Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-07-08
PINEILAS. June %. 1850.

IN E1<AzAO, - ulic -, AOCO.
Ed. OBsERvER-Having Civ
en- you an article, in the interest
of inyaIids, ON the beauty and
healthfulness of our region of
Florida, ] now proceed to adj
dress myself to the matter Of
semi-tropical fruit as adopted to
our particular spot of terra trina.
By a glance at the map it will
be seen that our peninsula is
scarcely within the frost line,
with The additional advantage
of being girt by the warm wal
ter of the Gulf stream. This
secures us from the possible ruin
wrought by rigorous winters and
the consequent defeat attendant
upon orange growing in the more
northern ATTITUDES of the State.
Here one may plant trees with
the absolute certainty of success.
Time and labor are the two fac
tors that are necessary to devel-
ope an embryo grove into bear
ing, which, when secured, is Il
competency to the grower and
his children after him. But less
attention is now being given
to oranges than formerly, for
the reason that lemons will pay
better. Lemons are more pro-
life and can be grown in less
than half the time. They are
more available in market. They
make the most delicious bever-
age, while their medicinal uses
can scarcely be exaggerated.
With the face of the Earth
checkered with railroads and the
flight of locomotives to the rim
Of the horizon, there can be no
limit to their consumption. The
time must come when lemons
will be in the, hands of 'the
million" as they are now in the
hands of the few. This will be
the millennium of the worlds civ
ilization, when the equal distri-
tributlon Of its good things shall
have been attained. Coincident
with this, let us hope that an
equilibrium will be established
in the moral forces which UNDER
lie the worlds happiness, so that
government will be secure and
mankind content. War is the
offspring of want, and is the
twin-brOther to the storm in the
natural world. Poverty is abb
normal and need not be in the
midst of plenty. Florida is an
easy country to live in; and yet,
by no means, an asylum for "the
lame and the lazy" 1t needs a
vast outlay of capital and labor
to develope its latent resources.
There are no bread trees here,
nor rivulets of milk and honey.
Our maximum of good is, as yet,
q matter of hope, TO be realized
in the future; and time and acOrk
the magicians that are to make
the waste and solitary places
blossom as the rose. In the re-
mote future this country is bound
to be one vast orange and lemon
grove, dense, continuous and un-
ending; and the ffuit-growers
will be the happiest, because es-
sentially the richest, people on
Earth. Now, then, is the time
for pioneers, men of means, men
who will persistently work and
wait, men of snap and VIM and
keen prophetic eyes that see the
silver lining in every cloud.
Fair-weather birds, or weaklings
easily discouraged, are not wan.
ted. To get an orange grove one
must deserve TIT is the guer-
don and reward of such as pluck
from the hand ofFortune.
Our soil is not suited to agricul-
5ure; it is distinctively adapted
to fruit; and an attempt to grow
else is a diversion from
.he main idea that will not pay.
We can grow potatoes and 9th
II garden truck, can send early
vegetables to northern markets,
out this is simply auxiliary
20 the great business Of fruit
growing, stcpping-stones to the
good time coming when all the
infant groves shall have come
nto bearing. There are many
Kinds of fruit to be grown here,
'uch as the guayer, mango apple,
llligator pear, dc. But this let
er is already long enough, and
With this | close my dcsultory
crawl, promising to do better
lext time. X. Il. NEELD.
Tell God.