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from orange culture, but it is pardonable ; for while 

 the orange is not so perishable as some other things 

 needing transportation, the increasing production 

 is such as will demand, in addition to semi-weekly 

 lines of steamers from Fernandina and Jacksonville 

 to New York, a daily orange train from Florida to 

 the North-west. 



