66 FLORIDA FARMER AND FRUIT GROWER, MARCH 2, 1887.


 a great many berries through in fair longevity of the tree is increased several h
 t h dand6atdeq condition, let us examine into the nat- years. .
 ural and unnatural conditions our ber- CULTIVATION. 1
 ries will be thrown into while in the The peach orchard should be culti-
 Inquiries concerning diseases of domestic hands of those gentlemen who guard so vated every season. Irish potatoes and
 Jacksonville, Florida,ho wiDr.answerD. O. Lyothem faithfully the "goose that lay's the gold- corn, followed by cow peas, may be
 through this column, en egg" and in whose hands the hardy grown for two or three seasons until the,
 Irish potatoes, in a ventilated crate, of- trees shade too much; after which time
 TROPICAL FRUITS IN FLORIDA. ten arrive at destination in a rotten and the orchard should be plowed at least
 TKrlAL. K A in l worthless condition, three times annually, and sown each
 ---- Ventilated crates are of but little use summer to cow peas. Almost any soil fil
 Incentives to Further Efforts. in a sweat box of a car, with delays un- of medium fertility contains the re- n
 How to Insure Success. avoidable, and otherwise, that are con- quired elements for'a vigorous growth a
 stantly occurring. A warm, moist at- of the peach, and little manure is neces-, a
 BY P. W. REASONER. mosphere will ruin a berry in a few sary until the tree is well established. v
 (Read before the Florida Nurserynnen's Associa. hours, often before it can be got out of From chemical analysis of the peach, M
 'ion, at Orlando, 1a.,Feb.18, 887.) the State. A hot, dry atmosphere is apple and pear, but three ingredients go ft
 tgin, at rsanouflaed.poi.) much better, but fruit will rapidly de- to make up almost their entire composi- t.
 Against the successful and profitable preciate in value by its influence. A tion, viz : potash, lime and phosphate of rE
 production of tropical fruits in Florida, dry, cold atmosphere of 36 to 88 degrees, lime. Hence wood ashes, caustic lime, v
 more especially in Middle and North will hold fruit for days in the same bone meal, or any substance rich in these
 Florida, the great hindrance of course is condition they were in when introduced elements compose the requisite food for n
 the frequent occurrence of frosts, and of if decomposition has not already begun. the peach. The cow pea acts on the pot- t
 late, even South Florida is timidly hold- The refrigerators used by Mr. C. S. ash salts always present in clay soils, it
 ing.back; for has not her pet "frost line Durling, of New York, under the man- hence its indirect manurial value, v
 gone frisking away to Cuba, and over- agement of Mr. E. A. Dicker, last sea- INSECT ENEMIES.m
 stepped all the bounds of reason and son, vouch for the correctness of the t
 proipety above. In two or three cases the berries Butitwonsects injure the peach d
 however, from Cape Canaveral and were detained in Savannah three days, ously in our section, viz thepeach
 Tampa southward, in protected locations having missed the steamer intended to worm, or borer, a four-winged, wasp- u
 along the coast, in the lake region of Polk connect with, and on arrival in New shaped insect of steel blue color, and the t
 and Orange counties, even where the York in perfect order appearing, in the curculio. The borer deposit a its eggs s
 great freeze of 1886 killed all tender veg- language of a buyer in New York, from early summer till fall, at the base
 station to the ground, looking at past "frsher and more tempting than the or collar of the tree. As soon as hatched h
 experience, are we to expect such a berries that come to the market from the larva enters the bark at the root, and
 freeze again in the near future? And only fif ten miles out in the country." unless caught, often rings the sap wood, d
 does it not often pay best to run heavy Mr. Bean, in his instructions to ship- causing death to the tree. Examine sev-
 risks? pers, says,. "pick your berries a little eral times during the season, ani espe- m
 Our esteemed friend Mr. E. H. Hart, green and they will ripen in transit" cially in the fall,for the larva whichmay t
 of Federal Point, has said that when he which no doubt is important, but will be easily captured with a pocket knife i
 first came to Florida, directly after the soonbring the Florida err in badd re- and a small bent wire. An ounce of
