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 FIELD AND FARM PROD UCTS. 277

 "It will be seen from the above that there is no month
in the year but what fresh and growing vegetables can be
had for sale and domestic use. This latter is a large item
in expense of living. The soil is so easily worked, so easily
cultivated, that most of garden-work can be performed by
even delicate ladies, and young children of both sexes.
Indeed, most Florida gardens are so made-no frozen clods
to break or rocks to remove. A garden once put in con-
dition, properly managed, will produce abundantly and
constantly. The rapid growth assures large and tender
vegetables, early and luscious fruit. A single season will
afford strawberries from the setting out, ripe figs from two-
year-old cuttings, grapes the second year, peaches the sec-
ond and third years, oranges from the bud in three to five
years. At a little cost, a little care, one can literally sit
under his own vine and fig-tree, and enjoy fresh-plucked
fruit the whole year."