FLORIDA.


of his vast estate, with its multiplied interests,
upon the resident agent, Mr. J. E. Ingraham, a
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is not many years sine
graham came to Florida in what was supposed
final stage of consumption; yet no one, to see
would suppose that he had not always been in t
ment of vigorous health. He is also the Presidi
South Florida Railroad.
 Another energetic and enterprising citizen of


to whom the people of the city and of the grant
of all Orange County-are much indebted, is M
H. Sawyer, of Massachusetts (a resident of Sanf
1875), proprietor of the "City Hotel" and owner
the finest gardens in the State. This garden alon
strating as it does the feasibility of a first-rate


devolves
native of
ce Mr. In-
to be the
him now,
he enjoy-
ent of the


SSanford,


-in fact,
r. George
ord since
of one of
e, demon-


vegetable-


garden in South Florida, entitles him to special mention.
During the entire winter his hotel tables are loaded with
the best of squashes, cabbages, celery, cauliflower, peas,
string-beans, tomatoes, potatoes, radishes, beets, etc., daily
culled from the garden. His efforts in displaying Orange
County resources at the recent State Fair in Jacksonville
(season of 1880-'81) had great effect in directing thither
the tide of immigration that is now flowing in; and he is
a prominent mover in all local enterprises.
 On the 22d of February, 1881, a county fair was held at
Sanford, which was peculiarly interesting as a display of
what this portion of Florida can do in the way of midwin-
ter products. Instead of describing it myself, I will quote
some passages from a report prepared by Dr. J. L. Richard-
son, who spent the winter in Orange County, for the Mount
Sterling (Kentucky) "Democrat." He says:
 "This exhibition was projected as a county fair, to ex-
hibit to the country the actual products of Orange County,
in the midst of the severest and most protracted winter the
States have ever experienced, and place upon record such


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