148 ORANGE CULTURE IN FLORIDA. 



alone, if such an establishment were erected, pay for 

 the cultivation of the grove and leave the fruit as a 

 clear gain. 



Such a business would be a source of vast wealth 

 to the firm which should engage in it with sufficient 

 capital and skill. These articles manufactured from 

 the citrus would be put in a durable form and 

 made ready for exportation to any part of the world. 

 With this profit added to the profit arising from the 

 sale of the fruit, at one cent for the orange and 

 half a cent for the lemon, the citrus crop in Florida 

 alone could, in a score of years, be made to exceed 

 the value of the entire cotton crop grown in the 

 South. Florida certainly has a bright future before 

 her if her sons are wise enough to labor for that 

 future. In her broad acres there is ample room, 

 not only for her natural and adopted sons, but for 

 the hundreds of thousands of their fellow-citizens 

 to whom these sons of Florida extend a hearty in- 

 vitation to come and occupy with them these broad 

 acres, this genial climate, and this vast wealth, 

 enough for all, and quite as good as can be found 

 this side of Heaven. 



