The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-03-24
MARCH "a

number of pine-apples in bloom.
Remember the Agricultural Picnic at
Captain Kinks tomorrow Thursday.
A good many travellers for CONNER
cial houses have visited this place lately.
Mr.. J. Y. Parce has charge of Mr..
W. D. Davis place, to plant out a
grove.
The young ladies and gentlemen have
been getting up pic-nics almost every
week.
Some of the small orange trees, set
out a month ago, in Mr.. Burnham's
grove are blossoming.
Mrs, Maynard and family are now
stopping at their grove home at Spring
Garden.
Mr.. Conklin has got the DeLand saw
mill in running order and is getting out
lumber
Mr. Wheeler has over 80 trees in his
grove blossoming for the first time. and
Captain Jordan has over twenty in
bloom.
d. P. Graves, Esq, Colonel Spauld-
ing and Mr.. Dayarman, of Orange City,
visited this place last week.
There was good attendance at the
meeting of the Mite Society last Friday
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Terry, and very agreeable time was
passed.
We intend placing this paper in the
reading rooms of large number of
summer resorts during the season, where
it will be kept on file. No better adver-
Using medium can be found.
sMessrs, Nanz Il Neuner, nurserymen
of Louisville, KY, have a number of
rare and choice plants for sale suited to
this climate. Send for their catalogue.
The following citizens of this neigh
borhood have left to pass the summer
with their friends in other states. Mrs.
G. W. Lancaster and daughter, of De-
Land; Mrs. John Cannon, of Beresford;
B. F. Haines, Esq. and family, of
Spring Garden.
Mr.. A. L. Eichelberger, of Ocala, has
sold one of his groves in Sumter county
to H. D. Sayers, Esq, of n. Y, gen.
tleman of great wealth who already
owns large properties in Florida. The
price paid was $4,000. Advertising in
THE FLORIDA AGRICULTUR1sT made this
sale.
Most OF the newspapers are raising
the price of subscription on account of
the rise in the price of paper. We are
not going to do SO, for our paper is con-
Quoted entirely on cash basis. We
are now printing on better paper, at
quite cost. The cash system enables
us to pay it,
W. S. Holden, Esq, of Covington,
Ky, and Mrs. Holden are now on
visit and stopping at o. P. Terry's. Mr.,
Holden has very promising grove at
Beresford. forty of the orange
trees having bloomed this year. They
are delighted with the climate and
pleased with the place.
We are particularly pleased with the
class of subscribers that take this paper.
They seem as much interested in every.
thing new that may develop the country
as ourselves. We get extracts, letters,
and marked copies of newspapers with
articles suited to our columns, from all
parts of the United States. It shows
that they are interested by what we are
publishing. Thanks to them,
Mrs. j. W. Flick of Shoudsburg,
Pa, left last week. She has been spend.
ing the winter in DeLand with her
brother, Mr.. Kilkoff, and made herself
so agreeable that her departure is felt
as loss by the community in general.
We hope. however, to see her next fall.
She has improved wonderfully in health
by her visit to this place.
A. A. Leveric h, ESQ.,, of Brooklyn,
n Y, has purchased the orange grove
of Mr.. Harrison Jones, near Beresford,
for $40, 900 cash. There are 100 bear
ing trees and several hundred just about
to bear, and $50 acres of the best vari-
ETY. of pine land. Mr.. Leverich has got
a desirable place that will soon be worth
three times the price, and Mr. Jones