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grown in these colonies. There is very little fear of over 

 production, the only serious competition would come from The Florida 

 Florida, but sometimes an occasional ice wave passes over 

 that country and kills back the orange orchards so that 

 several years must elapse before the trees recover from the 

 death of their principal branches. A writer, who published 



ORANGE. Citrus Aurantunn. 



a book on orange culture in Florida several years ago, said 



that " The present yield of fruit grown in the United States 



" furnishes hardly one orange a year to each inhabitant. Our tion of 



" population will nearly double, judging the future by the ?he"unltTd 



" past, in the next thirty or forty years. To furnish such a States. 



" population with one orange or lemon a day, will require no 



" less than thirty thousand millions of oranges or lemons per 



