The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-19

watermelon, fig, date, apricot, peach,
pvmvs, c...@, ~ necctarine: JananesS plum,
pine apple, banana, grape, cherry,,
strawberry and apple. This latter has
been thought to thrive better in higher
latitude, but l saw in the grove of Ca, t.
Snow, upon the Halifax, apples that
would have done credit to an OHIO Or
chard; strawberries being in advance of
competing markets, command round
sum and brought, in New York, the past
season, ~ per quart.
The orange growth hag perhaps. abb
sorbed more attention than any other
article of culture. These are planted in
the proportion of one hundred to eacn
acre. The wild fruit, planted in the
winter, and budded in July, natures in
from two to three years, according to
the degree of care bestowed. The sweet
seedlings require from six 10 ten years
to fructlty. The average yield per tree
is set down by careful calculators at
one thousand to the mature tree, Some
allow one thousand five hundred, but l
think the fist estimate is the true one.
The market value per thousand Is from
$l5 to 500, SO you see, that with
u grove Of three hundred trees,
which, if properly cared for,
will produce annually, a considerable
annuity, for the orange survives from
sixty to one hundred years. And here
let me undecelye you, as regards very
common error: whenever the bucks ter
cries from his dilapidated Car, "tresh
Florida oranges, only twenty cents a
doZenV pass MIN by; since the lowest
price | nave ever known to be paid for
our oranges is SIS per thousand. 1t
needs but little aritnmetical skill 10 per-
suade you that when the truit has run
the gauntlet OF all the midalemen who
stand between the producer and the
consumer, the tariff will have appre-
ciated somewhat above fractional part
OF one cent. The fruit which they i'm
| pose upon you is the sour orange OF the
Mediterranean, The true Florida Or
ange rates higher than the Havana, and,
indeed, rarely reaches a point north OF
Georgia: since there is at present a
greater demand for our fruit, in the
South alone, than we can meet. The
orange blossoms in February, and re-
qulres the lapse Of time until October TO
perfect It's lruit. 1t bears but once dur /.
| ing the year. Since the fruit is
necessarily piucked in ripe state.
to bear the delay of packing and ship
menG, it stands TO reason that you receive
no adequate conception OF the real lus-
clousness OF this delectable truit,
when ripe upon its parent stem. know
of one instance in which Delmonico paid
for tue lruit-culled from the choicest Of
mature Iruit, and carefully packed in
mOss-25 cents each Tor the golden pip
pins. NoGnlng can be more beautiful
than the orange grove wnen frelghted
with its lrulL. The large, dark green
leaf. against which the golden apple re-
poses, suggests at once coolness anu
richness, while the intoxicating per-
tume, distilled in Natures wonderful
laboratory, is heavy and voluptu )us.
The lemon differs from the orange, in
that il is continually iruited.
The banana, which yields in the Sec
ond year of its life, is also profitable
inVes tment. The smallest yield which
l have known from a single stem was
seventy.tiVe, the largest Two hundred
| aud twenty.nlne.
The hg bears the second year from the
cutting, and yields double harvest. A
| Ilull-groWn tree should yield eacn year
| five bushels OF figs.
The almond, pecan and cocoanut
thrive well. Tea, coffee, olives, dates,
indigo and tobacco also flourish.
The growth of sugar is unexceptiona-
BILE, and the "DunlaWton" Su -ar-works,
Oh the Halifax, AT one time stood peer.
less tor the quality oil sugar.
The blackberry ripens in March and
April.
The waters TEEN with fish of every
known description oysters, turtle,
shrimp and crabs all the year round
SO that your market lies at your very
threshold. Game abounds i'll almost in
finite variety. The black bear, the deer,
rabbits, squirrels, partridges-all these
are common game. Wild ducks of every
species, from the teal to the canvas.
back, frequent our waters bV thousan in
the winter season, and, it Is simply
wholesale murder to shoot them. We
have several varieties OF the heron and
| the crane, the celebrated red flamingo,
| the rose curleW, and many aquatic ioWl.
The two former are distinguished for
a remarkably lovely pIumage, donned
by them in November, to be laid aside
in April. This is quite valuable, and
much sought after.
| Cattle are sold as they run at ST per
head, and beef commands the fabulous
lprice OF 7 cents per pound. W. Il. 2.