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was demonstrated to the sorrow and dismay of thousands 

 of orange men that even half way down the peninsula was 

 not safe from frost, as in one night a cold blast from the 

 north came and the "big freeze" on which the pomologi- 



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cal chronology of Florida is founded, made hundreds of 

 families homeless and hopeless. In every fruit district in 

 fact it is expected at times to have an untimely frost cause 

 damage of greater or less extent to the fruit crops. 



