FLORIDA.


The "Spring Garden House," quite a cozy, home-


like, well-built hotel, is kept by Mr. E.
awake Chicago hotel-man. It stands i
grove, surrounded by a number of pre
for invalid guests. A landing-pier a
have been built at Spring Garden Lake,
where the St. John's River steamers land
gers. Quite a number of families have
and form an unusually select and refine
crimination being exercised in the sale


M. Turner, a wide-
n a large orange-
!tty hotel-cottages
nd packing- house
two miles distant,
goods and passen-
their homes here,
d community, dis-
t of lands. Their


homes are noticeably well constructed, and have an air of
settled improvement, surrounded by lawns, gardens, and
groves, grape-arbors, fences, etc. In the evening quite a
party of the residents met us at the hotel, and a very pleas-
ant, entertaining time was enjoyed. Accompanying the
Major to his hospitable residence near by, I had the pleas-
ure of feasting on a heaping dish of freshly-picked straw-
berries, and partaking of some excellent samples of orange-
wine.
 The next morning we drove to the immense orange-


groves owned by Major Norris. He has 11,
mostly on hammock-lands, which are nearly all
in fact, he gathered last winter upward of 460,(
3,100 boxes! In time that grove will produce
yielding a princely revenue. The trees were
sour stumps budded with sweet fruit. The M
"In a few years I will show the visitor here
five miles long, lined with solid orange-groves all
and I think it quite likely that such a spectacle
be seen. At the house of Mr. B. F. Haynes we
ed on delicious bananas; and another resident


000 trees,
I bearing;
00, filling
e millions,
nearly all
[ajor said,
an avenue
the way,"
may then
were feast-
whom we


met was Professor Isaac Stone, who was for years United
States consul at Singapore. His wife, Mrs. Stone, is the
author of a standard work on India-" India and its
Princes."


shade.