THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. 41 eat and finest of all having but recent- ly been built. It is 50x100 feet, while the older ones are each 25x50 feet. In these houses are to be found nearly every plant that grows. They contain more than ten thousand pots, and many unpotted plants are growing in the ground. A large proportion of the contents of these plant houses are there oni temporarily; at the proper time they will be planted in the grounds. One particular curiosity is a coffee tree in bearing. About one hundred acres of tlhe place is under cultivation. A large tract of dense hammock has been left in its virgin state save that is traversed by seven miles of foot paths. which wind in and out among the oaks. pines, mag- nolias, palmettoes and underbrush. Along these paths have been planted rare plants and shrubs. The larger trees are thickly draped with Spanish moss, making an effect at once trop- ical and beautiful. yet weird, "Hiawatha" borders for half a mile or more upon Lake Minnehaia, a bean- t'ful body of water, and on the shore is a tine boat house. A pond in the in- terior of the grounds is fringed with lotus. Zanzibar lilies and other acqua- tic plants. On the lawns about the house and on the shore of Minnehaha there is a heavy turf, and as spring ap- proaches they will Iw clothed with green. The drives, walks and lawns are kept with scrupulous neatness. There is a pumping plant on the shore of the lake. which is connected with a system of pipes and hydrants. to deliver water to any part of the place. A drouth is impossible at "Hia- w.-tha." This irrigating plant alone cost S7,000. The entire place is enclosed by a fence of wire strung through iron posts set in cement blocks. That portion of it lying along tihe highway Is covered with vines of the Cherokee rose. whi-h when in bloom makes a most beautiful effect. The 'grove which covers about sixty acres, is one of tile finest in the country. and before the great freeze 10o.401 boxes of fruit have been taken from it in a single season. Like nearly all other groves ill Florida i: was prac- tically wiped out by the freeze. But it was not abandoned. The shoots were cnareflly nurted i1nd as i result the "'Hiawatha" orange grove is fast re- covering its old time glory and is al- ready a most valuable property. A large portion of the trees have al- ready reached the bearing stage and next year an immense crop may be ex- pected. This season the crop will amount to about :35- boxes. The resus- citalton of this grove involved no nn- usnal outlay. It resulted simply from a determination to make the west of the situation and build up a new grove from what was Ilt.. The result is an object lesson of thilt, less courageous orange growers who abandoned their groves to sawgrass and brambles. Anv number of these pitiful runlns of form- er beautiful grov s may be found with- in a few m'les of the Dommericli grove. all of which might. with proper care. have been brought bha k to life. The ltonlnierichl grove has about 3.0(10 trees of thle ordinary varieties anti 30 or more of tle rarer kinds. such as tangerines. mandarins. etc. There are alto lhout 700 grapefruit trees and eighty of the queer little kumquats. tlhe latter being loaded with their strange fruit. There is on the place a complete or- ange packing house, which is provided with all the mo-t approved facilities for sizing. grading. and packing or- anges. Upon tile whole, the Dommerich place is worth going a long way to see. -Orlando Aentinel-Reporter. - There is at !east one house in Tondon where youn will n soon see a python as a pe"aoe.k' f. father. says thle On- looker. Tlhe. 'lra-ing-room was once decorated w:ti a 'rieze of them. made into fans. a.il f inl that moment the Shadow of TDen't'i dclpow'nled on the house. Trihe ln'-' -- --' i'. 1'-; <"'t4'r :land two son. die, ilr little more than a year, and then anl explo,