamental tree in the yards in that city. Its
state of dormancy in winter makes it impossible for the Satsuma
top which has been grafted on it, to grow, as the roots fail to send
up any sap until spring.
Achievements or an Amateur Horti
culturist
George H. Harris, a prominent attorney at McRea, Ga., is in
cidentally an amateur horticulturist. Some of his accomplish
ments, especially with citrus fruit, considering the latitude of
Telfair county, where he lives, are extremely interesting. In a
letter to Facts About Georgia, he says:
"My work with citrus fruits in this place began in 1911, and I
have trees now of all ages up to five years, some of them bearing
fruit. I have two grapefruit trees, one Parson Brown orange
tree, three Satsuma orange trees, and dozens of hybrids of
oranges, grapefruit, lemons and kumquats, many of them bear
ing fruit this year for the first time. I have this year begun
propagating a very hardy "round orange" that is sweeter and
better than any seedling that I have ever seen grown in this part
SCREENED PROPAGATION BEDS, SUMATRA TOBACCO, AMSTERDAM, GA.