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bounden duty to give full warning that though an orange 

 grove is a glorious thing to own, and will give its possessor 

 competence and wealth, it is not to be obtained without 

 time, labor, and patience, or their equivalent in money. 

 The latter, when the settler is fortunate enough to be able 

 to purchase a grove ready made. 



And right here is another point to which we would call 

 attention : 



We often hear complaints of the * ' high prices " asked 

 for bearing groves; now, these so-called high prices are, 

 as a rule, very low prices in reality, when one stops to 

 consider the years of toil and care and perseverance that 

 have gone to " make" each grove, through all the time of 

 their slow growth; not only so, but what of the actual 

 money value of said grove? 



Why does the would-be purchaser want to buy? 



Because he expects a good income, from his grove ? Ex- 

 actly so. And now we will ask one more question : 



If he went to an office where annuities were sold, would 

 he expect to purchase an annuity, annually increasing in 

 amount, for a mere nothing ? Scarcely ! 



Yet that is just what these men who are not willing to 

 pay a fair price for an orange grove are seeking to do. 



