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 '. p. X4.OO 'PER/YEAR] JACKSONVILLE. MAY -14, 1891., [62.OO PER YEAR '4 '"1
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 '' 1701leand 17cllB.17d. few years of enforced labor, II;: pre fully blue" at their: feet. Tufts of per cent.), also a great abundance of &. j

 .. ... sume, are sufficient to reconcile the feathery bamboo, like bunches of 'oft rock containing 40 to 45 per cent.
 colored man to.a prolonged rest during ostrich plumes,wave on every slope I have used the pure clay on strawberries *
 lY visit to Jamaica.'. the balance of his life. and plain, tall as the forest trees and about three tons to the acre, ,

 :- 'Fanner Fruit-O. : rower.* ,_ The Boston ,Fruit Company :have i indescribably soft and graceful; while making a showing fully double; both
 Taking ,advantage of Mr. Plant's; acquired some 20,000 acres of these large silk cotton trees with their ponderous in plants and berries, to the ones I i
 j. ;.new Jamaica:line from Tampa, I have old estates and are gradually ,, root-butressed trunks and have not used it on. ,_ i 1
 just,paid the island a two;'week's' visit;, reclaiming sugar them for bananas and great straggling limbs,seem to writhe I have used the gravel and clay on *. 4:
 chiefly for the;purpose of gaining new cocoanuts. They run steamers three and stagger beneath their burden, of f orange trees, pears, Japan persimmons -
 :ideas of methods,of culture and -' orchids. plums etc. and the trees are
 h. propagation or four times a week to Boston, 'making throttling vines and parasitic :
 of tropical fruits. I think the run in five to seven days and: Aroids, climbing plants ,with the doing finely. Have used no other ::3
 tidy experience is.on, the 'whole very have never failed to carry ,their vegetables leaves of a ,caladium and stem of.a fertilizer for two years, and that, too, ;
 ',flattering .to our:' own, State, ,though .in.better order than our rail sugar cane, climb to their summitsand with much neglect of hoeing and cul
 'the object'of my. visit was' not 'i'realy'ud .roads usually do. This year'for'th.e e envelope the tree with ''long, I tivation. I am confident that by

 first time, they secured the ser white; rope-like ,roots, ,half an inch adding muck we have the best kind *.,, ;
 .
 : I found, a truly ,tropical island vices of a market gardener .from in diameter, which spring from every of a fertilizer for trees and need no -1!i

 with a deep, fertile soil,. provided the,'North, and he has been experimenting joint of the stem. When you add to other' kind.
 with tillable slopes, elevated, enough with ten acres in vegetablesas those orchids with leaves like ba; l'made 'my own fertilizer for my 1
 : to admit of the successful growth ,oi; a trial. His tomatoes ,yielded al nanas, the efforts of the tree,at foliageseem strawberries, using two parts muck, ri,
 apples and peaches, where a paternal most as they the North, very insignificant and secondary. one part stable manure or cottonseed ,',
 .: government ata, heavy annual outlay when'they...were woulddried or drowned Coolies and Chinese are found occa or its'equivalent in meal; treated the
 ,has for(raany 'years kept up extensive_ out; and his cucumbers seemed to be sionally, and. each,one.does the work same with '12 per cent of sulphate of
 experimental, : and nurseries quite: free from insect enemies, and of'three negroes, though not nearly as potash per ton, or rather say 12 per .
 presided over by talent from.England,, yielded much better than with us. large and muscular. Some of the oc- cent.. per acre (as I used more of the ;;
 with trained .and educated horticul-- Mango trees line the roads and are as taroons and quadroons e good foremen compost than a ton per acre), and one .
 jurists, for 'foremen.;, and still .they abundant in the' woods and fields as and under-bosses as well as part of the clay phosphate. To com- '
 .are far .behind in methods of propagation I' native forest trees, while coffee and clerks and bookkeepers.The. pare 'with this I 'tried what is called
 : "and. varieties. They still cocoatrees form the underbrush government levies an apparently the'Strawberry Fruiter, at$36 per ton,
 ', : march the mango,in the slow unsatisfactory where 'in' the abandoned estates 'indiscriminate duty upon all imports at the rate of a.ton per acre. I would
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 ". Way introduced from 'India. ; arid here and there an enterprising a; tariff for revenue only, so far defy any one to show me the difference. '. {
 They plant only sweet seedling colored family squat and,make as I could learn, taxing flour $2 per in the plots through the whole season'
 ". oranges and never,bud. The peachesand their living gathering and' selling the barrel, though they can raise no -one costing about $8 to $10 a ton, \

 apples of slavery days have been I I fruit of these wild trees,which,' however wheat, but strange to say, entering the other $36 a ton.. '
 allowed! to die.of. neglect 'and. forest they never cultivate. The all potatoes free: 1 With the revenue thus Will close by giving you' the privi-
 fires..; With an abundance of .head spice, pimtnta officinalis, is a 'native collected splendid macadamized roadsare lege of rewriting my article,' if'you can ..
 in mountain streams they'.allow 'fertile forest, tree and the logwood, a legum kept up, abundance of excellent get anything out of this poorly! composed f'
 plains} to dry up and remain sterile.toi inous 'tree, is the regular second water supplied to every town and letter. Should at all times be

