THE SANFORD


GRANT.


ticular comment, for others
quently beaten that score.
 Three miles from Sanford
the General, a fine estate of
acres, all fenced and under


, so


I was assured,


[is Belair, the
one hundred
the highest cu


are thousands of orange, lemon, and lime
apple-plants, including nearly every known
and hundreds of other foreign and native
fruits, and shrubs. A visit thither is very
a cordial welcome is extended to all.
 Indian-corn, sugar-cane, cotton, tobacco


have fre-


special grove of
and twenty-five
dtivation. Here
trees, and pine-
variety of these,
tropical plants,
interesting, and


, rice, strawber-


ries, cabbages, tomatoes, watermelons, and all garden prod-
ucts, yield immense crops in the soil around Sanford.
During last February-an exceptionally cold month for the
season-I visited a number of gardens, where the vege-
tables were growing just as finely, as rapidly, as prolifically,
and with as little requirement of labor, as in any soil, any-
where, at any season. From one garden, comprising three
quarters of an acre, four crops had been taken, during the
preceding twelve months, by using a moderate amount of
fertilizer. Think of that--four cro n one year !
 The "South Florida Journal," a well-conducted sheet,
owned and edited by two live newspaper-men from Ohio,
is published weekly at Sanford. The climate is pleasant,
and enjoyable all the year; there is no month that is spe-1


cially uncomfortable by reason of cold or heat
mosquitoes and gnats more aggravating than


nor are
wherever


they exist in other regions.
 The settlers on this grant are mostly recent arrivals, who
come from all parts of the country. Besides the foreign
colonies, there are colonies from New York, Ohio, and Wis-
consin. The Hon. Thurlow Weed, General O. H. Babcock,
Senator H. B. Anthony, and several other prominently
known gentlemen, own fine groves on the grant.
 General Sanford lives much abroad, and the management