Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-03

l stated facts, and am convinced that many l who go to Florida in the winter for health | would find themselves doubly benefited if | they would prolong their sojourn through the summer. One seldom sees better spec imen of strong and healthy woman than | Mrs. Captain M., whose beautiful home is | less than half mile from my cottage among ! the lakes, and whose husband brought her here about ten years ago apparently broken down consumptive.
 My midsummer soiourn in Florida gave i me a better opportunity than have had at other seasons to see and to realize the capa- bilities of it's soil for the growth of all sorts of fruits and vegetables. At this season the | rapidity of the growth of vegetation is al- most marvellous. "Cow peas," which are l sown as clover in the North, to be ploughed under for fertilizing the soil, were planted I two inches above ground. I measured cer- ! tain branches of orange trees for several days ! in succession and found 8 growth of from one and oAe-half to two inches in twenty four hours-in one case seven and one-half inches in live daysl This seems almost in credible until one reflects that the ground has now all the conditions of 8 hot bed. With the earth so hot during the day as al- most to scorch your feet, and frequent show CTS, vegetation must grow rapidly.
 I was more than ever impressed during 1 this visit with the wonderful capabilities of | the G01l or E1Of1Q8. eOMD1Q6Q W1IQ LQ6 COAX | ing qualities of it's climate, for the growth of all sorts of fruits and vegetables. It has been considered the peculiar home of the or angs, and most of the settlers from the North have made the mistake of bestowing l their sole attention upon the planting of l groves. The consequence has been that very ! many, becoming discouraged at the long waiting for the maturing of their trees, and \ at the unlocked for labor and expense at tending their proper cultivation, have aban- | doned their groves after receiving perhaps | less than one-half their cost in time and money.
 Now, however, experience is showing that \ the soil is adapted to the successful growth ! not only of peaches, pears, plums and oth- CT northern fruits, but also and especially | to the growth of almost all kinds of vege- | tables found in our northern markets, with ! the added advantage of such an early ma \ turing as to make them very valuable for shipping to our northern cities.
 Before leaving Florida I returned to l Jacksonville for day, which happened to be that on which began the fearful and \ senseless panic on account of the yellow | fever. call it a senseless panic; it was almost 1udicrous. Men were met upon the
 street rushing frantically for the railway station, in some cases offering valuable property at little more than half it's value, | that they might have no occasion ever to enter again the plague snitten city. What city in the North of the same number of in habitants could have been driven to such a
 condition of abject and ridiculous terror by ! five times the number of cases of scarlet fe- ! yer, diphtheria, or even cholera or smallpox, as were at that time known to have occurred in Jacksonville? It is true that the number
 of cases has very much increased eince then,
 but there have been very few deaths, and l
 have no doubt that if the whole population could have bravely faced the enemy and | tafi0
 would have been kept at bay and soon have
 beaten retreat. We all know what pesti-
 lential city New Orleans was before General
 Butler, exercising supreme power, established
 and enforced such sanitary regulations as al-
 most completely stamped out the yellow fe- 1 yer, so that this disease, once so dreaded, has
 never since obtained foothold in that city.
 Jacksonville needs General Butler.
 l O. P "