 want of irrigation. But the Boston growth timber, which, in time, with village, excellent nurseries (which happy 'to contribute.to your valuable
 Fruit Company;represented by their lignumvita and cactus, takes 'posses supply trees at cost) good schools'and paper could I compose better. JJ
 founder and"president,Capt: S.D. Baker sion of old fields. A fair quality 'of an efficient police force maintained. JERRY RUNKLE. f ((1,
 ,' the banana king (as the natives call tobacco is raised in the valleys by Enough money is left over' to pay the Paradise, Fla. i < ),

 him), are making'things move on the CubansLiberian coffee a hardier,more Englishmen who exile themselves hereto Pineapple Culture. .* ,!

 ... .f north sidearid, .with a progressive; gov prolific and! superior'variety, is being fill the higher government offices This fruit, although it does not bear ;
 ernor' and pushing earnest chief of introduced, ; also the colanut of:India, handsomely for their services; and until the second year, will, nevertheless 
 .their botanical department, bid fair to its l if the bulk of the colored population:
 which is used on' account of large when the second crop is marketed,
 revolutionize Jamaica in a 'few years amount of caffeiri to give strength to I is poor, they are happy; poor because in the third year: from time of planting,
 Most,of the soil is stiff red or brown chocolate. Nutmegs and cinnamonare they arc lazy, and happy because they be found to have yielded a return, "
 clay and butliitle of;it seems 'suitedto being tried also, but the great can be lazy. JOHN B. BE CH. after deducting first cost and all ex ;;

 ,pineapples" while ,but:: little seems crop is bananas From 10,000'10 15,* Melbourne F'a. penses of cultivation, of not less than !
 .. unsuited ,to: bananas, We' see them .--
 ... bunches leavc'Jamaica for for the three
 hill-sides 000 per day Soft Phosphate for'Fruit Trees. $700 per acre per annum
 .growing.on the steepest so the States, three-fourths of which are years, and}jt will continue thenceforward 
 editor Farmer and FrnlWrower.Your : ,
 ,. steep that the top. of the, ,stalk is either carried or supplied by the : letter l asking an article for the to give the same annual return ,
 .aearcr.thee. ground horizontally: than Boston Fruit through the with ',
 Company .
 '. of the columns. of your valued paper has been per acre intelligent management.
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 vertically. A large all portion in banana king, Capt. Baker. received, and highly appreciated. It is safe, therefore, to,say. that un-
 ,available land was sugar'cape is A midribof before but der suitable conditions the pineappleis
 The scenery .grand. Should have answered, now ,
 before abolition but since the ,though
 : volcanic mountains serves asa.- busy and in fact, 1 the most remunerative crop that can
 : the an, kept very ,, ,
 all for
 thJa.ves paid,
 ,
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 '..' } : : background for the views inland on hardly know what to'write, as.I! have be raised l in any pact of the United
 could not running expeases -
 planters ; pay freed meh and 'the east end of the island, towering not been in the habit of writing on any States. '
 ,
 (- hiring thelazy turned; 'upwards of 7,000 feet. Innumerable subject for newspapers and consider Now comes the questions; to what 'J I

 j' :"Vaduallyallthe estates abandoned.were: ,, The ranges.of foot, hills, wooded to their, myself entirely.i incompetent: these suitable conditions so essentialto
 .., latoi jpasture ;or strike. ; for summits, are intersected'' by, crystal However, will try to state a few. commercial success really are. They
 ,;"'r foed-meri:; preferred to put so. streams,/, cutting deep gorges through facts_ in i .regard to an experiment with may be arranged under four heads. ,,
 and independent tj "
 tkoBselves l
 ;- and their 'rocky sides, all ,draped our soft phosphate, which we have ist Safety from frost-climate. R
 and. there
! .. tkey Squatted 'J here hand-tomoiiibi with luxuriant tropical foliage., Tall l here i in,great abundance and great variety 2cL Suitability of soil-soil.
 ..i.Hvel. eda, lazy, : i .exirtcace Freedom from too much wet- ;
 mixed
 shaded
 tree ferns wave on slopes, such as' hard gravel : insand 3d. .
 their forefathers enjoyed II
 'such as : while graceful cocoanut and' royal (about.one-quarter sand, analyzes drainage. -
 ,, in ,Africa t ever .since.. The
 their heads Facilities for shipment-mar-
 palms raise majestic showing85 percent.bone phosphate), 4th.
 interferes
 4 .'paternal ;government :only! : : proudly against,the sky,',on mountain. soft gravel! imbedded in a.stiff clay l or .
 \:-. withthisfarAke.f s ; : 5tfew-Xearsoftheir', ops'thousands of feet above, the ;;sea, matrix(.t&jsgraycl!separate yields about 'ket.There is no part of .the mainland i
 .diiv *eWifwg.4feeBQto g cquir.e: .good oiiaced
 ,10"- ( coBwaoa; school education.; :! "These which rolls "deeply; darkly,, 'beautf- 6S per.cent.j ciayandgrafelasdug, 55 of Florida which'can be"pf

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