FLORIDA.


river
where
worth
but it


growth
 It
guava.
like th
express
orange


is too high for


average


immigrant, especially


the land is uncleared and unimproved.
it-for the soil is undoubtedly rich-to
will bar out the industrious poor, and
Sof the region.
vas here I made my first attempt to eat a
 I failed miserably then, but have since
e fruit, and think it excellent. As a
sed it, "It's like eating a strawberry
, large as a pear," only the seeds are lik(


 It may be
the wealthy,
retard the


fresh-picked
e learned to
friend once
inside of an
e small shot.


Th
it
ba


e taste for this abund
must be acquired ;
cco, its acquisition is


 The next morning
bmakfast-peculiar in t


plant fruit is like that for tobacco-
but, as is seldom the case with to-
never regretted.
Mrs. Hatch served us an excellent
his, that it consisted almost wholly


of various kinds of garden fruits and vegetables, cooked
in divers ways, to show what an Indian River table can
supply. We visited several homes in the neighborhood,
everywhere meeting agreeable people, and were shown
wonderful gardens. All agreed that snakes and such
things were rarely seen, and that flies, gnats, or mosqui-


. .


toes were not unusually troubles
Poultry, eggs, fish, oysters, turtles
plentiful for special mention. Am
visited the Spratt orange-grove, one
ida, with one thousand trees growing
founder, Mr. Spratt, came here abo
old man, and with but little means
menced clearing the land all by I
a grove hard to surpass. The land
and rich; the trees all very uniform
thrifty, and laden with noticeably fi
flavored fruit. That grove is sure
an income of several thousand d<
it is an evidence of what one pool


om

onj


\


e in the summer.
and ducks are too
g other places, we
F the finest in Flor-
on ten acres. The
ten years ago, an
r money. He com-
nself, and now has
I quite clean, level,
size and shape, and


ie-looking and richly-
to produce henceforth
dollars annually; and
r old man can do by