Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-05-28

aEs of fsaese fhfIrty 5Svsfggsen
trees growing in bashy olumpe, Six to
ten feet high, Uioorning and forming
green frnit ct a great rate. They will
ripen gradually and last ell summer.
The usual experience of 6 northerner
with the guava ia ae follows: frat, in
tense disgust az the scent and favor
then positive dislike OF the taste and
smell; next. mild Fepugnanee 10 them
When cooked into a and pies; shan
she discovery that they are very good
when cooked; finally, intense sondness
Tor them in every form, either. to taste or
smell, Most of my family already like
them. and We think 90 or % bushels will
not be q bad shing so have on hand.
They ase also famous for yielding tie
best jelly vi all known fruit.
Among the fruit trees beside the house
is a patch of pineapple plants. Though
long neglected. they aEe bearing nineteen
fair sized fruits, some of them being we'll
advanced toward ripening, In some
gardens here are en exquisite lGxnTy
called Snrinam cherries very beautifu.
and very ornamental. Fig trees of
various kinds are forming fruit rapidly
The old idea that the fg is a fruit that
never has q flower, is disproved by
modern science. All the Towering APP
pnratus necessary to fersiliza the seed
and perfect the fig, is contained within
the skin OF the green hali-grown fruit.
Ihs genuine Jamaica ginger is grown
by O few here With perfect SUCCESS.
Some ladies preserve their own fresh
ginger root in syrup, a better condiment
than the costly article imported in lars
by your leading Rrocers. The finest pre-.
serves { ever tasted was made here of
melon-rind, ginger-roota and syrup. The
wild African ginger is quite common as
Q towering plant, called the "shell-lily."
by the common people. The long tas-
sells of white and flame oolored flowers
all through a mass OF heritage eight feet
high and broad, set off a front garden
finely.
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A great many are raising Cuban tobao-
co as an experiment., and great profits
are expected. Our ambitious people
aim at those things winch will yield the
biggest returns. While the hallway
southern states must be content to raise
cheap grades of cotton and tobacco,
south Florida will produce the best sea-
island cotton and Havana tobacco, worth
three times the price of the former. She
also throws her thousands OF carloads OF
new potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes,
s"cukes," lettuce, radishes, melons
and Strawberries into the New
York market far in Advance of all Others,
and secures the most %extravagant prices.
She begins to furnish grapes and peaches
on the same thrifty basis. Her early
oranges. ripe and sweet, are sold in Eng.
land at fine prices in October, Novem-
Der n December; when those OF Che
Meditterrean countries are sour and late.
To-day l saw the finest celery field / ever
saw, three blocks from the court house;
there will be big money found IN these
muck-felds of early celery. These
things are all accomplished facts, and
furnish su~bslstencesto thousands.
At Kissimmee, 40 miles south, are over
700 acres Of sugar cane, near the new ST..
Oloud sugar mill, the first to be esta-
blished In the state. This mill has late
~ worked mp some 200 acres OF new
.canefelds, with fine success. Our desl-
ers now retail St. CLOUD sugar at seven
cents, and We use il to make our table
syrup. The recent success of this costly
experiment means a great deal to Florida.
The drainage of about 100 100 acres Of
rich deep muck land by lowering the
lakes sever feet, by Dlsston's canol,
furnishes q body OF sugsr-land better
than Louisiana can show for these rea-
Sons, climate enables us to raise GER
tain tropical varieties of zane that the
severer winters over there would des-
troy ; these choicer sorts yield much
percentage of sugar to the ton OF
cane; and while the Louisiana crop is
often frozen up and destroyed by the
'snorther," or zephyr from Manitoba, |
The Florida sugar men will haYe all win
ter safe from frost, to harvest and grind |
their zane. Hence we hope to do with !
out glucose made from Dakota corn and
sent here in sugar casks from New York. |
Great things are also expected of the
OF fiber for cordage,&c., from
the Spanish maguey plant. 1t thrives
in the poorestesoil, even on the sand
beaches OF the keys. II is q large Seen
fury plant" or agave, like the so-called
Sisal hemp. I have both sorts growing
here. The other day I took q four foou
maguey leaf and pounded out q surpris-
ing amount OF fiber, like MANILA heap. |
Il is o slow process BY hand; but aasaan
this country has produced q machine
which 1t is claimed will revolutionize the
fiber industry, as Whitney's cotton-gin
did the whole business Of raising and
spinning cotton.
Some OF the above facts are for those
poorly informed people who say that
nothing can be raised here but oranges. !
Mr.. R. W. Hussey continues very &C.
tive and successful here. Mr. John !
Thornton is well and finds paying en-
ployment most OF the time. The health
OF my family continues excellent,
/ have recently allied myself with the