Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — Oranges in Florida. [ARTICLE]

Oranges in Florida.

One side of a story is good until you have heard the other side. We denied the statement of a correspondent ol our morning contemporary who—that is, the correspondent—declared that oranges in Florida remained on the trees for a year, fresh and delicious at the end of the year as when they first ripen. And now comes an entirely reliable gentleman who says: “You doubt the statement of a Florida correspondent about ripe oranges hanging on the tree without decay for a year. As I have spent three winters in Florida allow me to say that correspondent is right. I, mysel'f, have eaten sweet oranges that have hung on the tree the year round, and have eaten sour oranges that have hung on a tree for two summers. These oranges that so hung are good, sound, juicy fruit. This was on Dunn’s Lake. Florida oranges that hang after the new crop starts lose their juice, which returns to the tree, and in the fall fill up with the juice like the new crop." —Cleveland (Ohio) Herald.