. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIjSr 63, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. /-"T'lGADSDfN. 0 /^ < '-â i^. 1 l' 5 iWAKULLAli'/ either went north to engage in other enterprises or sought locations for their new groves farther south, where conditions were considered safer. Since many of the older groves haA'e been reestablished, the industry has become widely scattered over the State. Plantings now extend in a narrow fi-inge along the east coast, from St. Jolin County on the north to below ]\Iiami, in Dade County, and along the west or Gulf
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIjSr 63, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. /-"T'lGADSDfN. 0 /^ < '-â i^. 1 l' 5 iWAKULLAli'/ either went north to engage in other enterprises or sought locations for their new groves farther south, where conditions were considered safer. Since many of the older groves haA'e been reestablished, the industry has become widely scattered over the State. Plantings now extend in a narrow fi-inge along the east coast, from St. Jolin County on the north to below ]\Iiami, in Dade County, and along the west or Gulf coast they reach from Citrus County almost to the southern boimdary of Lee County. Extensive plant- ings extend diagonally across the State from Volusia County on the east to Hillsboro, Manatee, De Soto, and Lee Coimties on the west, including large sections of'Brevard, Orange, Lake, Sumter, Hernando, Pasco, and Polk Counties, in addition to those already mentioned. Sections in Marion, Alachua, Citrus, and Osceola Counties also are devoted to citrus fruits. Figure 1 shows a map of the State with the location of the citrus plantings indicated by shading. The difficulties of han- dling and marketing crops of fruit produced in groves scattered over so wide a ter- ritory are manifestly greater than where the plantations are confined to a more re- stricted territory. Where groves are located compara- tively close together, as was the case in many of the older citrus districts of Florida, a neighborhood competition is stimulated, especially in the produc- tion of clean, bright fruit of fine texture. There has probably never been a re- gion where so many varie- ties of oranges have been developed and tested as in what, before the freeze, were the old neighborhood centers of production, or where more strenuous ef- forts have been made to pro- duce fruit of fine texture and flavor. Moreover, a special effort was made to pack the fruit in an attractive manner and to have it reach the ma
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