Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . s are devoted to its culture there. Frosts damage the plants some-times, but they soon recover. In central Florida, many acres are grown THE CENTURYS PROGRESS IN FRUIT CULTURE 489 under sheds. These are made of frame-work, which is covered with slats orboughs as a protection from frost. Upwards o
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . s are devoted to its culture there. Frosts damage the plants some-times, but they soon recover. In central Florida, many acres are grown THE CENTURYS PROGRESS IN FRUIT CULTURE 489 under sheds. These are made of frame-work, which is covered with slats orboughs as a protection from frost. Upwards of 3,000,000 fruits of market-able size are now produced in Florida annually. Other Fruits. — The date is just beginning to be set in the arid regionsof Arizona and southern California, and with good prospects of many trees are in bearing, and the fruit is of excellent choicest varieties have been imported from Africa. The guava is bein°-grown in the warm parts of Florida and California. The mango has beenfruited in the warmest parts of Florida and California. Nuts. — The sweet almond of southern Europe has long been tested inAmerica, but nowhere with success except in California, where there arealmond orchards of several hundred acres each. The Persian (wrongly. Yrfe- - \
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