Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Propagation and Marketing of Oranges in Porto Rico
An abundance of orange trees growing wild in a certain locality will indicate the natural fitness of that locality for orange culture, but does not by any means show that a cultivated orange tree will succeed as well as the wild specimen.
Under natural conditions the fruits drop and the seeds scatter, and if conditions are favorable germination takes place. But out of the thousands of seeds germinating each season only a few seedlings can be found next season, and perhaps a couple of years hence there will be but one or two sturdy specimens left. If those same seeds were planted and cared for nearly all of them would probably grow to maturity, but certainly not all would succeed as well, even under the improved cultural conditions. As the natural selections.
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