The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-03-19

amount of nitcd States notes shall be
cancelled and destroyed.
FlOrida-Iier Fruits and Vegetable Pro-
ducticns.
\ friend, who for the present is with his
| family, residing at Jacksonville, Florida.
! furnishes some very interesting facts in re
latien to that rapidly improving State. lie
says:
am much pleased with many things
larry with the good feeling existing between
the two races which formerly stood in the
relative position of master and slave. The
whites in this State appear to have accepted
the situation without any reservation, and
now employ their former servants, lay
them wages. and really, as a general thing,
seem anxious to see them doing we'll The
blacks are SOBER polite, weil-behaved. and
to certain extent, industrious, the extent
being SO far as is necessary to supply their
absolute wants. The climate being warm,
and the soil productive, they. like the most
of us, do not seem fond of work for work $
sake, and having no desire for riches or fine
raiment, they work day or two and then
rest to spend their wages.
| If you would pay this region visit. you
would be greatly pleased. The climate is
pleasant, though this winter very change
able. Last Monday, Jan. 10, the mercury
stood at 30, and ice was made: at ~ NJ,
OH Tuesday, it stood at So and on Thurs
day, in front of the st. James Hotel. in
the sun, it stood at 101 To-day Sunday }
as write in my reom-it stands so. In
the garden adjoining my residence, the
owner picks green peas, lettuce. leekS,
radshes and Strawberries every day and
has for a month past. Roses and violets
are in bloom, the streets are full of mock
ing birds in full song, and everything looks
as if VIC were in the middle of June in
! Philadelphia.
! Jacksonville has a population of 1000
| The streets are wide and we'll shaded with
live and water oaks, which grow most lux
uriantly in the dry sand. The oaks are
/
/ Shade tree.
/ ] walked out the other day to see an
orange grove. The natives think fifty to
one hundred-about an acre-a large affair.
| With us, you know, a grove would mean
600 acres, like the large peach farms of
Delaware and Maryland You have heard
of ten thousand oranges on a tree That
story is true. | saw five Thousand on one
tree, and feel confident q tree thirty years
old, can carry and has carried ten thou
sand oranges. There is 10 sort of culture
SO profitable as an orange farm. The trees
bear in five years from the seed, and in
from three to four years from cutting In
six years, grove will average one hundred
oranges to tree, and in eight years three
thousand, now selling at from SIS to $e5
per Thousand. Say S. per thousand, and
three thousand to tree, or So an acre
of one hundred trees would pay $500 or
$50, 900 on one hundred acres. This would
be realized on every well cultivated farm.
and has this year from almost every grove
i'll Florida. know Of one grove of fifty
trees, the first Of which was: sold at $40 per
tree, netting the owner ,e2, $50, and this
for half an acre only. If l. We're ten years
younger, | would &c to ii avana buy two
Thousand orange trees, nd plant twenty
acres. The whole expens would be about
$500, and in ten years it would pay me
from $1,000 to $4,000 81 year. 1t is the
very best estate man could leave his fam
lily. The tree never lies Of old age, and
has frozen only once-in 1885. The freZen
trees however sprouted again, and are said
to be more prolific now than ever
If l could find relia bic person, would
join him in putting in one hundred acres
1t would cost-land, fs ncins and planting,
$1,000. Inside OF ten years, Florida will
supply the United State with oranges, figs,
pine apples, early era pes, and possibly
cocoa nuts. The grape does as well as any
other crop. The Black Hamburg grow.
and ripens well. Last: Spring, man here
sold all his crop in \ CIV York for dollar
a pound. Italian gra pes and other fruits
grow and rpen here as well as in their Ma,
| tive country.
! Many Northern ',ruck farmers have To-
Gated here, and N ore are coming. Last
Spring early tom atoes sweet corn, pota.
toes, peas, &C., &C., were sent to New
York in large Quantities. The natives
claim that the pea CHI does better here thar
in any other par of the United States
that it ripens arier and continues two
months after all ours have been marketed
Sugar cane 6 rows as we'll here as in Cuba
1t rattoons ~ as it does Oh the "ever faith
full isle ard as it does not in Louisiana
where it has to be planted every year.
am told six hundred gallons of syrup car
be made from an acre. If So, no croI
would pay better as it is worth seventy
five cents per gallon, and costs about a.
much as corn to cultivate
The rivers are full of fish OF IKE very
finest sorts, which are to be had for til,
mere trouble Of fishing tor yet there is al
ways :: scarcity of them in the market
The re is a splendid opening here for some
of our Delaware Bay fishermen. j. c. II.
/arhonrUr, Fi".. Jan rs. 20.