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Show ga. - - Orange a Long-lived Tret. The orange is tho longest-lived frntl tree. It begins to boar the third year after, budding and for a hundred years It will yield abundant crops. Orange trees havo been known to attain to th ripe ago of 300. The orange requires less care and attention than any other fruit tree. IU early growth Is rapid. In the first two years it grows more than it will in tho next 50. This refers, re-fers, of course, to Its height and breadth alone; Us fruit atoms and consequently its crops Increase more rapidly after the first ten years. , |