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cold, stern facts that ever beset the business life of man 

 come to the surface, and he learns that some money, more 

 time and labor, muscle, patience, and perseverance are 

 necessary before his embryo grove becomes self-sustaining. 



It is not play to plant and conduct an orange grove from 

 infancy to bearing and paying maturity, and it is because 

 the idea that it is all play, all "fun," to "make a grove" 

 has been so prevalent, that there have been so many disap- 

 pointments, so many discontents returning to the North 

 with the report that " orange groves are humbugs." 



The more thoroughly the incoming settler realizes that 

 orange and other fruit growing is a regular business, re- 

 quiring, like other business pursuits, the investment' of 

 more or less capital, and a good deal of care, time, judg- 

 ment, and perseverance the more thoroughly he realizes 

 this, we say, the better prepared he will be to meet and 

 conquer the various vicissitudes and drawbacks that are 

 sure to occur during the long years of work and waiting 

 that must be encountered before he can sit down at last 

 for the rest of his life in the enjoyment of a good and 

 steadily increasing income. 



Far be it from our wish to discourage the would-be 

 orange grower, rather would we urge him who seeks health 

 and competence, aye, more, wealth, to come to Florida 

 and make unto himself a " Fortunatus' purse" of the 

 golden orange, but we would have him come realizing that 

 here, as elsewhere, the great law of nature, which decrees 

 that nothing that is worth the having can be obtained with- 

 out toil and patience, is in full operation. 



So many have come to Florida full of enthusiasm, full 

 of the idea that it was only necessary to stick the trees in 

 the ground, any where and anyhow, and then sit with 

 their hands in their pockets, as it were, for a year or two, 

 in order to reap a full grown fortune, that we feel it our 



