Polk County FlArchives News.....Everything is Growing March 13, 1895
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Bartow Courier Informant March 13, 1895
The weather for several days has been all that could be wished.  Warm sunshiny 
days with just enough rain to make everything grow rapidly. The gardens are 
again becoming to be scenes of beauty.

Strawberries are in bloom and beans, peas, melons, corn, potatoes _ are up and 
doing finely.  The orange and grapefruit trees are budding out in fine shape.  
Many or them are coming out way up among the branches.  Tree right in the city 
are surprising everybody by the way they are budding forth.  We have 
personally inspected many of the trees which looked a few days ago as if they 
would never bloom again, and find that they are putting out so far up that it 
is not entirely vain to hope that many of them will be ready for a good crop 
of June bloom and certain it is that for the next year's crop the most of the 
larger trees will be all right again.

Enough can be seen now to justify the statement that not nearly so much damage 
has been done as appeared to be a few weeks since.

We know of instances were even small trees, which were wrapped, have survived 
and will only have to be cut back a little.  Taking a careful review of the 
situation as it now seems there is ground for a more cheerful feeling on the 
part of Polk county orange growers.  Twelve months from now the majority of 
people who own property of this kind the county will be better off than they 
were prior to the freezes.


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