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veloped in Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, 

 South America, China, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Sicily and 

 Asia Minor. The fruit is shipped from these countries 

 in great boatloads to the markets of the world. 



When Columbus and his men landed in America they 



Oregon raisin vineyard. 



found two kinds of citrus fruit growing in Florida, the 

 rough lemon of the Everglades and the sour orange of 

 the hummock lands farther north. When the Spaniards 

 came a little later they planted the seeds of their cultivated 

 oranges. From these seeds there developed the great seed- 

 ling orange groves of the South. At the present rime, 



