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Paper Abstract: Discusses the development of the citrus fruit as a crop. Origins and early historical function of oranges. Introduction to the New World. Growing popularity in America's citrus belt. Op[timal climate for growing sweet oranges. How growers combat frost. Effect of disease and economics.. Characteristics of oranges as a viable food crop. Paper Introduction: This paper is a discussion of oranges, their development as a fruit crop, and the effects of weather, climate, and other environmental forces on their growth. Although oranges are familiar fruits across the world, they are a relatively modern addition to international food choices, providing health benefits as well as culinary diversity. They can be grown widely but only within the "citrus belt," the latitudes that allow for the temperate climates and sufficient rainfall that the trees need to produce healthy, good-sized fruit. Oranges are believed to have originated in the more tropical regions of China and the Malay Archipelago. Leon D. Batchelor and Walton S. Sinclair write, "Oranges and other citrus species have been cultivated from remote ages, and records of this early distribution from the original habitat to nearby countries are lost Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. familiar fruits across the world they are for thetemperate climates and sufficient Sinclair write Oranges and other begin their trek across the citrus fruit or tree The Romans record the discovery of near Naples Yet these citrons the forerunners of the fruit that the aurantium that eventually became equated in thepublic mind with Spain Domine planted the first orange tree inRome and by had made their this refreshing new variety of fresh fruit A America by the middle of the time it was planted Batchelor particular have developed a worldwide demand a benefit that has been increasingly recognized as Citrusreticulata Blanco and Citrus nobilis are fruit and as the source oforange juice These of the other countries around theglobe The fruit ripens only on the tree so fully ripenedfruit Winston W Jones observes it too bitter to consume Consistent periods of degrees and by paying strict attention to climate conditions He included choosing the rightlocation within the least likely tosettle and destroy a crop be either radiation or advective freezes Radiation freezes tooquickly Farmers often combat such frosts more difficult topredict when growing crops over a as arctic air is usually carried in by the soil for a day or two before the freeze as to allow air tocirculate planning that beginswith an awareness that temperature will and keeping the trees ashealthy as possible to itproduces enabling the plant to handle cooler and do not shed their rainfall Keepingorange crops properly watered is not that restricted water produces smaller fruit while toomuch not necessarily yieldnaturally sweet juice Janet to sweeten thejuice Because oranges nutrient lacking in most citrus-producing soils center Growers need to paysome effects Diseases also threaten crops including a canker that completely eradicated In addition economics affect crops as supply and not to pick all the fruit Sometimesorange crops are left trees rather than being sold on a inexperienced gardeners are usuallyable to produce Works CitedBatchelor Leon D and Walton B Sinclair Grapefruit Fall Well Short of Orange Its Biochemistry and Physiology the effects of weather climate and culinary diversity They can be grownwidely but only the more tropical regionsof China and the Malay Archipelago the originalhabitat to nearby countries times The Greeks seem not to began to be widely planted in the in rooms and to repel insects but in Byzantine mosaics include depictions of the occupation of the Moors in the presented to England's queenas an exotic treasure Sweet grow oranges were being built on many of the wealthier were introduced gradually into the s but even a small Californianorchard planted in the one of thegreatest producers of an increasingly popular a fresh fruitbut also because of sour oranges usedprimarily for orange marmalade The largest crops include Valencias and otherpopular varieties States and in Israel Spain Brazil and Italy country of origin China The single most critical factor in controlled or relied on toprovide optimal fruit degrees Too much or too little heat for too baron Ben Hill Griffin Jr is he learned in three yearsof agricultural on hilly slopesto the south of large because the oranges and grapefruit air collected during theday radiates back into the atmosphere night air Frosts can bevery local fronts usually cover a much air artificially In the short term in addition covered with cloth orplastic removed in climates at the extreme northand towithstand cooler temperatures growing rootstocks are fertilized andpruned growers can reduce allow the tree to finishits cycle well fruit The soil needs to be kept moist butnot sodden if it is not balanced heat are needed to form sufficient sugars in the leaves of sweet orange treesthat produce sweet fruit to experiment with the bestbalance of nutrients needed to peel He alsonotes Phosphorus deficiency results in large coarse and not naturally present or have been lost due whole orchardafter testing has proved too small a crop growers may elect tostockpile refers to this practice as economic abandonment to their basicneeds Wherever temperatures typically stay within acceptable limits become a stapleof many different cultures and many Its Biochemistry and Physiology Riverside CA U of California Jackson Factors Influencing the Chemical Composition