 war, there were guava trees in Palatka pute as such berries will hbesour and in- bard soap rubbed around the base of ti
 "with trunks as large as stove-pipes." sipi. each tree, will do much to heal the
 We all know that the Avocado pear has C. P. P wounds and prevent the return of this p
 attained a height of forty feet in Tampa, insect. A simple remedy is to bank dirt g
 with trunk two feet in diameter; the uPEAC PTURE. aboutone foot high about the tree and al- K
 guava a height of thirty feet in Manatee, PEACH CULTURE. low it to remain during the summer. w
 the mango a height of twenty-five feet --This will prevent the fly from deposit- r
 at Pinellas, with a spread of thirty feet General Directions for Planting ing her egg3 at the roots. Lime or wood
 and a burden of 12,000 mangoes; that and Managing an Orchard. ashes are better than dirt for this pur- t
 the tamarind has attained a stem cir- The Southern Live Stock Journal con- pose. Removing the soil and wrapping
 eloue of fouran ie in Muanate a"J e odr ie lioab torat con-
 that mangoes, Avocado p ears, g uavas, structions on peach culture which with another remedy.b
 melon papaws, granaadias, sugar ap- slight modifications as to seasons of The curculio-a small, dark brown
 es t arinds, sour-sops, sapodillas, r; marieqasly api abo to eaonida beetle, with white, yellow and black it
 haver thesie e ese Frid places.spots-feigns death when the tree is sud- t
 f-or years-even as far up as _ai0; SOIL AND LOCATION. denly bored and will drop to the ground.
 that the cocoa-palm, one of the mes -Among the important factors which The weevil begins to puncture the young c
 tender of all palms, had survived for six enter into account ito account in securing the best fruit as soon as it sets and to deposit
 winters at Lake Harris; that the coffee result following : Aspect and its are the following: Aspect and its eggs, which soon hatch into a grub. c
 shrub and Otaheite gooseberry had kind of soil; drainage, natural or arti- The grub grows with the peach until
 fruited for five or more years at Manatee, ficial; varietiessuited for the purpose for large enough to destroy its vitality. The c
 a where also the allspice tree, the cashew which they are grown; preparation of best known remedy so far for the curcu-
 nut and the great hog-plum of the West soil; method of planting, cultivating and lio, is to jar the tree and catch the insects c
 Indies had produced blossoms, and the pruning; fertilizers used; insects and on a sheet spread beneath. Fowls an1 e
 cherimoya attained a good size; that remedies, hogs are the best insect traps known for ,
 at Orlando the cherimoya was in bloom A few warm days in early spring will he orchard. i
 at the time of the freeze, and the East sometimes tempt trees on a warm south-
 Indian glycosmis had fruited for Mr. Bid- ern exposure to bloom too early. All Effects of Soil on Figs. i
 well for several years. things being equal, if preference can be Ed itor rida Fanrmer and Fruit-Grower: i
 May we not anticipate another such had, let the orchard be on a high, dry, Now that the season is at hand for set- f
 cycle of warm winters? If not, if we northern slope. A strong sandy loam fin tree, it may interest uch of
 still do not care to run anyrisks, can we with clay subsoil, is best suiteito the yor readers as contemplate the cultiva-
 not produce the more tender and perish- peach. A deep gravelly subsoil is pre- tion of this delicious fruit to know that t
 able-tropical fruits in paying quantities ferable to stiff heavy clay, unless it is the soil in which the trees grow*.has
 bypeans of slight artificial protection? thoroughly undeK. drained and deeply much to do with the uses t which the
 As-every school-boy draws his examples subsoiled- Where the subsoil is loose f i adapted A t
 of heroism and science and literature and friable, surface drains will usually fruit i s a!go I noticed in a article
 fbmthland of Juius Cesar, of alileo, Some years ago I noticed in an arcle
 from theland of Julius Csssar, of Galileo, answer, on the subject in a California paper, that r
 of Bonaparte, why not look there too r or PLANTING AN ORCHARD. "figs should never be planted in a wet (
 shining examples of Pomona's triumph? If growing for home use, select vari- or moist soil, as that would make the 1
