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Show Growth of Orange Industry. It Is K-'t alb known that Spain supplies America with most of the oranges wo eat. hut few peoplo are aware how enormous tho Industry has become. Tho Spanish orange region extends, however, over eastern nnd southern Cuta'onln, Valencia, Allcan te, Murciu, Malaga and Sevlllo and Id parts of Y.ilercln nnd Murcla the trees now grow hi forests, the soil of the famous Valenclan "huertn," lavishly manured with guano, being the richest In Kuropo. Hero a slnglo full grown tree will yield 1 Sun. nnd at times as many as l.bOO o'utigcs In a season, fruit hearing beginning when tho trees reach their sixth year, and In creasing unMl they aro twenty, when degeneration usually sets In. |