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parts of central Florida in the matter of local or endemic species, and contrasting especially with the hammock belts in this respect.
 The pines are used for fuel, lumber, turpentine, etc., as in other regions, but have not been exploited quite so ruthlessly, whether wholly because of topographic difficulties or partly from a slight regard for the beauty of the scenery is not quite certain. Plans are just being perfected for utilizing the saw-grass, which abounds on thousands of acres of marshes, for the manufacture of paper. As in many other parts of Florida that are comparatively little cultivated, honey-yielding plants are numerous and abundant, but that fact doe's not seem to have been taken advantage of as fully as it might be.
 Population. The statistics of population are based on the returns for Lake County, which is wholly in this region, and Seminole and Orange, most of whose population is in it. No accurate estimates can be made for periods previous to 1887, when there: were great changes in county boundaries, but in 1890 there were 9 inhabitants per square mile in the area just defined. This increased, somewhat irregularly, to 19.4 in 1920. In 1910 the population was divided according to race and nativity into 57.5% native white, 3.3% foreign white, and 39.2% negro. The foreigners were mostly from England, Germany, Canada, Sweden, Scotland and Ireland. The, percentage of illiteracy at the same time was 1.9 among the native whites, 1.7 among the foreign whites, and 23.0 among the negroes.
 The incorporated cities and towns in 1915 were Lakeland, with 7,287 inhabitants (reported as having decreased a little by 1920, which is hard to believe); Orlando, with 6,448; Sanford, 4,998; DeLand, 3,490; Leesburg, 1,360; Winter Haven, 1,226; Eustis, 1,148; W\inter Park, 787; Lake Helen, 786; Winter Garden, 648; Mt. Dora, 615; Apopka, 598; Umatilla, 527; Auburndale; 511; Orange City, 506; Tavares, 449, and Haines City, 378.'
 The leading religious denominations among the whites in 1916 were Southern Methodist, Baptist, Southern Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Roman Catholic, Northern Methodist, Congregationalist, Northern Presbyterian, Seventh Day Adventist, Disciples of Christ, and Primitive Baptist. Among the negroes, Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal, A. M. E. Zion, and northern Methodist.