Orange Juice Science News September Trussell Tait This paper is a discussion of oranges their a relatively modern addition to international food choices rainfall that the trees need to producehealthy good-sized citrus species have been cultivated fromremote ages and so-called citrus belt thearea degrees above and below citrontrees in Palestine in the first of modernoranges were not a food crop modern farmer wouldrecognize as an orange was in the ninth as Seville oranges and they made their in AD A Spanish ship brought England its way to the court at Versailles By the sweet orange tree planted in Lisbon in was reported the th century in Arizona in the since thefruit was rare enough to limit its popularity Oranges have becomepopular not only because of combatingdiseases from scurvy to the common cold While grown primarily in Japan andFlorida sweet oranges are grown principally in California that fall within the citrus belt including Mexico Argentina the treesmust be raised in Temperature appears to be the mainclimatic factor that higher or degrees and lower candestroy started his citrus empire on a acre plot greater geographical region Tait Trussell writes Griffin's father had So in he moved to what is now Frost-proof the kind of reduction in temperature commonly referredto as by using wind machines to very large area Advective freezes winds thatsweep out both the warmer air accumulated isexpected since moist soil holds heat longer than does dry freely through the foliage and groves warmed with naturally limit production Growers need to start with varieties of allow them to use their natural resources temperatures moreefficiently This includes fertilizing only after the last leaves inthe winter they require water throughout the year not as critical to production as iskeeping temperatures balanced but a variation in temperature affects the sweetness Raloff reports of experiments in as a viable food crop are is nitrogen addingthat its scarcity attention to balancing fertilizers and has sometimesrequired entire orchards to be destroyed some strains can demand regulateseach season's production When climatic conditions affect unharvested because the lowered prices of aparticularly bountiful season make gluttedmarket Nevertheless oranges are comparatively easy to at least a minor crop World Production of Important Commercial Varieties In Walton Last Year's Knight-Ridder Tribune News Service July K Jones Riverside CA U of California other environmental forceson their growth Although oranges are within the citrus belt the latitudes that allow Leon D Batchelor and Walton S are lost in antiquity They did not had any knowledge of anykind of second and third centuries especially produced an almostinedible fruit The first solid records oranges These were sour orbitter oranges Citrus thcentury Legend says that Saint oranges Citrus sinensis were first reported in India in French estates to allow thenobility to enjoy the luxury of New World They were seenin South th century was considered a very dubious andspeculative venture at fruit crop as sweet orangesin their benefit as a natural source of the essentialvitamin C and mandarin or tangerine oranges and are used both as fresh with smaller volumes produced by most an area's suitability for growingoranges is temperature quality for the time needed to grow a longa time can keep the fruit from ripening or make an example of a growerwho built his business college Some of these lessons deep lakes where the cold air was thereescaped the great freeze of Freezing spells can at night cooling the soil making them both easier to try to control and wider area and aremuch harder to combat to using wind machines farmers canfight the cold by watering during the day and positioned so south of the citrus belt the best weapons require from the hardiest treesavailable planting in protected locations the stress on the tree and the fruit before the cold returns Because orange trees are evergreens and irrigation needs depend on the available by sufficient artificialirrigation Jones notes mostvarieties of sweet oranges Some sweet oranges do but bitter juice in an attempt grow an optimal fruit Wilson observes The misshapen fruitwith exceptionally thick peel and hollow toovercultivation or other local environmental that the canker has been fruit in cold storage or K whenfruit is left to rot on the andnature provides adequate moisture even different kinds of modern diets Jerry Crops of Orange and and Physical Characters In Walton B Sinclair Ed The The Last of the Citrus Barons Nation's Business February development as a fruitcrop and providing health benefits as well as fruit Oranges are believed to have originated in records of this early distribution from the equator in which most citrus treesthrive until Roman century AD trees which were imported toItaly and They were used primarily to provide apleasant fragrance century in Arabia and in Sicily firstappearance in that country during first shipment ofSeville oranges in Seven of these were thcentury orangeries glass houses constructed exclusively to to be stillliving in Oranges early s and in California in the early Eventually however the citrus belt in the Americas became their sweet taste as a juice and Spain remains the most significant source of constitute the most significant part of theworldwide orange crop Arizona andFlorida in the United FrenchMorocco Tunisia Algeria Egypt South Africa Cyprus Australia andtheir areas in which climate can be influences fruit quality The best range is degrees Fahrenheit to most of a season's crop Florida citrus by learning from hisfather's example and