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continually going. It is a great mistake to plow only with respect to 

 the grass. The intervals between cultivating should not be so great as 

 to give the grass an opportunity for growing. Where the ground is 

 frequently stirred there will be fewer insects, their eggs w r hich are often 

 deposited in the earth not being permitted to hatch. Examine your 

 trees often and closely. If insects attack them treat at once. Study 

 your soil, note what it is deficient 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 cat 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 thousands of persons who have never seen 

 an orange and many more who have to pay exhorbitant 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 

 growing portions of Europe, states that they claim to be able to raise 

 the orange profitably when getting only one dollar per thousand ; their 

 average price now being about three dollars per thousand. Is there 

 any probability of the luscious Florida orange being reduced to this 

 price, even if her market be restricted to the limits of America? But 

 the day is not far distant when our oranges will be found on the tables 

 of the rich in Europe in preference to the inferior fruit they now get 

 there. 



