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treat at once. Study your soil, note what it is de- 

 ficient in, and supply the deficiency. 



Your grove having come into bearing, your toil 

 is over and your fortune made. You can now have 

 the pleasure of eating this most healthful of fruits 

 of your own raising. An eminent physician has 

 said that if each of his patients would eat an orange 

 in the morning before breakfast, his practice would 

 soon be gone. If France is sought by the invalid 

 for the grape cure, Florida will be resorted to for 

 the orange cure as well as for its unrivalled climate. 



Do not be afraid of glutting the market with 

 the orange ; it can never be done. There are thou- 

 sands of persons who have never seen an orange, 

 and many more who have to pay exorbitant prices 

 for them where they are rarely seen. If there is a 

 supply the demand will be created. When Florida's 

 oranges are counted by the hundred million she 

 will have adequate means for transporting them to 

 the best markets and to all markets, without a doubt. 

 The people of this country know very little about 

 eating the orange. They have not yet acquired a 

 taste for this queen of all fruits. 



If the orange growers of Europe find it profitable 

 to send their indifferent fruit to us, after having to 

 pay a tariff (for which we are indebted to General 

 Sanford of this State), how much better can we 

 afford to sell at home, even for the same price. 



The above-named gentleman, after his tour 

 through the orange- growning portions of Europe, 



