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wild sour orange trees. The early settlers in clearing out these thickets 

 left a part of the sour orange trees as near as possible in rows and 

 budded the sweet orange into these stocks just where they stood in 

 the hammocks. 



Pig. 109. — Orange trees budded on wild sour orange stocks as they were found 

 in a hammock near Orange Lake, Boardman, Florida. (Original.) 



For example, Mr. Sampson of Boardman, Florida, one of the early 

 growers, told the writer that about 1874 when he first cleared the land 

 for his grove, bordering what is known as Orange Lake, he found large 

 stumps of sour orange trees that had been killed back years before, 

 probably in the severe freeze of 1835. 



Fig. 110. — A typical hammock of cabbage palmetto and hardwood trees near 

 the east coast of Florida being cleared for a citrus grove. Citrus seed-beds in rows 

 in foreground. (Original.) 



