The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1885-04-15
FLORIDIANA.

The city OF Sanford has laid a tax on
dogs.
The Leon Hotel, at Tallahassee. has
been destroyed by fire.
Work has commenced on the Enter.
prise and Titusville Railroad.
We have received the first number of
the kasSammee Leader, which promises
to be valuable addition to our State
Press.
Don't bury man before he is dead.
The Lake Eustis Semi- Tropical comes
out In mourning on April 4th, for Gener-
al Grant.
gentleman from Pennsylvania has
purchased fifty acres of land ON Char
lotte Harbor for the purpose of landscape
gardening, growing roots and bulbs, and
other tropical and sub-tropical plants to
supply northern hot houses and others
with Florida grown plants.-Pine Level
Times.
According to all reports the Narcoossee
colony, some fifteen miles east of ks
simmee, is making very rapid as well
as substantial growth. We are informed
that there are about dozen dwellings
completed and occupied, and some five
or SIX in course of construction.
SimDaee Leader.
The schooner VIM. f. Perry, which
sailed from here for Mobile about ten
days since, touched at Safety Harbor,
the extreme head of Old Tampa BAY,
and took on there 10000 oranges. pur-
chased in the neighborhood by Messrs.
Hinckley & Fuller. The schooner was
drawing at the time feet of water, and
is the largest vessel that ever entered
the Harbor. She will take another cargo
from the same place next week. These
trips give the people of the West side
another outlet to market and furnish
another evidence of the enterprise of a
Tampa firm.-Tdmpa Tribune.
There are now fifty-seven brands of
fertilizers sold in our State. Many of
these are worthless in the comparative
degree; others are merely sponges into
which our hopes are absorbed. If our
legislators insist on long session, they
could not do better than turn their atten-
ton towards the prevention of some
frauds in this direction on our farmers
and fruit growers. A bill carefully drawn
might save many thousands of dollars
annually to the producers of Florida,
and save time and hopes even more val
liable to the State. 1t is well known that
several brands now sold extensively on
the st. Johns River were withdrawn
from the market in Georgia as soon as
that State provided for the inspection of
these frauds by an expert. Reputable
merchants will also be saved much
trouble and loss in the detection of these
plunderers. We invite the attention of
law makers to the evil.-Pal.tka News.
In many instances where the growing
of some vegetables have been noticed,
the fact appears that they were raised on
hammock land. Our exchanges have
been pleased to notice the report of a
turnip which was raised away off il
some out of the way place that measured
twenty-five inches in circumference, and
we have noticed that the size of the
same has increased some two inches
since it first started. 1t has at last reach
ed us-or rather a turnip that was actu
ally raised upon pine land, about two
miles from Eustis, by Mr.. +. G. Rehrer.
This turnip in question measures TWEEN
ty-four inches in circumference by actual
measurement, and when it was brought
to our office few days ago, there came
with it some lettuce, the finest we have
seen in this section, and it was also
raised on pine land We have in this
section pine land on which can be grown
successfully vegetables and small fruits,
as well as oranges and other fruits of the
citrus family .-Semi- Tropical