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and of course the results are secured very much sooner, and
with less original outlay.
 At present the most successful vegetable-gardening is
done along the line of the Transit Railroad and on the
lower St. John's, near Jacksonville; but all portions of the
State are well adapted for it, and South Florida has a lit-
tle the advantage in the matter of earliness of season and
freedom from frost. Wherever transportation facilities are
secured, there "gardening for profit" can be undertaken
with confidence; and as most vegetables can be raised in a
young orange-grove without injury to the trees-with ben-
efit, if properly attended to-the development of the indus-
try will probably be enormous in the future when the North
has come to rely upon Florida for its early vegetables, and
when railway and steamer lines have prepared themselves
for the expeditious performance of the business.
 WHEN AND WHAT TO PLANT.-The following valuable
suggestions on this head are copied verbatim from the
official pamphlet prepared for and published by the State
Bureau of Immigration:

 "No precise instructions would be strictly applicable
for all parts of Florida; we give briefly what may gener-
ally be safely adopted for Florida say at and north of lati-
tude 29 ; south of 29 a year's experience and information
will safely guide. One thing is favorable: the period of
planting any special crops covers weeks and months, so that
failure from exceptional circumstances need not occur.
 "In January plant Irish potatoes, peas, beets, turnips,
cabbages, and all hardy or. semi-hardy vegetables; make
hot-beds for pushing the more tender plants, such as mel-
ons, tomatoes, okra, egg-plants, etc.; set out fruit and other
trees, and shrubbery.
 February.-Keep planting for a succession, same as in
January in addition, plant vines of all kinds, shrubbery,
and fuit-trees of all kinds, especially of the citrus family,
snap-beank corn; bed sweet-potatoes for draws and slips.
Oats may also be still sown, as they are in previous months.
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