 Near Paris, we are told, there are eties ripening at different times during skins thick and tough." I was. much t
 hundreds of acres of orange trees pro- the entire season.. Flavor, canning and disturbed by the statement, for my very
 tected. through the winter by slight drying qualities, should also be consid- choicest varieties were growing in just
 movable sheds, which are entirely re- ered. If for market, size, beauty and that kind of soil, and the skins are
 moved in the spring. Do not the Lon- good shipping qualities are to be regard- "thick and tough," and the trees too
 don gardeners produce the finest pine- ed. Study the wants of the market, large to transplant. After much consid-
 apples in the world under glass, and When practicable, the.land should be ration I arrived at this conclusion, that F
 with a thousand difficulties in heating thoroughly plowed, subsoiled and bar- figs grown in moist soil will bear trans-
 and forcing, and dispose of them at rowed to a depth of ten or twelve inches portation to northern and western mar-
 highly remunerative prices? before planting. This can be done best kets as well as other'fruits, provided the
 Near Genoa, Italy, hundreds of lemon after the first good fall rains. Where late bearing varieties are selected.
 groves are planted on terraces, protected plowing can't be done in time, holes dug I am not versed in the nomenclature
 with a system of movable sheds, their three feet across and eighteen inches of figs, but the large purple, and the
 cultivation and care being carried to the deep will answer. Plowing may then be green Ischia, are the best I know any- t
 greatest perfection, with a result of most done at leisure. November, February thing about, for shipping fresh, and these
 profitable returns. In the markets of and March are the months for planting, are grown in a low, moist spot in my 1
 IMarseilles the fruit of the Chinese Lee- Peach trees one year old from the bud garden. I gathered some before being
 chee, the peruvian cherimoya, the West are best. If set in November, new roots fully ripe, wrapped them in paper and
 India sour-sops, and other tropical' ,nd will form rapidly and much time will put them away from the light. After
 perishable fruits may be purchased fresh often be gained on spring plantings. On ten days I took them out, and about ev-
 from the trees, which are grown in the good soil, twenty by twenty feet is the ery one of the dozen so treated was
 open ground with a light protection proper distance to each tree Upon re- sound and sweet. Celestials treated in
 through the winter. Are these not all ceiving trees from the nursery, if the the same way-but grown on a dry spot'
 examples of tropical fruit grown profita- roots are dry, immerse them in water -spoiled in two days.
 bly far above their native latitudes ? for several hours to revive the small The'early ripening varieties come in
 In our own country, .too, have not roots. If not ready to plant, trench out about the time of our rainy season, and
 General Sanford and others made a suc- in moist light soil and the trees will it is almost impossible to make them into
 cess of the cultivation of choice pine- keep perfectly during the whole winter, preserves that will not ferment. Evap-
 apples by the use of light palmetto sheds? When ready to plant trim up all bruised orating and crystalizing may save the
 And does not California deem it expedi- roots nicely, and when the tree is in po- early crop, but the best results will be
 ent and profitable to wrap her young sition spread them out in their natural obtained from the late bearing trees. I
 orange trees with straw in the fall? And position, fill in with pulverized surface have gathered fruit from my green Is-
 in the North are there not hundreds of soil and press firmly around them. Plant chias on the 26th of November, and a'so
 tender shrubs that are grown far out of 'same depth as tree stood in the nursery. from the brown Smyrna, until frost.
 latitude by the use of the same simple PRUNIN. Plant trees in soil to suit the purpose
 means. I for which the fruit is intended
 S' The magnolia grandiflora thus flour- Before vegetation begins in spring cut for which. F. B. CHAPMANthe fruit is intended,
 ishes near Philadelphia; the sweet the trees back to a'single stem or walk- MARIANNA, Fla
