[Arid_gardener] Re: Artificial Orange Tree

[Olin Miller]

It appears that Frances meant to say "ornamental" orange tree.  Can somebody 
familiar with life span and care of sour orange trees comment.  I know here 
are many citrus trees grafted onto sour orange rootstocks that are well over 
40 years old but I have no experience wih the sour orange tree.

Olin
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Frances Hallman" 
<FrancesH at openworksweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:45 AM
Olin,
It is a real orange tree; my understanding was they are called
artificial because about the only thing you can use the oranges for is
marmalade.  Sorry if I don't have the name right.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Olin Miller [mailto:olindmiller at att.net]
To: arid_gardener at Ag.arizona.edu;
Frances Hallman
Subject: Re: Artificial Orange Tree
Please forgive me if I misunderstood the question but it dos not appear
to
have anything to do with gardening.  Seems to have more to do with home
decor.

Olin Miller, Master Gardener Volunteer
U of A Cooperative Extension, Maricopa County AZ
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----- Original Message ----- From: <francesh at openworksweb.com>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:18 AM>
> 85018
> I have an artifical orange tree that is about 40 years old.  The
leaves
> have become wrinkly and more sparse.  Can fertilizing help with this
> problem? Is there anything that can help the health of this old orange
> tree?