The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-04-12
FLORIDA.
Its Orange Groves and Prominent settlements.


! Florida, .lgricu!turjst, Of March 10Th. Aoid
from the very readable account it gives Of til
general business of orange culture in that STAT,
the article will be read with double interest l.
this locality because it refers 50 largely to III
operations and success IN the land Of flower
SPRING GARDEN.
I Wishing to give IA history and description
Of noted groves and thriving settlements, a
far As We can, by observation and through re
liable correspondents, not only in this county
but throughout the state we lately Visited tht
young settlement of Spring Garden near this
place, Seven years ago Major George II. Nor
rs, of Chicago, perceivng at once the valuabl,
advantages OF the locality, purchased a tract o
seven thousand acres, goodly portion o
which is As fertile land IL was ever turned by
pillow. \ large part, too, consisted Of dense
hammock, so thick with IA luXuriant Growth
OF majestic oaks, with cedar, cypress, hickory
and shrubbry of all kinds, gracefully icstOuucG
with the beautiful gray Spanish moss, as &c
obscure the sun, while walking underneath
Scattered through this hammock here and
there are acres OF sour orange trees in countless
numbers, from the lofty tree, hOary with age
to the youthful sapling, and down to the little
tender shoot, so thickly growing under the
shade OF the surrounding grow III ao 10 form u
carpet of verdu' ! Kc Il field of young grain.
With the re. ay instinct ana courage of It
thorough business man, Major Norris cut at
once into the heart of this hammock and open
ell up these different patches OF wild orange
groves, and, selecting the best trees Tor bud
ding, thnncd out the rest to give them room
To grow. The work wa, Titanic and the cX-
,.,..l lt,
realized and, before long. will be most ample.
Seven years ago he purchased traCklcSS, viz,
GIN hammock; now he has vigorous thrifty
orange groves, numbered from one to eleven,
with roads and paths cut from one 10 Inc other.
A large number OF these trees, twenty or more
feet high, not one older than II seven wears bud,
are as fine growth a. we nave ever seen, are
yielding remarkably and will bear well. Three
years ago his tour year old buds began to bear
and from these comparatively recent begin
ningN he, last year shipped over 100000 or
angcs. His lemon trees, too are rapidly ma
turing, and from the many nc has already ship
ped he has received handsome returns
one of his most successful experiments, was
to remove to better location, aud in grove
fOrn 1870 large ami old trees, some just ready
to bloom and bear But very few seemed even
wItcd, and he stoutly maintains that many
tn,I and cost H.. L,. [.}norod ONT AND Corcnd
Soma. 900 or,n. ,,,,I h.,- h"I ,nIioJ n.,,I ,Lo
chnicn.t v,,ir,i.. ~, ,r,rnn. ,,nJ ir,nnn. tLor.
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warrant his belief scattered all through the
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