SOIL.
 The soil of the glades is noted for its extreme fertility
and productiveness. Where drained by natural causes and
where reclaimed by artificial means, these soils have pro-
duced phenomenally heavy crops of sugar cane, corn, oats,
rice, tobacco and fruits.
 The soil is from two to twelve feet deep-a black mould,
underlaid with marl. The natural growth is saw grass, flags,
rushes, willows, cypress, gum, maple and oaks, together with
palmetto, rubber trees, ferns and tropical jungle. Much the
largest part of the territory is covered with a rank growth
of saw grass, with no timber or stumps.

 CLIMATE.
 The territory owned by this company is situated on both
sides of the 26th parallel of latitude, extending some thirty
miles on either side thereof. Frosts are practically unknown
in this territory. The great freezes of 1886 and 1894-95
failed to kill the most tropical plants, as is evidenced by the
enormous size of purely tropical trees, such as the rubber
tree, the sapadillo, maume apple, lime, lemon and mango,
now growing on these lands.

 SUGAR CANE.
 The prime agricultural crop of the company will be
sugar. The soil is particularly adapted to this plant. The
lands being level are peculiarly fitted .for sugar fields and for
the use of modern appliances-the steam plow and culti-
vator. Cane is now growing in this district planted ten years
since. Cane averaging 17 per cent. sucrose has been pro-
duced on similar lands in Florida, 136 miles north of this
section.
 CROPS.
 On similar soil, reclaimed by the same process (136
miles north of these lands, 2J degrees), crops of cane aver-
aging 40 tons of cane per acre have been made; at different