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does his wife, who has brought to him not only the 

 accomplishments of a sweet and cultivated woman, 

 but with herself an ample fortune. And though he 

 may have waited as long as Jacob did for his Rachel, 

 he does not regret the toil and waiting, since the 

 reward is ample. I do not know but that the toil 

 and waiting demanded by the orange does not 

 increase the ardor of the planter, and increase his 

 pleasure when once the tree has been brought to 

 full beauty and bearing, for we love best those that 

 need to be courted earnestly in order to be won. 

 When thus won we feel that the bride is the more 

 fully our own. 



HOW TO GROW THE ORANGE. 



Does the reader wish to know how to win this 

 fair bride clad in nature's richest green, adorned 

 with golden globes, crowned with fragrant orange r 

 blossoms her own fair crown, so often plucked 

 for other bridal wreaths ? 



The object of this book is to answer that inquiry. 

 Growing oranges in Florida for profit is no longer 

 a matter of experiment, as it was thought to be 

 when the first edition of this treatise was published 

 some years ago. The one million boxes shipped 

 last season demonstrates the practicability of suc- 

 cessfully growing oranges in Florida. The now 

 known superiority of the Florida fruit is fast driving 

 the foreign fruit out of the market, whenever and 

 wherever the Florida orange is in the market. 

 The successful shipping of oranges to Europe from 

 Florida shows the practicability of enlarging the 



