LETTERS FROM FLORIDA.


determination to give time and thought toward build-
ing up and sustaining everything that tends toward
moral and religious strength, as well as to cultivate
and improve the soil.
 But one who settles here must remember that there
will naturally be more discomforts and perplexities
the first year than in succeeding years. The promise


is surer here than in many
wilderness can be made to
rose; but, as I have some
"this can not be done in a
under your own vine and fi
or make you afraid; but t
first be planted, matured, ai


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Florida,
North a
interest


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nd
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other new places, that the
bud and blossom like the
where heard the remark,
lay or a year. You can sit
g-tree, with none to molest
;he vine and the fig must
nd tended."


united labor of improving and cultivating
believe that the old prejudices between the
i the South will wear away, and a common
e established, by which each will employ


their best faculties to accomplish the
Each will bring to the work their own
provements and excellences, until the
ously laboring for the same end, will ha
tice the best, most. rapid, and reliable


desired work.
individual im-
two, harmoni-
ve put in prac-
modes of de-


veloping the naturally rich and wonderful resources
of this State.
 Many vegetables and greens that hitherto have not
been thought capable of culture will yet be success-
fully raised here; and implements that it has been
thought could not be used in Southern culture will be
found, on trial, of invaluable service.
 There is one other comfort that I would be glad to