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T.W. Moore: Treatise and Hand-Book of Orange Culture in Florida, Louisiana and Florida, 1886

   This hand-book,unlike those of Garey and Lelong elsewhere in this exhibit, is directed toward orange growers in Florida, with California merely as an afterthought. It, too, addresses all aspects of the orange industry, from seed to marketing, for that part of the country.

   In his preface, Rev. Moore waxes poetic on the challenge and reward of growing oranges: “I do not know but that the toil and waiting demanded by the orange does not increase the ardor of the planter, and increase his pleasure when once the tree has been brought to full beauty and bearing, for we love best those that need to be courted earnestly in order to be won."

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