The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-06-01

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low, moist and rich. The water does
not average more than three feet be.
low the surface, and he attributes his
success on such low land to saving the
palmetto trees, high setting, trench
ing between the trees and careful
cultivation.
An example of a young grove at
Ormond, six miles north of last
named place, will show what can be
done on high land. This land, though
high, is totally different from pine
land, having supported a heavy
growth of hard wood. JAS Carnell,
native OF New Britain, Connect
cut, is the owner, and his method was
as follows: Holes three feet across,
two feet deep, top soil being placed
one side and carefully mixed with
one half barrel OF compost composed
of three parts well rotted leaf mould
and muck, and one part hard wood
ashes. This mixture filed the holes
nearly to the surface; then the tree
was set, with the addition OF the bot
tom soil which had been placed on
one side, this soil being tree from
trash and vegetable matter being best
to pack about the roots. The tree,
when set, stool with collar about one
INCH above the general level of the
ground. Trees were three years old
sour seedlings, 100 set February 26th
and 100 February 28th, 1880-tops
entirely cut off. In few weeks the
trees started, but having only lin
tied amount Of the variety Of wood
with which he wished To bud he
tried but tifty-two trees, the bark
slipping on forty-nine out of the fifty
two, showing that the trees liked
their new position aud had become
established in it, and were about to
start vigorous new growth. Now
IN less than one year from setting
they are all budded with sthe.. varier
ties desired, and will make a heavy
growth the ensuing season; those
first budded already having fine tops
One bud for instance showing a
growth OF twenty-three inches in six
weeks after it was put in.
Since the above was penned TOUR
OF his trees have bloomed
Mr.. VIM. G. Bennett, i've miles
west of Ormond, in 1879 from a
grove of 400 seedlings planted fifty
each year commencing in the fall of
1870 (last planting beng in winter OF
II ami 7S] picked $4,000 oranges
from sixty trees, out of 100 in all
that had borne any up to that time.
Plne-apples have proved successful
on John Anderson's tarm on the
Peninsula opposite Ormond. Three
rows twenty-tour feet long and three
feet apart (making the plot 24x9 teet)
netted $40 the past summer. They
are set IN raised beds ot Leaf mould,
the beds being held up by boards
eight inches wide set each side, leav-
ing narrow walk between each
row. This bed holding the tertili-
zer, saving trouble in working and
keeping the plant up where it is less
injured by getting sand or trash in
the bed. The plants are worked once
a year and fertilized once with
"Walton Whaun & Co.'s Raw Bone
Super. phosphate. Those plants, pro.
tected by a shelter of pine boughs
were uniDjured in the late freeze and
many OF them are truiting at the
present time. Plants set last sum.
mer will fruit next. One plant set
last summer fruited in less than six
months from time OF setting. We
would add that Mr.. A. claims TO own
the poorest piece OF land in Florida.
Two miles above the last named
place, and also on the Peninsula, Mr..
ii: ID. Stewart, formerly OF Louis
vile, KY, set, in hammock land, in
1876, sixty banana plants. They
commenced bearing in thirteen
months from time OF setting, bearing
that year twenty punches. In 1878
they bore thirty.tive punches, and in
1879 forty lunches The frost of '76
and n killed leaves and fruit but not
the stalks, and they bore the follow.
ing summer.
Mr.. J. ID. Mitchell, formerly of
pennsylvania, has proved the guava
to be well worth attention in this
latitude, as at his place on the PENN.
sula, nearly opposite Daytona, he has