Lue Gim Gong and the DeLand Orange That Won the Wilder Medal
In 1911 an orange bred in a DeLand grove by a Chinese immigrant became the first citrus fruit to win the American Pomological Society’s Wilder Medal.
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Oranges by John McPhee: The Little Book That Makes Citrus Fascinating
It sounds impossible, a whole book about oranges you cannot put down, but John McPhee pulled it off, and much of the story is pure Florida.
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Through the Groves: Growing Up in a Florida That No Longer Exists
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist remembers her childhood riding shotgun through Central Florida’s citrus groves with her father, a fruit buyer armed with a pistol and a rattlesnake bite kit.
