FLORIDA.


id the mistakes
more specific an
wer must provide
hensive treatise.*
LOCATION.-This


that are most commonly made; but,
d minute details, the proposed fruit-
himself with a trustworthy and corn-

is the most important consideration in


starting a grove. With proper care oranges will grow in
almost any part of Florida, but it is wise to select a location
which combines the largest possible number of favorable


conditions.
enemy of 1
been ragin
the State
so it is sa
confidence
frost is v


As I have already
e orange-grower, an
for several years be
to what is called a
,orange-culture can
n the returns, while


slight.


said, cold is the greatest
d a fierce controversy has
tween different sections of
"frost-line," above which,
not be pursued with any
below it the danger from


This line is usually placed


twenty-eight
living south
that during
nearly all th
diably spoile
north of the
a large majo
cated above


h or twenty-ninth
of the "frost-line"
the severe winters
e fruit in the secti
d and lost. On th
line call attention
rity of the old and
the supposed line


larger portion of the "Florida or
years, and are still, furnished by


degree of latitude. Those
direct attention to the fact
of 1876-'77 and 1880-'81
on north of it was irreme-
e other hand, those living
to the undeniable fact that
Productive groves are lo-
 and that immensely the
ranges" have been for many
this section. It is difficult


to reach any definite conclusions regarding the matter,f as


 Much the best work on the subject is Rev.
and Handbook on Orange-Culture in Florida," of
enlarged edition has just bacn published by E.
Street, New York.
 t My own personal opinion is that it is, to say
as far south as possible. There can be no dot
rarer in the more southern portions of the pcninsu
as many risks as possible, even if it be admitted
State is wholly exempt from frost. Moreover, thi
semi-tropical fruits the culture of which may be


T. WV. Moore's "Treatise
which a new, revised, and
R. Pelton & Co., 25 Bond

Sthe least, prudent to get
ubt that killing frosts are
ila, and it is well to avoid
d that no portion of the
ere are other tropical and
profitably combined with


avo
for
gro
pre


at the