Akron Beacon Journal · Akron, Ohio · 13 December 1893
CP-1893-001
Orange Growing in Palestine
Planters’ Gazette
Transcribed from the clipping
“It is only of recent years that Jaffa oranges have obtained a worldwide reputation, for but some 18 years since they were scarcely known save at Beyroot, Alexandria and Constantinople. A special feature of the Jaffa orange is that it will keep 30 or 40 days, and if properly packed for two and sometimes even three months.
The port of Jaffa is surrounded on the land side by orange groves, covering an area of 1,780 acres.
New orange groves are constantly being planted, and there are now double as many as there were 15 years ago… During all this time and even afterward the orchards have to be watered continually, and this irrigation is the most difficult and laborious part of the work, the water having to be drawn by means of primitive waterwheels from wells dug in the gardens 90 feet and even 100 feet deep.”
Context added by this archive
An export trade with a shelf life and a shipping problem, written up for American readers in 1893, and reprinted from the Planters’ Gazette. Nobody arguing about anything.
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"Orange Growing in Palestine," Akron Beacon Journal, 13 December 1893, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1893-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1893-001
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