FLORIDA.


such a soil leaches very readily the soluble manure.


haps the best soil is found
deep soil underlaid with a
soil. The natural growth
abundance of live-oak and


in our
yellow
should
hickor


indicate an abundance of lime.
which the hickory is found mixed
subsoil, should rank first. Such
hammock and pine. Next to th
willow, oak, and black-jack. C
which such lands as the last tv
planted, the readiness with which
they deserve a high rank, and e
close at hand. In selecting a 1
lands, select that which is thick]
drained, and with a yellow sub
sionally dressed with alkaline n
admirably." Low pine-lands, call
avoided, and all lands which hav


or quicksand. The
rich hammocks, but
great age as on the
for transportation.
wood hammock-lan
other things being


ceptible of thorough d


I I


uark-gr
v clay or
I be tall
y, as sue
Of our
with the
a soil
is is thE
onsiderii
ro classes
the oran


ay nar
yello


amock with
w sand sub-


and large with an
h a growth would
pine-land, that on
Spine, with yellow
is really a mixed
e pine mixed with
ng the ease with
is are cleared and
ge grows on them,


especially if fertilizers are
location in the purely pine-
ly set with tall trees, well
soil. Such soils, if occa-


nan
ed'
Sa


ures, grow
'flat woods,
subsoil of


trees grow more vigorously


the orange
" should be
"hard-pan"
on the low,


it is thought that they do not attain such


high lands, and the
 Mr. Davis says, "
ds can be had, they
equal." No wet la


rainage-will do


fruit is less adapted
Where high, hard-
should be preferred,
nd-no soil not sus-
for orange-culture.


 PRICES OF LAND, CLEARING, ETC.-There is still much
land to be had in Florida at the Government price (one
dollar and twenty-five cents per acre), but these are rarely
so situated in respect to transportation facilities that it is
wise to put an orange-grove upon them. The price of land
held for sale by private parties ranges from five to one
hundred and twenty-five dollars per acre, the difference
being due mainly to greater or less nearness to settlements


or to lines of transportation.


Choice


"lake-fronts"