Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-18
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ESlueberries, Dswberries and Other
sass.
Orlando, Fla. Sept. 10th, 1SSS-To
the Press and Dakotaian: The recent
pineapple letter was reprinted here in
the Reporter, and strange to say, nobody
has questioned its statements. 1t was
read by one of your subscribers OF Mana
tee, 100 miles southwest OF here, who at
ono wrote me about getting him some
choice plants from the Orlando pine
ries,'' for his own garden. This gentle
man is our old friend, Marshal j. II.
Burdick. Part of his letter is Of general
interest, as follows: ave are in the best
of health. Mrs. Rurdick has not had
such good health in twenty years before
coming to Florida as she has had since
coming. Being only four miles from
Manatee, We have had no reason to fear
yellow fever. There has been but one
death IN Manatee, and over thirty cases.
There is absolutely no sickness there
now but two oonvalescent cases OF the
fever" This shows how mild the dis.
ease is in ome places, and how little
the country people are alarmed by it. l
received his letter we'll perforated by
the mail agent, who fumigates all mail
matter inside and outside with sulphur
gas.
Orlando, and every part of Orange
county still remain in excellent health.
There has been no fever here of any
kind. In this city OF over 5000 people
the undertaken publishes his sworn
statement, giving the name, g and
disease of every person that has died
here in June. July and August, There
we're fourteen in all; two were still births,
six more we're infants and six were
adults. The twelve eli died of different
causes and not one died of fever. No
malarious attacks have appeared at my
house. and fever CAGES have been far
more scarce in Orlando, l verify believe,
than they have in Yankton.
When yellow fever broke out in
Jacksonville the doctors, editors and
reporters for the associated press spread
the report that it was brought there from
Orlando. That has been fully disproved,
for this place never yet had a case of it,
The first case came from Tampa. But
this did not prevent the SANDER from
being everywhere believed to our dis
credit end to u great injury. But now
Jacksonville is in the most helpless and
stricken plight, and cries loudly to the
country for nurses, doctors, food and
money and Orlando is raising hundreds
of dollars to relieve suffering and save
life.
The wintey tourist who sees only
oranges in market, little knows what
fruits the summer can show. Pine.
apples are growing scarce, and melons
are about gone after four months OF them.
Wild blackberries, dewberyles, blue
berries &C., were abundant in some
places, in early summer and even in MAY
Bat the standard summer fruit fol
sauce is the gusva. Nobody likes then
ct first sight or rathe. at first smell. 4
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northern nose turn up with decided re-
%pugnance. But by tasting them, raw
and cooked, this feeling changes in a
short time to a positive fondness. Our
house is surrounded by clusters OF guava
bushes, spzouted up from roots of treet
killed by the great freeze Of January
1886. They grow every day II the year
and bear fruit most OF the time. Som.
are twelve feet high and bear freely. W.
get a steady supply OF a peck or NOR,
daily, and the Ruaya butter and jelly
they yield is exquisite; while sliced with
sugar for the table or eaten under tn
tree, they are q valuable addition to ouI
, resources.
:. The tree is ever green with long slen
, der limbs and foliage. The young frui
is small and hard, i~nterspersed with
fresh white blossoms. They do moi
: seem to grow any for many weeks; blu
here and there one suddenly swells (.
the size and shape of a large greer
lemon. then it turns yellow In a day o
two and unless gathered it drops off fol
, the hens to devoar. When gathered i
: will keep less than a week. Hence yot
will never see guavas till you come wher,
= they live. The interior is full of phil
and rather coarse seeds, with enough o
acid and sweetness and attractive havo
, to make them universally esteemed b,
: oil avoap5 yoU rapidopf
i A different sort, called the Catle,
guavs, grows on a dwarfed and shrubb.
tree imported from China end the frul
IS for more delioions to eat, though
quite small. They bear an immens
= crop that wholly covers the twigs, AM
produce two or three acres a year. Thu
trees are wholly hardy and safe iron
4 frost, and the leaves are thick and evei
: green. some like those OF the hoya car
nosa or Wal plant.
- Lemons and lines are very sbundan
n and fruitful. Among the nursery row
OF young orange and lemon trees tina
half surround this house, are many tai
slender lemon trees, OF an inch Or tw
. diameter, 30 heavily laden with cluste.
of fine lemons that they bend in til
form Of a loop or horseshoe, with tn
fruit touching the ground. In on
y orange grove at Winter Park these ar
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