FLORIDA.


growing; and attention having been directed to it recently,
it will probably be extensively planted. It begins to bear


about
in th
very
to be
cay.
food,


t ten years from the seed, bears annually, a
e amount of product to the age of thirty
long-lived, some trees in Southern Europe
eight hundred years old and showing no
The fruit and the oil made from it are
and in demand for commercial purposes.


,nd increases
years. It is
being known
signs of de-
valuable as


 THE PINEAPPLE.-This delicious plant produces re-
markably fine large fruit in all portions of South Florida.
It is the king of tropical fruits. It is planted from the


CPL


A PurEAPPLE-PLANT.


suckers or shoots taken from the matured fruit and stock.
These can be purchased at from one and a half to two and
a half cents each; and about twelve thousand can be
planted on one acre, placed twenty to twenty-four inches
apart. They bear fruit in the twentieth month, and con-
tinue bearing all the year.
 The owner of a pineapple patch can have fruit every
day of the year. They require little or no care, nor very
rich soil, nor fertilizing; but they can not bear cold, and
care must be taken to protect them from frosts. An acre
is certain to produce six to ten thousand pineapples, which
sell readily at prices which make them a very profitable crop.


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