302 FLORIDA FRUITS ODDS AND ENDS. 



there came a glut in the market, and prices fell, they 

 could be kept at home, and the wine made from them 

 would ultimately bring more profit than the oranges would 

 have done if shipped. 



As to the value and superiority of sweet (or sour) or- 

 ange wine, here is what a prominent dealer has to say 

 about it, and he speaks "as one having authority": 



"It is the best tonic, medical or otherwise, that can be 

 taken into the human system. It is nourishing, of agree- 

 able flavor,' and, what is more, a perfectly pure native 

 wine. Every body knows what recuperative power there 

 is in luscious, ripe oranges, and as no part of the fruit is 

 used in the manufacture of the wine but the pulp of per- 

 fectly ripe oranges, and none of the wine bottled from the 

 casks until it is at least three years old, it is easy to see 

 that the wine made from Florida oranges will, at no dis- 

 tant day, outrival any of the imported still wines. In 

 taste it is marvelously palatable, and I am told that it is 

 the cleanest wine in the market to-day, there being but 

 8.64 per cent of absolute alcohol, and slightly over 5 per 

 cent of sugar. Florida, filled with orange presses, will 

 outrival the famous vineyards of France and Italy in 

 time, for the manufacturers of this splendid wine are 

 pushing ahead with new and improved machinery, are 

 setting out countless orchards of the precious fruit, and 

 investing thousands of dollars in the enterprise which they 

 are satisfied will soon become one of the greatest industries 

 of the country. The supply is now in no wise equal to the 

 demand." 



THE ORANGE PEEL. 



This is another point that has not yet received the con- 

 sideration it deserves. 



In Europe the orange rinds are carefully gathered up 

 and sold to the marmalade manufacturers, and New York 