 scented calycanthus, usually tender ing stick about two feet high. When the '
 north of the Ohio river, is thus wintered dormant buds near the top have pushed
 even to the northward of Chicago. And into vigorous growth, remove all but Grafting Wax.
 so it is all over the globe. Fruits and one, which will form; the future head of For winter use-French: Melt together
 vegetables are grown out of latitude and the tree. The orchari should come into two pounds of clear rosin and two ounces
 out of season, always -at more or less bearing the-third. o fourth season from of beef or mutton tallow, and when cold
* extra expense and cake,' and prove re- planting. Remember that fruit,is formed add one fluid ounce of spirits of turp-
 muierative. Our proximity to the only on the one-year-old wood. Trees, entine and about thirteen to fifteen fluid
 great markets of the East, our advan-- left unpruned lose their cone-like form ounces of ninety-five per. cent.' alcohol,
 takes of' transportation, by' means of after 'a few years, when the bearing' added slowly over a moderate heat, the
 S-which-fruits as delicate as the straw- wood and allnew growth will be found contents being well stirred until about"
 Sbery' can be shipped safely over a only at the extremity of a few principal, the consistency of honey, or just so as
 -tliousand miles, -our visual mildness of branches. The sap fronrthe roots being to be applied with a stiff feather.. Keep'
 "climate and our superior skill in horti- compelled to flow through long, lean -in a widemouthed bottle, and cork when
 -culture, should give us great advantage branches to get to the growing parts, is not in use. It is a complete dressing for'
 over our near competitors, the Mexicans so0much retarded and obstructed as to all wounds on trees.
 and Cubans, render growth less vigorous each sue- For early spring-Major Freas: Four
 -*. *' ceeding season.: The fruit, too, becomes pounds of rosin, one .pound of tallow,
 '. Ven t if'nil-ated Crates, more inferior, and being at the ends of and one of bees-wax; melt all together
 :n ,.,e rates. n long branches causes them to break Uin- over-a slow fire, and when done turn out
 di4.so-Porida .armer and Fruit-Grower: der its-weight. A visit to an unpruned into':a ~ib bf cold water, and pull as
 -A letter from a commission house says orchard and then to one properly pruned shoemake'r's'wax is made. This may be
 the express ventilated, crate system of will be sufficientto prove the advantages softened with hot water if the weather
 carrying strawberries from Florida, is of the latter over the former., be too cool, and applied with a paddle.
 "cheaper, handier, quicker .and better Proper pruning for the peach consists For summer, and to use upon trees-
 than any other method." -Laying aside of cutting off from one-third to one-half Farm Journal: Four pounds of rosin, one
 the producer's interest and no doubt the of the last year's growth of wood pound of beeswax, and from half to a
 commission man has the argument. It throughout the exterior and the interior pint of raw linseed; melt all together
 certainly requires no capital on the part of the entire head of the tree. Time,- gradually, and turn into water and pull
 of the commission merchant, and any February and March of each season, as for making shoemaker's wax. This
 curb-stone operator can solicit business, Branches forming on the wrong place is a grafting-wax that needs no seeing
 sell and make returns, even though they may be removed at any time. If pruned to afterward if well put on, by cooking
 arein "bad order." The Florida producer at the proper time, no branch longer the-greasy hands and applying secundum
 can receive such returns, more philoso- than the thumb need be cut, and the arium.
 phically, probably, than any other mortal wounds heal rapidly and perfectly. The In cherry grafting always, and in
 on the face of the earth, young shoots start out from every part other kinds sometimes, strips of old
 Unless we are compelled, as the only of the tree; the fruit is nicelydistributed muslin or calico from a quarter to half
 Means at our command, to use the yen- from centre to circumference; the head an inch wide should be wound over the
 tilated crates, which will no doubt take is kept low and well balanced; and the wax and the ends imbedded into it to


