The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-02-04
State Gleanings,

State Gleanings,
w. G. Benedict, of Orange Park,
has offered premium, of $25 for the
best sample OF Sea Island cotton, at
the fair.
DR.. Kenworthy has a flower gar
den that is filled with the choicest
flowers, all IN full bloom. 1t is beau
tiful to behold.-UniO'a
A new paper called the Florida
Crescent is now published at Brook
vile, in fernando county, by Fred
L. Robertson.
Mr.. L. A. Barnes showed us this
week branch of citron tree full of
blossoms. Mr.. Barnes is planting
largely OF oranges, lemons, citrons,
ETC., and has one of the finest nurser-
les on his lot in town we have ever
seen.-GdioesvilIe San.
Mr.. B. A. Platt, living two miles
east of this place, has on orange tree
thirty-three years old; the body of
said tree is twenty-eight inches in d.
ameter, top forty feet through. In
1877 he gathered ten thousand or
anges from this single tree Tampa
Tribune.
Of the inhabitants at Orange Park,
twenty one are from Michigan and
nineteen from Vermont, while nearly
every other State is represented, al
though these two States take the
lead. In all there are two hundred
people there but not Smith, Jones,
or Brown, has settled at the Park yet.
The inhabitants had an interesting
time last Saturday when they set out
three rows of live oak trees through
the main avenue leading from the
wbarf.-Sma and Press.
! Wamboldt has displayed in front
of his store elegant oranges from the
grove of J. d. Mitchell, on Indian
river; for color, size and weight we
have seen none in quantities to beat
them. Mr.. Wamboldt has purchased
the crop of the grove and informs us
there are 40, 900 more oranges coming.
He intends TO have Mr.. Mitchell Sc.
lect three boxes for exhibition at the
tair.-Breeze.
A company has been formed at
Mount Pleasant, in this county, for
the purpose of erecting a factory and
introducing the Clement Attachment.
About $1,000 have been subscribed,
and Messrs. Davis & Martin will
leave next Monday for Carolina TO
examine and purchase machinery.
The business IS in the hands Of live
go-ahead men, and before another
cotton crop is gathered, the mill will
be in operation. The firm name Of
the new business will be Z. j. Davis
&c Co.-Quincy Herald.
MIR. Ned West, a colored farmer
near this place, presented us yester-
day with some fine specimens of ripe
Wilson Albany strawberries. Ned
is one of Columbia's most industrious
colored men-not only makes plenty
at home to do his family, but has
plenty to sell and is gradually sur
rounding himself with the luxuries of
/ this life. Every colored farmer
should follow Ned's example and i'm
prove his home and make plenty to
sell-Lake City Reporter.
We learn that with view of con-
filming his attention to the sale and
management Of city real estate, MIR.
Samuel A. Swami has resigned his
office OF Land Commissioner of the
Florida Land and immigration Co.,
and is to be succeeded by Mr.. Chas.
w. Lewis, who has been connected
with him for the past three years as
assistant. Mr.. Lewis will remove his
office about February 1st, to Beach
Street, opposite the Egmont Hotel.
-MirrOr.
We learn that thirty immigrant
wagons arrived at Scott's Mill, III this
county, last week, and are settling in
different sections. They are not all
monied men, but have the bone and
muscle and will to work, which class
are just as acceptable, and meet with
as warm welcome as if they were all
rich. From present indications, it
will not be long before Sumter will
equal any in the State tor wealth and
a population of enviable citizens