Florida Oranges

One of our reporters had a pleasant interview with Rev. Henry Gelston, of Deland, Florida, who is visiting his family on E. Washington st. Mr. Gelston owing to ill health went to Florida some years since and finding the climate just what he needed to complete restoration of his health started an orange grove and added thereto until he had a property valued at $10,000 and a erop on the trees worth at least $4000. Then the ter rible freeze-up carne to Florida last Feb ruary, and this vaiuable grove and fruit were entirely ruined. The great orange industry of the State so Mr. Gelston says is so complete ly wiped outthatit will taKe many years to revise it. Asa result the large ma jority of producers will go out of the business. Mr. Gelston has studied the history o the cliinate of Florida for a period o fully a hundred years, and has learnec that only during a few seasons has the temperatura been low enoughto injure vegetation. Well knowning that the value and deraand for Florida orange will be very largo, he will eemmonce anew the eultivation of the fruit. He believes that by grafting on the wild orange stock, he can producá a croj again in three or four years. The price will of course be advanced owing to the scarcity ol the yield in the state He thinks, therefore, that he wil in a few years regain what he has lost The severe frost of last December dit but little injury to the erop because the trees were in a dormant state, but in February the trees were filled with sa and were beginning another year growth, and when the frost struck thern they were killed to the very roots.