 old the grafts steady, and to prevent
 he slit from gaping.-Germantown
 Telegraph.

 HINTS ON HERBORIZING.

 low to Collect,Prepare and Pre-
 serve Botanical Specimens. *
 The swelling buds and expanding
 owers of early spring awaken in the
 minds of many a desire to.- possess that
 accurate knowledge of the relationships
 nd systematic characters of plants
 which constitutes the science of botany.
 Many Persons never attempt this delight-
 ul study because they do not know how
 o commence, and it is with a desire to
 move this obstacle in a measure that
 we now offer a few words of instruction.
 Anyone having a capacity for study
 may learn the name and natural rela.-
 ionsiip of any flowering plant by an
 itelligent use of some good descriptive
 york, such as we have already recom-
 mended. An elementary work on struc-
 ural botany needs to be studied in or-
 er to understand technical descriptions.
 'his and the learning of the names are
 unattractive but necessary features of
 he study. One can no more acquire a
 atisfactory knowledge of a hundred
 plants without their names, than he can
 have a satisfactory acquaintance with. a
 hundred persons without being able to
 distinguish them by name.
 Any locality embracing a few square
 niles will be found to contain from 500
 o 800 kinds of flowering plants, includ-
 ng the grasses and sedges. They may
 ie identified by such books as we men-
 ioned in a recent number. When there
 s doubt as to the identity of any plants,
 pressed specimens should be sent to some
 obod botanist, such as Dr. A. Gray or
 Mr. S. Watson, of Cambridge, Mass.,
 who will determine them if the speci-
 nens are properly prepared. They may
 be sent by mail, arranged carefully be-
 ween sheets of paper, these being placed
 between pasteboard covers. Each speci-
 men should have a number attached, or,
 by paying twice as much postage, there
 nay be written labels. A correspond-
 ugly numbered set must be retained,
 and when the names are returned they
 vill be found opposite the same num-
 bers.
 Having identified the plants within
 one's reach, and having learned how to
 prepare herbarium specimens, one may
 obtain the plants of almost any part of
 he world by the system of botanical ex-
 change, which is extensively carried on,
 especially in the Northern States and Eu-
 rope. To those especially who are con-
 ined to the house by ill health' or by the
 winter of the North, this affords a de-
 ightful source of diversion as well as
 instruction. Aids to this sy stem are
 found in exchange catalogues, natural-
 sts' directories, partially printed labels,
 etc., concerning which and methods of
 transmission we can .-give exact infor-
 mation when desired.
 No -ongcan be a good botanist without
 a good herbarium, which is etm6posed of
 dried specimens of species and their va-
 Iuis forms arranged in systematic or-
 der and accurately labelled. The for-
 mation ofta good herbarium is no simple
 task, and desultor ,unguidedd,.efforts
 will surely be attended with much loss
 of time and many discouragements.
 Scientific characters are taken from the
 fruit and leaves as well as from the
 lowers, and often the roots are very im-
 portant; therefore, a mere sprig of flow-
 ers does not constitute a "botanical
 specimen." A plant not over three or
 four feet high should generally be pre-
 served entire, doubling it upon itself
 once or twice if too long for the herba-
 rium sheet. Of very large herbs, the
 upper portion or a branch and a lower
 leaf must, suffice, and of shrubs and
 trees a branchlet. Specimens of most
 herbs may contain both flowers and
 fruit, but of most shrubs and trees the
 flowers are to be collected early in the
 season and the fruit with mature leaves
 later. Sedges should be collected only
 in mature fruit.
 Specimens are usually brought home
 either loose in a tight tin box, or pressed
 flat in folded sheets'of thin paper carried
 in a stout portfolio. In our climate it is
 best, for various reasons, to collect speci-
 mens in.a tin. box in which has been
 placed some sheets of wet paper. Speci-
 mens kept in such a receptacle and
 slightly sprinkled may be kept in good
 order for pressing for one or two days.
 Plants whose flowers are of short du-
 ration should be gathered very early in
 the day, and night bloomers should be
 gathered late and pressed next morning,
 as their flowers will expand in the box.
 Specimens of the orange and of many
 other thick-leaved trees and shrubs
 should oe air-dried for a day or so be-
 fore putting in press. Plants which feed
 mainly on the air should be scalded first,
 for some plants will actually bloom and
 fruit in the press. Thick roots should be
 split, and often it is best to thin out
 dense foliage, leaving the base of leaf
 stalks to show their natural position.
 For drying specimens make a press as
 follows: Take two light boards 12xl1
 inches in size, and on one side of each
 fasten with screws or clinch-nails twc
 wooden cleats to prevent splitting and
 warping. Between these arrange in al-
 ternate layers the driers and'sheets o1
 specimens. Around the whole pass tw(
 stout straps, to be drawn as tiglitly at
 possible. For a lady's use weights may bh
 preferred to straps; their weight should
 aggregate from 50 to 100 pounds. Thebesi
 driers are made of felt paper, but news
 papers of uniform size will serve thi
 purpose. The driers absorb the moisture
 from the sheets of specimens, and thej
 do this most rapidly if used warm afteo
 being sun-dried.
 The sheets of white paper for holding
 the specimens should be cut so as t<
 measure 11x16 inches when onci
 folded. The specimens will thus be bes
 adapted to the standard size of mount
 ing paper, which is 11jx16j inches. Ar
 range the specimens in this so as to ap
 pear as smooth and natural as possible
 field down the upper half of the shoe
 carefully as you arrange the specimen
 then put a drier on top and so proceed
with all the specimens in hand.


