Orange groves in Florida a profitable venture
The article describes Florida orange grove cultivation from land clearing to planting with five year stock, costs per acre for clearing and care, and expected yields. It notes prices for nursery stock, planting layouts, irrigation basins, and potential profits, plus observations on blooming and fruiting patterns and market notes on culls and marmalade use.
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Florida
John “A. Bleicher
Lakeland
Lake Highland Country Club
Hallam
Nature
Navel Orange Freak Unearthed in Grafted Tree
A fragment describes a bizarre orange growth called a navel orange as a freak of nature. It notes a twin aborted, a surviving bud, and grafting of freaks onto another stock to produce a semi dwarf navel orange tree.
An Inventor’s Mistake Card
A man struggles with temper while his wife heckles his self control and mocks the vow to reform. He derisively praises a talking collar button idea, burns his shirt, and leaps on it to prove his “easier” reasoning. The anecdote satirizes overconfidence in invention and impulse.
Cuticura remedy advertised for sore hands
An advertisement promotes Cuticura for sore hands, recommending hot soaks with Cuticura Soap then applying Cuticura Ointment and drying excess with tissue. Free samples offered at Cuticura Dept. X Boston. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 60. Also notes olive trees in Jerusalem’s Garden of Olives are over a millennium old and a lazy person sleeps.
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Dept. X
Boston
Garden of Olives
Jerusalem
Reflection on Popularity and Choice in Widowhood
A quoted 19th century reflection notes that popularity with a widow does not imply being her first choice. It urges banishing gloom, and to drill the mind to shut out evil thoughts in bright times. The author attributed is John Richard Green.
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Richard Green
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