The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-27

speeding his utter extinction. But
the poor "'gator" as he is called, is
unfortunate in the beauty OF his den.
tai furnishing. The curio ity
gatherer hunts him, shoots him, be-
heads him, totes" his head to Jack.
senville, has the teeth extracted and
placed in the hands OF ieweller.
From the hand OF this cunning work
man the teeth appear in the show
case, reversed and banded together
for breast pin, hooked up for an
ear appendage, linked together for
cuff buttons, suspended from the
head of scarf pins, mounted on orange
walking sticks. while the larger ones
are lined with glass or porcelain,
capped with g"id, suspended by
gold chains and rings, and hung up
under the name "vnegarette. This
may be fun for the dealer, but it
means death for the gator. The
poor old fellow does not seem to
have even jobs little show of escape
tor it is with the skin Of his teeth"
that he is doomed to extinction.
A pleasant ride of about fifteen
hours brought us to DeLand Land.
ing. The old landing was on Lake
Berestord, the new one is on the east
side Of the st. Johns river, 165 miles
from Jacksonville. The village of
DeLand is about five miles from the
river, and about twenty five miles
from the coast, on what is known as
the Orange Ridge Of Volusia
County"--a belt of high rolling pine
land, five miles wide and twenty
miles long. The town was founded
by H. A. DeLand, of Fairport, New
York, 1876. It's growth has been
rapid, and apparently, healthtul.
Many pleasant homes have been
built upon its wide. and well ar
ranged streets. The inhabitants are
intelligent, social and enterprising.
They have good school. Meas the
center of the town is q printing Office,
I where editor CodTlngton makes the
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where we found the Religious He
raid several days in advan ;e of US,
announcing our coming and Inform
ing the villagers of our call in Rich
mond. Three religious Societies are
already so we'll represented that each
contemplates building a church at
once. The site for the Baptist
Church has been selected, and pre-
paration for building will probably
be begun during Mr.. DeLand's pre-
sent visit there. Business in the
stores three in number--the shops,
and at the saw mill, seemed brisk.
Orange groves of one, five, ten,
twenty acres each SUR ound the town.
The land is being rapidly taken up
by capitalists for the cultivation of
the orange and tor winter homes.
The rapidity with which some OF the
lots have been cleared, planted and
converted into home, is marvellous.
Mr.. j. W. Hartley, from New AL
bany, Indiana, took up a forty acre
lot the latter part OF last October.
The lot, of course, VAS covered with
large pine trees. Now, the whole
is fenced, twenty acres cleared, eight
acres set to trees from tLree TO five
years old, neat house and barn
have been built, a garden planted,
and the whole having the appear
ance of a home comfortably old,
while, in tact, it is only FIVE months
out OF the woods. Noting this TACT,
one can easily believe the statement
that about 1000 acres have already
been set to oranges and lemons in
this little township; and it is just
about as easy to believe that soon
the village oil DeLand will be in the
midst OF one vast grove. The soil
seems peculiarly adapted to the pros
ductlon OF the orange and lemon, yet
editor Codrington is proving the
possibilities of the soil 10 produce a
great variety OF fruits and vegeta
bIes. He has about his neat home
lover forty varieties OF the citrus
family, with other trees and plants
in such number and of such variety
that he says he will be able soon to
gather fresh ripe fruit every day in
the year. The peach and mulberry
seem quite at home beside the
orange and, with little care, the
fg, pine apple and bananas seem to
forget that they are not in purely