AITLAND


NURSERIES.


ALL VARIETIES OF


 ORANGE AND LEMON TREES.


Buds not placed on small stocks, but on extra
 large and fine ones.l

 We make a specialty of the
 -EARLY SPANISH RANGE- --
 (the earliest variety known),
 TOHITI LIMES and
 VILLA FRANCA LEMONS$
and can show trees oX the latter that :stood the
cold last winter as well as the Orange, and
 NOW HAVE FRUIT UPON THEM.


 Send for Catalogue.

SP.* -


KIDNEY & CAREY,
 Winter Pi rk Fla.


 Most specimens need to be changed to
 fresh driers the second and third days,
 and some the fifth a'fd seventh days af-
 ter being put in. When dry put then
 away in their papers in piles and keep
 in a dry place till winter. In changing
 press keep a watch for worms, which
 are apt to hatch out in leguminous and
 composite flowers and devour them.
 Ants, though they may swarm in a
 press, will disappear when the speci-
 mens are dry without doing any harm
 As many flowers which abound in pol-
 len as well as fleshy fruits are liable to
 be destroyed by mites, it is well to apply
 to all specimens when dried a weak alco-
 holic solution of corrosive sublimate. A
 specimen should never fie permanently
 mounted without being thus protected
 against insects. Whenever desired we
 will give further advice on any detail of
 botanical work and tell where and how
 to procure any materials, instruments,
 books, etc. A. H. C.

 Service of Hawks and Owls.
 We are indebted to the West Chester
 Microscopical Society, says the Philadel-
 phia Record, for some very interesting
 facts relating to the hawk and owl
 tribes, which go to show that among
 preditory birds the farmer has no better
 friends Ornithologist Warren's meth-
 ods of investigation leave no room for
 controversy. In order to ascertain the
 food that hawks and owls live upon he
 has for past years examined the contents
 of their stomachs. It is shown that both
 hawks and owls live mainly upon mice
 and insects, meadow mice and grass-
 hoppers being the staple articles of con-
 sumption. The owls destroy so few
 chickens, in comparison with other
 small game, that the fact that they ever
 get a chicken supper is not worth men-
 tioning. Two or three kinds of hawks,
 with long tails and short wings, are
 chicken eaters-the 1-irge hawks seldom
 touch a chicken-but all of the hawk
 tribe do ten times more good than harm.
 Even of weasels, Mr. Merriam, the orno-
 thologist in the Departmeitof Agricul-
 ture at Washington, write that "the
 smaller kind feeds chiefly on mice and
 insects, and is not known t kill poultry.
 The larger also. preys mainly upon mice
 and rats, but, in addition, sometimes kills
 rabbits and poultry. Both species are
 friends of the farmer, for the occasional
 loss of a few chickens is of trifling con
 sequence compared with the good that
 these animals are constantly doing in
 checking the increase of mice." The
 hawks guard the farmer's growing crops
 by day, and the owls by night, No doubt
 every able-bodied bird saves more every
 year for the farmer than the sum of the
 bounty placed upon its head.