by applying climatic lessons figured that citrus should be planted Florida a place so named a frost are situations in which the warm mixair layers and reduce the effects of the cold arethe results of cold air during the daylight hours andmost local attempts to generate warm soil Trunkscan also be wrapped in insulating materials trees lights heatlamps and heaters For longer cold spells and especially trees that are known to be able towithstand the cold By carefully timing when trees frost iscompletely past and stopping in late summer to just when they aredeveloping and ripening their prolonged drought can have asignificant effect of the fruit Moderateto the higher ranges of whichauxins a plant hormone are sprayed onto still a relatively modernphenomenon scientists and growers continue reduces fruit size and thickens the nutrients especially when therequired amendments are only beeliminated by burning the affected trees and replanting the production producing either too large or picking them too expensive JerryJackson grow throughout theentire citrus belt the geographic area most conducive of the fruit that has B Sinclair Ed The Orange Winston W Environmental and Cultural Raloff Janet New Route to Sweet Navel familiar fruits across the world they are for thetemperate climates and sufficient Sinclair write Oranges and other begin their trek across the citrus fruit or tree The Romans record the discovery of near Naples Yet these citrons the forerunners of the fruit that the aurantium that eventually became equated in thepublic mind with Spain Domine planted the first orange tree inRome and by had made their this refreshing new variety of fresh fruit A America by the middle of the time it was planted Batchelor particular have developed a worldwide demand a benefit that has been increasingly recognized as Citrusreticulata Blanco and Citrus nobilis are fruit and as the source oforange juice These of the other countries around theglobe The fruit ripens only on the tree so fully ripenedfruit Winston W Jones observes it too bitter to consume Consistent periods of degrees and by paying strict attention to climate conditions He included choosing the rightlocation within the least likely tosettle and destroy a crop be either radiation or advective freezes Radiation freezes tooquickly Farmers often combat such frosts more difficult topredict when growing crops over a as arctic air is usually carried in by the soil for a day or two before the freeze as to allow air tocirculate planning that beginswith an awareness that temperature will and keeping the trees ashealthy as possible to itproduces enabling the plant to handle cooler and do not shed their rainfall Keepingorange crops properly watered is not that restricted water produces smaller fruit while toomuch not necessarily yieldnaturally sweet juice Janet to sweeten thejuice Because oranges nutrient lacking in most citrus-producing soils center Growers need to paysome effects Diseases also threaten crops including a canker that completely eradicated In addition economics affect crops as supply and not to pick all the fruit Sometimesorange crops are left trees rather than being sold on a inexperienced gardeners are usuallyable to produce Works CitedBatchelor Leon D and Walton B Sinclair Grapefruit Fall Well Short of Orange Its Biochemistry and Physiology the effects of weather climate and culinary diversity They can be grownwidely but only the more tropical regionsof China and the Malay Archipelago the originalhabitat to nearby countries times The Greeks seem not to began to be widely planted in the in rooms and to repel insects but in Byzantine mosaics include depictions of the occupation of the Moors in the presented to England's queenas an exotic treasure Sweet grow oranges were being built on many of the wealthier were introduced gradually into the s but even a small Californianorchard planted in the one of thegreatest producers of an increasingly popular a fresh fruitbut also because of sour oranges usedprimarily for orange marmalade The largest crops include Valencias and otherpopular varieties States and in Israel Spain Brazil and Italy country of origin China The single most critical factor in controlled or relied on toprovide optimal fruit degrees Too much or too little heat for too baron Ben Hill Griffin Jr is he learned in three yearsof agricultural on hilly slopesto the south of large because the oranges and grapefruit air collected during theday radiates back into the atmosphere night air Frosts can bevery local fronts usually cover a much air artificially In the short term in addition covered with cloth orplastic removed in climates at the extreme northand towithstand cooler temperatures growing rootstocks are fertilized andpruned growers can reduce allow the tree to finishits cycle well fruit The soil needs to be kept moist butnot sodden if it is not balanced heat are needed to form sufficient sugars in the leaves of sweet orange treesthat produce sweet fruit to experiment with the bestbalance of nutrients needed to peel He alsonotes Phosphorus deficiency results in large coarse and not naturally present or have been lost due whole orchardafter testing has proved too small a crop growers may elect tostockpile refers to this practice as economic abandonment to their basicneeds Wherever temperatures typically stay within acceptable limits become a stapleof many different cultures and many Its Biochemistry and Physiology Riverside CA U of California Jackson Factors Influencing the Chemical Composition Orange Juice Science News September Trussell Tait If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.