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Fruit Culture In Florida

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
November
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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iMward King, m his "Great South " paper in the November Scrïbner's says : But very little capital is needed for the starting of a grove, and the rewards of a successful one are very great. Oranges sell at from $25 to f68 per thousand in Jaoksonville, and are readily transportable to any of the Atlantio eeaporte. When the necessary dredging and building of cañáis has been so that the Indian river may have an outlet via the St. John's, the North will be supplied with oranges of more delicate texture than any it has yet seen ; and the number of groves aiong the river will be legión. The fitness of Florida for the growth of tropical and tropical fruits is astonishing. Not only do the orange, the lemon, the lime and the citrón flourish there, but the peach, the grape, the fig, the pomegranate, the' plum, all varieties of berries, the olive, the banana, . and the pine-apple grow luxuriantly. Black Hamburg and white Muscat grapes grow finely in the open air ; the Concord and Scuppernong are grown in vast quantities. The guava, the tamarind, the wonderful alligator pear the plantain, the cocoanut and the date, the almond and the pecan luxuriate in Southern Florida. We have within our boundaries a tropio land, rich and strange, which will in future years be inhabited all winter long by thousands of families, and where beautiful towns and perhaps cities will spring up.

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Michigan Argus