 Cooling Fruit.
 A correspondent of the Rural Cali-
 fornian writes from Riverside, under
 date of December 28th:
 The most important move ever made
 in the interest of fruit-grovers in-Cali-
 fornia has just'been begun in Riverside.
 The Inter-Ocean Cold Storage Company
 are putting up works here to cost $40,-
 000, having a capacity, to cool for ship-
 ment ten carloads of fruit per day. The
 fruit, after being cooled, is shipped in
 refrigerator cars, end arrives in the East-
 ern market in as good condition as it
 was when first picked from the trees or
 vines. The company had experimented
 at Santa Anna during the past season to
 *such an extent as to make sure of their
 position, and they come here to establish
 the pioneer works. This is the only
 plant of the kind in the United States
 where shipment of fruits and vegetables
 is to be made a business under cold
 storage conditions, and our people are
 jubilant over the fact that another
 season's grapes, apricots, peaches, and
 pears can be fully matured and ripened
 before being shipped.

 The Castor Bean.
 A correspondent of the Texas Farm
 and Ranch writes thus of 'an industry
 which perhaps deserves.attention in this
 State:
 Castor beans should be planted, as
 corn, about the 10th of March, four feet
 apart each way. It is sometimes four to
 six weeks after planting before plants
 appear. Put two seeds in a hill; thin to
 one stalk; cultivate as corn. Gather
 when seed panicles turn yellow. Put
 them in dry, sunny enclosure to pop out.
 The Weatherford Oil Company,
 Weatherford, Texas, will buy the seed
at $1.50 per bushel. Seeds for planting
 may be obtained from reliable seed deal-
 ers.


 FLORIDA







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 DEVOTED TO THE


 Farm,


 Garden,


 Orchard

 AND.


 HOUSEHOLDS EGOJOJIIY




 A.H.Cf-IKIs

 EDITOR.

 This journal will have for its leading object
 the promotion of rural industriesin Florida, and
 will advocate especially a more diversified and
 intensive system of agriculture and great
 economy of home resources.
 Assuming that the agricultural adaptations o
 a large portion of Florida are as yet but imper-
 fectly understood, a special aim of this iourna
 will be to describe the best results which have
 been accomplished, with the exact methods em-
 ployed, and all influences affecting such results;
 also to suggest experiment, describe new or little
 :knowncrops, fruits, etc., and record the progress
 of r ricultu-e'in neighboring States.
 Commencing'with the first number and con-
 tinuing through the season for

 Tree Planting,
 There will be a series of articles on fruits-other
 than those of tho citrus group-which have
 proved most successful in this State. Each va-
 riety will be described and

 Illustrated,
 And4here will be notes from persons who have
 had experience in its cultivation. This will be
 followed by a similar series on

 SForage Plants,
 And other subjects will be illustrated to a limited
 extent.
 Much attention will be devoted to

 Live Stock
 And to the hqme production of forage and fertili
 zers, two economies which are essential to sue
 cessful farming.
 Questions relative to ailments of domestic
 animals will be answered by an able veterinary
 surgeon who formerly edited a like department
 of the

 Turf, Field and Farm.
 A due amount of space will be devoted
 household economy and to reports of the mar
 kets, and the departments of
 Tri4ck-Gardening,
 Floriculture,
 Poultry,
 Veterinary
 S Practice, etc.
 will be contributed to by persons who have made
 specialties of those branches.
 All portions of the State will receive a due
 amount of attention, and their interests will be
 represented by able correspondents. .
 Under no' circumstances will this journal be-
 come the "organ" of any association or locality
 it will start out untrammelled and will repre-
 sent all sections and interests with absolute im-
 partiality. ", -
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