WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.


I am told, is very fine.


The jelly and marmalade made


from the guava needs no endorsement.
 Strawberries, if well cared for, are to be had


from


early winter till late spring, or, indeed, into summer.
Blackberries (wild) are abundant, and so fine that to


cultivate them would be a waste of time.


I saw acres


of ripening, wild blackberries in a neighboring planta-


tion, and heard the


proprietor give orders


to an


*colored
lady to


"auntie "


preserve


to pick


the next


one hundred


day.


When


quarts for a
the hundred


quarts were gathered, none could tell by the looks of
the bushes that any had been taken. The huckleberry
abounds in the woods in every direction. The cassava


root is easily raised, and is


used boiled like a


potato,


or made into starch or in
kinds of cakes are made.
raised and profitable crop.


to flour, from which various
The peanut is also an easily
 And in the extreme south-


ern part of Florida almost any kind of


fruit that can


be found in the tropics can be cultivated and made re-
munerative.


Time would fail


to enumerate all the fruits, vege-


tables, nuts, etc., that Florida will yield bountifully to


those who accept her favors, and are
them forward with skill and industry


ready to


bring


but she has no


promises for those who will not help themselves.


"entering


a homestead," it is not wise


to at-


tempt to clear a large amount of land at first, or in


clearing to cut down all the forest trees.


Some of the


forest trees should


preserved in clusters of


six or


eight, according to the character of the tree, both for


beauty and to protect the


young


orange groves from