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That there is money
in small specialties in
Georgia has been proven
by J. M. Barnett of
Gwinnett County, in sev
eral years' experience
with Himalaya berries.
They grow in immense
clusters, only a few rip
ening each day, each
cluster lasting several
iveeks. Single clusters
often show at one time
ripe berries, green ones
and blooms. On one
cluster was counted 16!)
berries. Mr. Barnett has
over MO feet of scaffold,
bearing fruit each year.
For the space utilized
he claims it is the most
•profitable product of his
farm. As ripe fruit, or
canned, or made into
jelly or jam, Himalaya
berries are delicious.
Here is a commercial
opportunity worth
while investigating.
i68 FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
GEORGIA MARBLE READY FOR SHIPMENT.
of the State. I am growing some trees budded from the original
tree and also have some budded from seedlings of this Telfair
county orange tree. Some of these seedlings from this local
orange are from buds cut from seedlings grown from seed this
year in my back-yard, the seed coming from an orange from the
original tree, which is located about 12 miles from McRae near
the middle of this county. I have some trees that are half grape
fruit, one quarter sweet orange and one quarter citrus trifoliata,
and various other combinations of the same three kinds of citrus
fruit. I also have some that are part lemon and some that are
part kumquat. Some of these are bearing fruit now. Most of
these hybred fruit are very hardy.
"I find that some of the full-blood sweet oranges from local
hardy seedlings are also very hardy. I have some that were
budded before the freeze of 1914 that stood that freeze and stood
the whole winter of 1914-1915 and also the winter of 1915-1916
without any protection and without any injury. The tree from a
seedling of which I am propagating my new hardy round orange
is a large tree about 15 feet high and last year it had ten or
fifteen dozen fine oranges on it of a quality superior to the oranges
that we were then getting from Florida. .