Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-01
FROM FLORIDA.

ARRIDoNDo, FLA, October, 1882.
EDITOR LEDaER:-I come again to
tell you the balance Of what / know OF
the Sunny Land and the Land Of
Flowers (when you plant them). /
will now explain why | say when
you plant them" for to a stranger
there are no more flowers (nor as
many as you will see in your city.
Still it is the Land Of Flowers. When
| came here a few years ago five
years. | brought a few bulbs and
flower seeds, and planted them in my
front yard, and Il .day there are more
flowers than when | first planted
them. The same can be said Of the
bulbs; only, to have them cover more
laud, we take of young bulbs from the
side Of the old ones and reset them
The dalia does well here. 1t blooms
early and continuously until the top is
killed with a light frost; but we do
not remove it from the ground, and
the next year it makes an early start.
But now about the flowers. The seeds
are blown all over the yard, both front
and back, and I'll your whole place
with flowers. The morning glory we
consider a nuisance. II left alone they
will take complete possession Of a
field. They look beautiful, but |
prefer the sight in my neighbor's
field You can ramble ar ound in the
wild woods and they will greet you
nearly anywhere. Then, in nearly
every yard where there is any person
living on the place, is 10 be found the
beautiful cape jassamins, the one
usually in our yards are white; they
make quite a large bush, eight or ten
feet across sometimes, and full Of
boomers; and in the wild WOODS there
are plants Of the yellow jassamine,
they grow in vines and entWine them
selves around Whatever is near, and is
one Of the first flowers TO bloom. |
have seen them cover lattice work
about a dwelling, and they bloom
profusely. Again, there is the wild
zeoia, it is to be found nearly any
where, along the side Of roads or In
the fields, aud in their wild state all
are Of one color-purple. dug some
up and made a bed Of them, and they
look beautiful among other flowers;
the same can be said about the passion
flower, and many other kinds that |
do not know the names Of.
Planting sweet potatoes reminds me
OF what | said about planting flowers.
II you plant them once you will have
potatoes on the same place for years,
ifgou want TO. | was at a neighbor's
house a few days ago. He was poinp
to get some potatoes, aud he said be
had planted them three years ago, and
notwithstanding he had a crop OF cab.
bage grown on the same land during The
winter OF each year, when spring came
up same the potatoes and covered the
ground, the same as If there had been
no winter crop on it. And they were
hOed and worked each spring anC
summer as IL just planted. The samC
can be said Of peanuts, IL not dug toe
close, but ] have not known Of persons
adopting this plan with them. Ithinl
l have now succeeded in making ouI
that this is not only the land o.
flowers, but Of potatoes. l will nov
tell you something Of how COWS DE-
here-my ~neighbor, Colonel Perry
experience, q will say that be cam,
here like lots Of us other failures
without money and without price,
but be had, and still has, the pluck
and has succeeded.) Well, about cow
is what | started to talk about. Said
Perry bought one COW for $40, Sh,