14 FLORIDA.

quately in this summary fashion; and, as a matter of fact,
Florida has a soil in which can be grown every variety of
fruit, flower, garden-vegetable, field-crop, or forest prod-
 t


uct, that grows in any temperate or semi-tropical region
of the world. Every one has heard of its fabulous yield
of oranges, lemons, and the like; and the stories told on
this head are not always exaggerated. I have seen groves
of orange-trees which produced from two hundred to four
thousand dollars to the acre, and know of an acre of pine-
apples that, within two years after the trees were cleared
from its surface, yielded the owners (two bright young
New York lads, by-the-way) eighteen hundred dollars.
But these, and such as these, by no means exhaust the
list of valuable products which Florida yields to the cul-
tivator. I have seen fields of wheat rinening in January


that prod
produced
sugar-can
net profit
two hund
a net prol
that netti
melons ai
size, are o
markets,


uced twenty-eight bushels to the acre; corn that
in the same month seventy bushels to the acre ;
e that yielded one hundred and sixty dollars
to the acre; common Irish potatoes producing
hired bushels to the acre; fields of rice that paid
fit of two hundred dollars an acre; and cassava
ed a hundred and fifty dollars per acre. Water-


nd
)f
or


garden-vegetables grow rapidly, attain great
excellent quality, and, where convenient to city


to lines of


transportation, pay the


 from one hundred to one thousand dollars per
 garden-vegetables three and even four crops
\Pimes take from the same tract within twelve
 and of the entire list of strange or familiar
 garden products, fruits, and flowers, you may,
 through the State, find each and every one g
 abundance. The largest peach-tree, undoubtedly
 ica, is near Orange City, in Volusia County, witl
 of branches over seven ty feet in diameter !
 Nor is this all. I have seen bean-vines in t


producer
acre. Of
are some-
months;
farm and
in a trip
rowing in
,in Amer-
a spread

heir third