CHAPTER XXIII. 



CROPS THAT MAY BE GROWN AMONG THE ORANGE 



TREES. 



HE question is often asked, " How can I make 

 a living while the orange trees are coming 

 into bearing?" The answer is, " Just as you would 

 make a living if you were doing nothing else but 

 farming or gardening, or growing fruits that come in 

 bearing sooner than the orange. ' ' If you are a 

 city clerk, and know nothing about hoeing and 

 plowing and chopping, you would find it rather 

 tough, for the first year or two, to make your bread 

 in the valley of the Nile, or your meat and bread in 

 the blue-grass region of Kentucky. In either case 

 you would have to deny yourself, for a year or two, 

 of " luxuries" dear to you, among the most valued 

 of these, otium cum dignitate. You would have to 

 pull off your coat and go to work. You would 

 have to consult the natives to learn practical and 

 common sense, and you would be surprised at the 

 profound depth of your ignorance of the means of 

 making the bread you have been eating all your 

 life. But knowledge, even this humble knowledge, 

 is good for the soul and the man. And you can 

 learn, and even learn to love to work. The sweet 



