The Florida agriculturist., 1882-04-12
WaY-Side Notes.

Editor of The Florida Agriculturist:
We are having a dry spell and at
present everything in this vicinity is
suffering for want of water. Facilities
for irrigation would be appreciated
now by those who have garden.
Lettuce is on the standstill and has
grown tough with age without
maturing large tomatoes look well
but young ones feel the effects of
the drouth; onions hold their own
we'll in spite OF the weather; Irish
potatoes, turnips, mustard, ETC., are
brown and dead; poke or pigeon
berry is green and thrifty, don't
seem to mind anything about the
weather, and we like it as well as
mustard, and much better than turnip
tops that are so much used here.
Mulberries are ripe now and they
give us treat when other things are
scarce; they are unlike any we ever
saw North, much larger and finer
favored. We make pies OF them
and they are nice preserved. The
trees grow very quickly and better
fruit for home consumption could
hardly be found; no one should fail
to have few trees, they grow easily
from cuttings. No one in this vicin-
ity has been very successful in maxi
ing a garden amount to much on
new land. They deaden the timber
in most cases, and it takes nearly
wear to die. We saw some very
large turnips and beets raised on land
plowed for the first time, that had
been heavily cowpenned-plenty ma
nure OF the right kind will tell
Those who have been wonderfully
successful in these things should let
their light shine, but give no uncer-
tain sound nor awaken hopes that
will soon be blasted. Let the new
conner find things better than he ex-
pected, tor he had rather be agree>
ably disappointed than the reverse.
we nave mad very sudden death
among us; Mr.. Thomas j. Hinson,
seventy-pine years Of age, was we'll
as usual on the morning that he was
taken insensible without moments
warning. He lay tor day and night
with his eyes closed and breathing
quite hard; toward the last he com.
menced to breathe easier until the
breath left MIN. He was Christian
and there is hopes in his death. His
companion is left in her old age, be.
reft of the company of him who has
tor so many years stood by her side;
together they have enjoyed the com-
forts and battled with the ills of life.
Hard it is in old age to be LETT alone,
although there are many children and
grandchildren, yet none can supply
the vacant place, no matter how
many may gather around her, with>
out him she feels alone, and her only
comfort is in looking forward to the
time when she shall join him who has
gone perhaps only little while be-
fore. Mr.. Cullen Bowel, Of nearly
the same age and an old resident
here, also died last winter. He leaves
large family to mourn his loss.
w uGuCtOI LuOAO W"o PAS0NhAbS oO
the log church in the scrub, you
would find him there. Many lad
and lass has learned from him the
first principles of the musical scale,
but his place will be found no more
in our midst. His days of usefulness
are over and he has gone the way we
are all fastening. Very seldom we
have to record the death OF the
young among us, everything here
seems favorable for keeping off dis"
ease; while the young may escape
the old cannot. The fountain OF
youth" consists not in literal water
but in keeping the heart pure. Time
may touch the outer man while per-
petual youth dwells within. IT old
Ponce de Leon could have under.
stood this, he would not have sought
for that fountain in vain.
/ have noticed that most Florida
women look old and wrinkled before
their time; many have sallow com.
plexion and the children also. This
1 find is owing. in most cases to their