Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-03
FLORIDA rAlsrnoops.
A Great Cry and Little wool-Pismy
Production-shamsl Lying.


A lineal descendant Of Ananias and
Saphira in the Sanford (Fla.l Journal,
of March 18th, says.
1--WE are going to have q largo immi-
grafton to this State from Southern
California. A grower there ordered
box Of fruit from me and paid $3.50
express charges on it. just to show peo-
pie there. as he said, what poor fruit
they raised in California.
'frhere is flavor in Florida orange
that no other orange possesses, Land
is cheaper here than in Southern Cali
fornia and many orange growers are ex-
pected here from that State"
''He filed the reporters pockets With
golden fruit and the gentle youth hied
him hurriedly away
Further on in the article he says that
great shipping house had received an
order for 900 boxes Of oranges which
could not be filed. But we are pleased
to know the reporters pockets were
filed. He certainly showed signs of
being full" in peDning such an article.
The idea of large immigration into
Florida from Southern California is too
ridiculous to contemplate. Only one
person was ever known to remove from
this city to Florida, and he became
nearly bankrupt on account of the ex-
pense of quinine which he was obliged
to purchase for his family to break
up chills and fever. His experience
settled the question of emigration
from Southern California. and nobody
has gone there since from this region.
The cost Of cleaning off the trees and
roots from Florida land is greater than
the cost OF the same amount of land in
California. 1t is quite true that the peo.
pie of Southern California have sent to
Florida for oranges. to sample them. So
have they sent to Mexico, Nicara-
qua, Australia, Japan, China, the Sand
wich Islands, Malta, Spain, Cuba, Italy,
st. Michaels', and all orange-growing
countries for samples. The Southern
Californian gets the best of everything
he can find and produces the best fruit
from the best stock which the planet
affords. A sample of the Florida orange
was presented to the HERALD Office last
month. 1t was fair. handsome, large
sized fruit, sweet and juicy, but very
insipid. 1t had not 1.-THE Of the flavor
and aroma that the Los Angeles orange
possesses, even after it has been laid
away for three months.
Bot the idea that an order for 600
boxes was so large an amount that il
could not be filled in the fore part Of
March in that State, is laughable to an
Angelefo who could gather 600 boxes
from an acre Of land in any Of our hun
dreds OF orchards. Not only could an
order for 800 boxes be filled in Los An
geles, but 10000 boxes could be prompt
Iy filled and sent in any direction on
short notice, and the fruit would be
vastly superior to the Florida oranges,
Floridians themselves being judges. Los
Angeles oranges have been shipped
in each OF the twelve months of the
year. This year the Seeding orchards
are not blossoming so bountifully as last
year, but we have always observed that
the quality is better in these "of years" !"
with larger and more uniform sized
fruit that commands as much money as
the larger crop Of smaller fruit. The
budded orchards have no "off years, :"
but blossom heavily every year and bear
uniformly. The next crop will be am
pie for the wants Of the trade, and the
new orchards will swell the amount to q
larger quantity than was ever before
produced in the State. II these Florida
fellows need oranges, Los Angeles and
San Bernardino. counties can send over
100. 600 boxes cf them, all vaccinated, SO
as to Withstand yellow fever and other
luxurious temptations of that State, but
we have no need of the trashy oranges ol
In