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THE CUB A U E V I E W 



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A Four- Year-Old Grapefruit Tree, Showing Fruit, Bartle. 



zation, and especially, of spraying. Thus the grapefruit grower has to go to heavy 

 expense for spray materials and machinery for their application, in order to produce 

 a fruit that is clean, free from discolorations and scale, and that is smooth skinned 

 and attractive, in order to compete with the fruit of the United States; and after 

 the greatest care on his part, it often happens that weather conditions have been 



