The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-01-28

On That.
Just now Florida Is undergoing = periodical
panic. For several years slic has been rraubg
about the frost line, An imaginary ooondasy
which was supposed to cross her sandy CONAN
somewhere. but nobody knew where. The COLO
snap of 1SS0-16S1 gives this frost line idea TERRI
bic black eye but il reserved tor the late coia
breeze 10 knock it into kingdom come. Hereto
fore this aforesaid frust line WAS supposed 10
cross the State in the neighborhood OF daines-
vile, but the late I'D went 2OO miles soutn Oh
that point, and SO the reckoning must be had
over In the meantime, those who have adopted
the first theory, aud who planted orange groves
must aud do suffer for the miscalculailon.
Their groves are black, their hopes are gone,
and their money-well We suppose n part ot that
is gone too.
In striking contrast to the nipped hopes of the
Florida orange grower, is happy man who "as
a bearing IcConte pear grove. and mere are
many such in this community. We have long
known that the orange fever Of the Land oil
Flowers" would some day reach a climax, u mas
come and the business has got black eye.
The LeConte pear can show pront equai 10
that cIrtmed for the orange, and removed from
the chances OF frost and cold. Moral: Plant
pear grove.
We had intended to write an exhoriive article
Oh the pear, the especial prOtege OF lhomasvliie,
for 10 days issue, but lack OF space fornios'
Next week we will write the matter up.-1hom
ascille Enterprise
Our esteemed contemporary Is but
one of sundry Georgia papers obviously
much gratiied by the misfortune which
befell Florida, and we presume that they
will be correspondingly displeased when
time shall prove that the misfortune was
but temporary, and will scarcely check
the progress of our State. 1t would be
better, however, for them to prepare
their minds to accept with Chris
tian resignation the fact OF an
| orange crop next year which Will
prove that the black eye" is not as
black as they paint it, and apparently
hope it is AS to the LeConte pear, II
there is any fruit tree which fourishes
better than another in this section, and a
wide extent of other Florida territory, IT
is that. In no part of Georgia can it at
tain greater perfection than it does IL
Florida So in addition to the orange
which may sometimes be damaged, we
have also the LeConte pear, even though
it is the "protege Isle J of Thomasville!
We will read with interest that article
which is to be d" erhOrtiUe whatever
that may mean in this Georgian's langu
age, and to find out what it does mean
for there is no such word in the Florid:
language.
Let us believe, as we do, that the en-
vious lttleness of spirit displayed by
some is not the common sentiment of oul
good ncighbors across the line. will
whom We hope to be more closely con
nected, for mutual benefit. A boundar,
line between cotcrmnous States o
the South should work no social division
of the people or restraints upon their in
terests, but merely mark the limits o.
governmental authority. 1t is better 70
any State to be the ncighbor Of ricl
State than of poor State, aud each ma,
well rejoice in prosperity that canno
be tied up within boundary lines bu
must in part overflow into the other
Florida is glad to have sucn a neighbo
as the great Empire State of the South,
and far from envying, admires her exam
pie and aspires to initiate her progress
and in this she is aided by an element O
her population more numerous than tina
from any other State, the Georgans Dor
who are among her most enterprisinl
and prominent citizens, and are out-num
bercd only by Floridians born. Florid
would not he hurt so badly by fort
freezes as by Georgia calling in her sons