Polk County FlArchives News.....After The Freeze January 23, 1895
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Bartow Courier Informant January 23, 1895
The orange trees are budding rapidly and we can now see about what damage has 
been done.  The older trees are all coming out finely and will be in early 
enough for a fine crop of bloom.  The younger groves and even the nursery 
trees where they were in a good healty condition are alright.  It is a 
noticeable fact that groves which had been neglected much suffered far worse 
by the cold and some of them are dead.  

Our growers will learn a lesson from this.  Where the trees were in a high 
state of cultivation and fertilization both they seemed to have been little 
hurt.  Upon the whole as far as we can now see there is no serious harm except 
the loss of the present fruit crop and the setting back the growth of smaller 
trees and perhaps the total loss of young groves which were already more than 
half starved to death.  

Within two or three weeks the groves will be green and nearly all traces of 
the damage will have disappeared and the old time familiar Florida green will 
have driven away the blues.

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