I've been talking just about the citrus fruits, the grapefruit and the tangeloes and oranges and all that.
Pretty much the same thing applies to all our crops down here.
We've as many blights and pests and weather-troubles as you have in the North.

And now and then, even in Dade County, we get a frost that does more damage than a forest fire." As she talked they passed out of the grapefruit grove, and came to a plantation of orange trees.
"These are the joy of Milo's heart," she said with real pride, waving her little hand toward the well-ranked lines of blossoming and bearing young trees.

"Last year he cleared up from this five-acre plot alone more than--" "Excuse me," put in Gavin.

"I don't mean to be rude.

But since he's made such a fine grove of it and takes such pride in its looks, why doesn't he send a man or two out here with a hoe, and get rid of that tangle of weeds?
It covers the ground of the whole grove, and it grows rankly under every tree.