The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-12-17
FLoRIDIANA.

lne Jacksonville Herald has been EN-
larged. We are pleased to see such signs
ofprosperity.
4 new paper has been started at En-
pOTia, Nolusia County, called the En-
porjG Gosetfc, Edited by Messrs l.. IL.
EldriGSe and :. Il. Wilson. This makes
SIX papers IL the county.
There is in this county near Green
wood and the Long Moss spring pur-
pie rock which was, during the war, used
as dye-stnif for the home made goods.
This rock is, at the present day, unno-
ticed, but might be utilized.-No.Gdaad
Times.
Nearly every one who expects office
under the new administrations are setting
their stakes Tor places where little work
Is to he done Ter a handsome salary.
After awhile they will be circulating
petitions Tor appointment 10 some cross
roads hip.-jdidttG Ae,rS.
1t Is positively asserted that the Palat-
ka and SANFORD connection viii be finish
ed al once. No one supposed for a
moment thai after all the work that has
been done ON this road it would be ADAM
doned. The bridge eight miles above
Pala1ka has been the most expensive and
difficult part OF the work. Soon the trains
Pa}a5ku Herald.
Whatever may be said by outsiders re-
gardinS the growing OF oranges in this
region, it is fact that there are many
prolific groves hereabout, one of which
Is the Fair Oaks grove owned by Col. c.
H. Foster, from which between , 800 and
5000 boxes of fine fruit have already
been shipped this season, by Mr.. J. Is.
N-.-o4r cbar,-n of tbp fllacn
The Hendrix grove, of ten year old seed
lings, Just coming into bearing promises
10 surpass any grove of its age in any sec
ton of the State both in appearance and
productiveness.-Md Progress.
The cocoanut tree donated by Mr.. John
White, OF Key West, for the New Or
leans Exposition has been sent there by
Commissioner Sebring. The tree is a
full grown twenty-five year old cocoanut
tree, thirty-tiye feet high and two feet in
diameter at the trunk, with about one
hundred cocoanuts, ranging from the
size of an egg to the fully developed nut
The tree was rooted up with pulleys from
two masts. The germ nut from which it
grew was found intact under its roots,
and sent also with the tree.-JdcksCBciUe
Herald.
The sorrel plants introduced from the
Bahamas last year by George Butler are
now ripening their fruit, and those who
were fortunate enough to secure plants
find themselves in possession of a new
fruit in Florida, which promises to be a
very valuable one. 1t is prepared in
preserves, jam and Jelly, and is pro-
nounced by all who have testedit as the
equal of cranberries, from which in its
prepared state, it is hard to distinguish
it. It has succeeded so we'll here that Mr..
Butler is planning to put out two acres
of it next season.-Orlando Reporter.
One of the large enterprises of this sec
ton, of which but little is known, is the
extensive young lemon grove of II. S.
kedney, on Lake Apopka. probably
has the largest lemon grove i'll the State.
1t consists of three thousand trees, all
OF the choicest varieties, and is situated
upon an especially eligible spot on the
margin of the great lake, where there is
the finest water protection, and where
frosts are almost unknown. These trees
are all budded upon orange stocks and
Mr.. Kedney confidently expects, and
not without good reason, that the grove
grove of equal extent in Florida.-Orlda-
DO Reporter.
Mr.. II. 7. Adkins, of the lower part of
the county was in our office this week,
and being questioned about the crops in
his section said he raised ono acre of
landl5 bushels of fine rice and bushels
OF corn; on l-16th of an acre fifty lbs. of
tobacco. Mr.. w. Sketo of the same To-
cality, raised Oh 4 of an acre over one
hundred pounds of as fine tobacco as one
could wish to see anywhere. Wecall at
tention to some cane, that we thought
very fine, it being intended for the Expo
sition; when Mr.. Adkins informed us
that one of his neighbors, a Mr.. Luke
Sumlin, has cane twice as good as the
specimens mentioned, which was raised
on natural land" He also informed us
that the crop of field peas was unusually
good.-Mdrid,,nd Times.
Laurence c. Johnson ESQ.,, Assistant
CIeologist of U. s. Geological Survey, is
in Tallahassee, having arrived from
Washington to go on duty in geological
survey of Florida. 1t is with no little
qualification that we make this announce
ment, and it will be welcome informa-
ton for many who have long desired to
know the result of geological research by
one who stands so well in his profession
as Mr.. Johnson. He will remain in the
State for several months to come and be
joined i'll his work by another member of
the Survey; and after a trip to Washing
ton to report, to write up observations,
classify. specimens, etc., will return to
the State to continue his Investigations.
We scarcely expect that he will find gold
mines, but it is not unlikely that he may
discover what will bring gold, as phos-
phatic deposits, for instance. Our people
will take much interest in his work.
They know what is above ground in our