FLORIDA.


superior flavor ; and these are so accessible that the canning
of them would prove a profitable occupation. Turtling is
carried on to some extent and proves quite lucrative. The
river is separated from the Atlantic by a narrow strip of
land from one to three-fourths of a mile in width, the ma-
jority of which is poor sand-scrub, though it contains bod-
ies of very rich hammock. Approximating thus near the
Atlantic, it has the benefit of the sea-breeze in its pure
state, and this, combined with the mild, genial climate of a
southern latitude, is what renders it so famous for health
-such a thing as sickness being scarcely known upon the
river.
 The pine-lands largely predominate, some of very fair
productive quality, with beautiful sites immediately upon
the river having an altitude of eight to sixteen feet above


the water. There are also f
hammocks peculiarly adapt
fruits, the leading varieties
lime, citron, banana, plantai
ate, tamarind, sapodilla, avo
apple, sugar-apple, mango,
English walnut, pecan-nut,
orange is the leading crop.
transplanting to commence 1
dollars per acre, and soon
ing been four to six thousa
one season. Bananas grow
nay from twelve-hundred to


Pineapples
per acre.


ine bodies of the most splendid
ed to the growth of tropical
of which are the orange, lemon,
n, pineapple, guava, pomegran.
cado-pear, French lime, mama-
papaw, cacao, date, cocoanut,
yam, ginger, cassava, etc. The
 It requires three years from
bearing, then pays hundreds of
runs to thousands, there hav-
nd dollars per acre realized in
considerably north of this, and
Stwo thousand dollars per acre.


promise from eight to twelve hundred dollars
Sugar-cane grows astonishingly, attaining a


height of twelve to sixteen feet, single stalks yielding more
than a gallon of juice, which, being boiled down, makes over
a quart of thick sirup, and produces five or six hundred gal-
lons of sirup per acre. Of peas and pumpkins two crops
from the same vine are raised in abundance, and potatoes