The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-11-09
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of mistakes, failures enough to dis,
courage most any one. My labor has
not been a financial success. but il
has done vast deal Of good at home
and for that alone I would continue
10 plant, and with the experience that
has cost me SO dearly | certainly ex>
pect better success. [ made a success
OF strawberries the past season and
for "Myrtle's" benefit | will tell how
L did IT. / got some Wilson Albany
plants tour years ago, and worked
with them two years and got no Der.
fles to amount TO anything. They
bloomed proGnsely and put on very
little fruit, not one plant in a dozen
made good berries. All a, once it
struck me that my plants were mix
ed and Oh examination found that
they were nearly all male plants
pulled all OF that kind right up, and
now have good plants to work with
My ground was low sanuy ham,
mock not more than one and a half
feet above water, and had haan
thrown up in beds the spring pre-,
vlous and was grown up in CRAB grass.
With sharp hoe cut and packed
all the grass between the old RIDGES
and then bedded on it. After it Sci.
tied down few days raked the ton
off and set two rows of plants on
each bed the first week in November
last. They began to bear in Febru-
AIRY and continued TO bear until the
middle OF July; and from small
patch l got enough Tor my family
and many quarts TO SELL kept the
| alch well worked until they COM
menced to put out runners in July.
and now have quantities of fine plants
which l am setting out in the same
manner as fast as my multitudinous
duties will let me. | am pIantino
| them IN the same manner have
not used any manure on them. They
need an abundance of water, and thev
grow on land that is too wet tor anv
other garden crop and seem to de-
hight IN spot IN my patch that once
or twice last June had TO put on
my gum boots to pick them.
These low hammocks are cold and
the plne lands o: course will give the
earliest fruit; but the plants on low
ground are still giving us their trnr
while those Oh the pine lands have
forgotten to bear, or have on,;rolr,
succumbed TO drouth and ta;tnd ~
even make plant tor the tall settioo
DO not use the old plants, nor those
SO young as to have only white roofs
In my moist ground 1 seldom fail to
take up some dirt with them which
gives them good start. Old land
Is best. Let Myrtle patiently wait
hereafter on her new plants until Oc.
lober, and she will not have much
difficulty In transplanling them. lam
worklng still under the i'muck delu-
sion" and expect TO for some time.
In selecting a home in Florida with a
view to It's best comforts, a person
ought to get piece of good pine
land, some high hammock and some
bay land, if possible, lying adjoining
to his pine land This is hard to do
now. The high hammock can scarce.
ly be had at any price; but the bavs
with pine land adjoining are still
plentiful.
Our settlement is having the big
gest kind OF boom now. The brancn ia
road from the S. +. r. r. to, Apop.
ka City and Lake, is being surveyed
right through the settlement and six.
ty or more hands are cutting ties.
The Company expect the road to be
ready to carry off this crop of oran,
ges,-The Apopka merchants are
wide awake and have already enlarg.
ed there stores. The Baptist church
there has secured the services of DR..
Mays, Jacksonville. He is also the
teacher Of their tlourishing school OF
over eighty scholars.
Settlers are beginning TO come in.
Ourincreased facilities of importation
good lands, good society, etc, will
induce them TO come faster now and
cast their lot with ms = ID -