The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-15

his egOtlSm, as he had paid Tor 1T, having
lost in one season $16, 900 clean cash in
learning how. He said the orange grow
ers should not want to make every cent
there is in the business, but give the buy
er and seller chance; he was in favor of
encouraging the purchasers to buy the
fruit on the trees, but there will be no
benefit derived from the proposed plans
unless there was concert of action
among the growers If they would all
Join the Fruit Exchange they would ac-
complish the desired end, or if they would
allcombine in the trust, but he Was willing
to wager that not one-tenth of the orange
growers, after endorsing the Exchange.
would ship their fruit to it. That little
by-word eff was always ysinsurmOuntable.
But while waiting for the desired changes
to come about he advised them to pick
out few good men and shipt to them. He
advised the growers not to scatter their
fruit by shipping to Smith, Jones and
Brown, but concentrate their Shipments
Mr. Phelps said that he had the great
est faith in Florida, and her possibilities
He had attended the meetings of the
American Pathological Association as far
back as 1866 in the Northern States, but
never saw SO much intelligence and heard
such valuable papers read as at the meet
ing in Ocala.
On motion the meeting then adjourned
,,u+;l EN,iJox 1oo01.r1iYcr OF q n m
FRIDAY, g. AN.
Meeting called to order by the Pres-
dent
The report of the Committee on Tropi-
cal fruits was called for and responded to
by r. D. Hoyt, as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen
only learned when received the programme
OF this meeting that was of the Committee
on Tropical Fruits. and not knowing what was
pected of me have consequently done very little.
If might offer a suggestion to the working of
our committees Would it not be well for each
to have head, whose duty it should be to assign
to the other members some particular part in the
work-whch could easily be done through the
mais-then if each did his duty it would all come
together as whole in the report.
do not think the subject of tropical fruit grow
ing in the southern counties has received any thing
like the attention it deserves. On recent trip
through the cultivated portion of the southwest
coast and adjacent islands, surprised to
find how little knowledge the inhabitants had of
the fruits they were growing the limited number
OF species grown and the utter disregard of any
thing toward Improvement in what they were
growing
sCocoanuts are planted by the tens of thousands,
and it is safe to say that ninety per cent of them
small inferior nuts that wholly unfit for
I'd, and the ultimate product can hardly be
pected to be of superior quality In pineapples
it is just the same; year after year the old Red
Spanish variety is planted when Queen or Porto
Rico, some other superior sort, occupying the
same space and with the same attention would
sell for at least ten times much in any market
in which it offered 1 speak now more par
ticuarly of the western coast. am aware that
more of an effort at Improvement has been made
along the Indian River, but there seems to be
vast field open to the intelligent and persevering
cultvator in the Introduction of economic fruit
plants of the tropics, and especially such as are
proftably grown in regions where light frosts
may be expected. True they will not all grow
here, but there is room for experiment, and it is
only by experimenting that can sift out those
that are eventually to make our State one of the
most productive in the Unon if it is not already
SO. glance backward for twenty years will
show what has been accomplished in that time,