The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-03-30

via, there vii be oranges enoagh pro-
asccd IA this State 10 loAd ; frrighs
,rais Of cars three thousand miles long.
OF orc thing yoa NAY be sere. they
vii grow cheaper with each sUcceed-
ing year
| spent Sunday IN Ocala, preaching
morning and Afternoon Ia a Baptist
Church 10 hAadial q people. The
.Bishop of FLORIDA (Youngl and the
Rev. Mr. Pitts Of S,eubenville, Ohio.
were among my auditors
Monday morning the Bishop ADD
Mf 7. weat some twenty miles
south 70 visit orange groves on Lake
PauAsoiki. and preempt some wild
grange land on Lake ChArlieApopkA.
ADD hired two horses and carriage
Tor S. TO take me to Orange Lake,
about twenty miles north Of ocala.
The road was straight, level, sandy,
and the pine trees on either side were
untouched by man. No one lives on
the road, and saw DO human being
on the way, except man, woman and
three children, all Of whom had the
inevitable tallow complexion, huddled
into small riekety cart. drawn by a
single poor steer. A tedious ride OF
four or five hours brought me TO 3 set
Element which world attempt TO de-
scribe il did not know that any effort
/ could make would be Ruthless. A
log house consisting Of two pens about
Ia feet square, separated from each
other by covered space feet wide,
a single log pen about IL feet square,
and two log pens eadh IA feet long by
Q feet wide constituted the buildings
An old man over seventy years of age
with his second wife and babe occu.
pied the single house aud his two
daughtc'.s with two boarders the other
ba'ldip &, while the oblong pens served
As Stables Several acres Of land lay
'lrc and free from stumps and even
v eeds. The house was open to both
, light and weather. There was no
sawed timber used IN its construction,
aud the openings admitted rats as well
as fresh air. | had hardly extinguished
the light when | retired. before half Q
dozen at least were heard capering
about the room. A man who had gone
to bed in the same room before me told
me that they would do no harm unles,
had crackers or cheese in my pock
cts, but If | had they would tear ny
clothes to pieces. The table fare wa
worse than the rest. The water il
from the surface and suchwater. Their
was nothing at night or in the morning
that / could eat, and l was hearth.
glad to get away at o'clock for lola
Ia miles distant, a station an the Ock
; lawaha River, where at seven in tn
evening / took my fayorite boat, Os
ceio, for Palatka.
The drive from Orange Lake to lol
= was through just such country a
from Ocola to the lake. But ] wa
well repaid for all my discomforts b
: my visit to the orange groves on th
: border Of the lake. Here the growt
! of wild oranges is wonderful. Her
are say 5000 acres of rich land O
), which grow in great numbers hug
oaks, magnolias, naples, ash and wa
. nuts, making heavy forest, bur
! dred feet or more high. Underneat
! these trees grow wild orange trees
great numbers, reaching to height {
from Is to 80 feet. There are nearl
!, all the small trees to be found in tt
: woods, and they are all heavily lade
= with oranges. About 500 acres Of th
timber have been cut down, the vii
). orange trees sawed off few feet aboy
the ground and budded or grated vii
the sweet orange. Those that we
!, budded three years ago bore this yea
:, and next year million of sweet Q
anges are expected from this grow
These new groves are disfgured
= many huge heaps of logs piled in eveI
. direction. was told that in thr'
:. years they would entirely disappe
:. from decay. Such is the effect OF d
. climate, and that in this way they g
!: rich the soil much more than VIII
!. burned; besides, if they we're burn
:. they would kill most of the your
]. trees.
i, When an orange tree has reached
i maturity they require much space,
8. that an acre Of ground affords room
only hundred trees, but while tn
i are growing three or four times th
!. number find room. l rode on horI
i back nearly all the afternoon throu
). these original and budded groves, a
- royed about for miles and miles and
a canopy as yellow as it was green.
hs uneasy wonder, inquiring where th
:. we're TO end. They win be as sbJ
!. dant as apples or peaches in {,
= years. But enough of this. T