The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-03-02
FLORIDA IN A NUTSHELL.
The Finest Display Of Fruits Ever Exhibited
fIorida's sub-Tropicai Exhibition.

The Finest Display Of Fruits Ever Exhibited
fIorida's sub-Tropcai Exhibition.
Philadelphia Times.
JACKSONVILLE, February 16.-The
tourist travel to Florida is increasing
daily. while the Sub-Tropical EXPOSE
ton is steadily growing in popularity
every week. New attractions present
themselves every hour. This wonderful
exposition of FIori da productions has
been big card in drawing the tourist
as well as the pleasure seeker this way.
Even the large class of invalids who
come yearly seem to derive much pleas
ure and rest in inspecting the fruits and
flowers OK this favored region The at
tendance has averaged 900 daily during
the past week.
There has never been on exhibition III
this country such complete and extern
sive variety of the Citrus family and it is
worth trip of many thousand miles to
see the luscious fruits spread out in all
their native sweetness. People come,
inspect and wonder. No language can
adequately describe this great tshow of
fruits Volusia Couety, the banner
county of the State, has over forty diff
erent varieties of the citrus fruit and
each variety has its own peculiar
there is difference in each family of
the orange and lemon, but there is, and
| if one is in doubt about the matter come
to Florida, taste each variety and be
thoroughly convinced. Fortunately
there is no way to tinker, adulterate and
mislead with the citrus family, as in the
case with our breadstuffs. Each orange
and lemon stands upon its own individ-
ual merit. Below | give the different
variety of the orange and lemon, as ex-
hlbited at the Sub-Tropical:
ORANGEs-Dummit, st Michaels,
Halifax River, Navel, (Pacsons), Navel
0Nashingtonl Tangierine, (Daveys),
Mandarin, King, Tardiff, (Hart'sl. Ar
cadia, Malorca, Enterprise seedless,
| Maltese Blood, Homosassa, Joffa, Sneed
Seville, Queen of the Halifax, Botelka,
| Novel lAtwood's seedlessl, Prota (silver)
Nutmeg, Vanilla, Russelrs (pyriform),
Maltese (oval), Mediterranean (sweet).
LEMoNs-Kid Glove, Sicily, Villa
Franco, Halifax. Long nose, Eureka,
! Genoa, Rossiter, Russell, Shaddock,
| Pear Shaddock, Ponelc grape fruit,
Kumquot {ovaD
A very pleasing and satisfactory ex-
| hibit to all strangers is the display of
! the native woods of the State. Among
| the species exhibited are seven different
| kinds of pine (including the staple pro-
ducts of the State), yellow pine, in sew
| eral varieties; also specimens of spruce
| and white pine, which are found in sew
eral portions of the State. Other speci-
mems exhibited are:
White and black cypress, red, white
| and sinking cedar, Australian pine. cot
/ tonwood, black willow, birch, hornbeam
| ironwood. beech, chestnut, chinquepin,
/ ,tar L. Dob Mo
oak, swamp red oak, black oak, scarlet
oak, live oak, swamp chestnut oak,
overcup oak, upland chestnut oak, post
oak, tough oak, white oak, brash white
oak, swamp hickory, bitter-nut hickory,
pig-nut hickory, red hickory, black wal
nut, sycamore, mulberry, wild fig, rub
Der tree, blackberry, water elm, red elm,
Florida swamp elm, slippery elm, crab
wood, Guiana plum, Lakewood, sassa-
fras, swamp red bay, China berry, torch
wood, mahogany, purge nut, hog plum
holly, narrow-leaf yaupon, broad yau-
pom, swamp gallberry, possum haw, It'll
leather wood, pigeon plum, black man
grove, catalpa or catwaba, gel
ger tree, wild alive devil wood
green or swamp snowdrop tree, white
snowdrop tree, sweet leaf, Florida laurel
persimmon, box wood, titi-buckwheai
tree, red or swamp maple, white or sill
yer maple. wild sapadillo (dilly1, ants
| wood downward plum), iron wood
knock orange), mastic, sou~wood, sparkle
berry, nakedwood, gu bark FLORIDA qui
nine), princewood, swamp haw, tnpel6
cotton gum, tupelo gum, dogwood
| white and red stopper, false buttonwood
| buttonwood, mangrove, currants tree
hogs haw, yellow haw, tree thorn OF
haw, cockspur thorn, crabapple, MOCK
live, wild cherry, hog plum, poison
wood, wild plum (sioe), cocoa plum
wild tamarind, red bud, water locust
Jamaica dogwood, box elder, white
wood and beefwood.
There can be no better opportnnit,
presented to study the soils, the produc
tons, the advantage of Florida life anC
the cheapness of living among orange
groves than will be found at the Sub
Tropical Exposition. Everything per
tainIng to Florida is condensed in intel
ligent form and shape. Those who de
sire to know more of Florida than it i
possible to learn from hearsay and b,
pamphlets, circulars and guide books
should not let this opportunity of seein
, Florida under one roof pass by. Thi
exposition is worth all the guide books
circulars and write-ups ever issued sine
Florida was a State. Here are living eS
emplifications of results obtained. Her
, is tangible evidence of what Florida il
of what Florida can do and what Fol
ida will yet accomplish. Make no mis-
take, there is great and grand futur
, | for the Land of Flowers in industris
methods, steady progress and in the ur
surpassed climate which challenges til
wonder and admiration of the two hen
/ | ispheres. HINTON A. HELPER