"Budded Orange trees will begin to bear six years from transplanting and a Seedling in eight, but the trees do not arrive at full bearing under twenty years, yet they are profitable at ten. From fifty to a hundred trees are raised on an acre; the value of an average crop on a tree is from five to ten dollars. They are sold to dealers either on the tree or packed in boxes. They begin to ripen in the fall - in October and November, and can be gathered at any time from November to March, and many of them will hang on the trees much later. They do not fall from the tree when they ripen, but will remain on the tree until spring. It is best, however, to gather in the late fall or winter as the trees begin to bloom again in February." So says Judge Cheney, of Winchester, Ohio.