The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-04-26


Levy. Baker, Nassau, Duval, Bradford
Clay, st. Johns, Putnam and Marion.
WEST FLoRIDA-Is composed of the cOun-
ties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Washington
Walton, Holmes, Jackson and Calhoun.
MIDDLE FLORIDA-Is composed of the
counties of Gadsden, Liberty, Franklin
Leon, Wakulla, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor.
Lafayette and Hamilton.
SOUTH FLoRIDA-Is composed of the
counties of fernando, Sumter, Orange
Volnsia, Brevard, Polk, Hillsborough, Man
aztec Monroe and Dade.
Mr.. Holmes of this town, has a
Mango tree 4 years old, which bore
last year 116 fruit. At present there
are 500 fine young fruit on the tree,
and Mr.. Holmes has promised the
Editor OF this paper a basket of the
fruit as soon as ripened.-PrOgreSs
DR.. j. B. Henion, of Rochester, N,
Y, with other capitalists, have pur.
chased thirty acres of ground near
Lake Eustis, upon which is to be
erected sanitarium, with frontage
of 800 feet, with two wings $50 feet
in Orange County Reporter.
Mr.. Geo. N. Lee, who has just re-
turned from trip to Hillsborough
County, informs US that he saw
down there, on the place OF Mr.. 3
Platts, an orange tree that meas
ured two feet in diameter and thirty
feet through the branches.-Sunater
-A0yG1oce.
The Goodbread early peach prom.
Uses large crop this season. These
peaches mature the LIST of June and
are of most delicious flavor. We are
glad there are more being planted
each year. They grow rapidly; MIR.
Adolphus Brooks informs us that he
has trees blooming this year planted
two years ago from the seed.-Loke
City Reporter.
Mrs. Higgins, of "Moonstone"
Grove, short distance below Palat-
ka, recently shipped 81 boxes OF Or
anges north, netting $163 on the lot,
or an average of about $7.75 per box,
And still captious northern cities in.
sist that orange growing does not
pay! actual results speak louder than
2aE per ard INK Qpposition R.Es=
nam County Journal.
New York, April 14,-Ex United
States Senator Mcdonald, Hugh J.
Jewett of the Erie Railroad, A. S.
Sullivan of New York, and Milton
Taplor Of Cincinnati, have organized
the Florida Mill, Land and Lumber
Company, with capital of 100000.
They have purchased 625,O00 acres
in three of the Gulf counties OF Flor
ida, from which they propose to take
yellow pine for shipment to New
York. - Exchange.
Eight and a half inches is the Cir
conference of Tahita lime grown
nv r. p. Wescott of this town. and
laced on exhibition in the Reportey
Office. There were others but a
trifle smaller, but the dimensions
above given will give an idea of what
his fruit will do. 1t is the coming
frnit OF South Florida, and should be
extensively cultivated Orlando Re.
porter.
B. f. Ives, Esq, commission mer>
chant of Chicago, and who, for the
past month, has been enjoying the
inequalities of the De Yarman House
has been the champion fisherman of
the season; about IS pounds, more
or less, is his days work at Blue
Springs; he is now thinking OF open.
ing q fishery at this place early in
the fall Orange Citv Times.
There are several claimants for the
honor of having the largest orange
tree in Florida. Several men have
claimed the largest tree in Orange
county. But we are inclined to the
opinion that D. B. Stewart, of Apop
ka, carries the antlers in the matter
OF large trees. He has one about
twenty years old-a seeding which
stands where the seed was planted
by his father twenty years ago-which
measures six feet and four inches in
circumference three feet above the
ground. 1t is thrifty and Vigorous
looking tree, and has produced
an average of about four thousand
oranges per annum for number OF
years. Such tree would pay an an
nual interest on four hundred dollars
at ten per cent, after deducting
enough to cover the care and cost OF
ferlilizing.- Orlando Reporter.
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