The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-10-29

shade he gets constantly this breeze A great fan
waves by day and night from Gulf to Atlantic,
from Atlantic to Gulf without intermission.
On this point of date must profit by his
common sense and observation. 1t is clear that
for one who seeks to escape the rigors of the
Northern winter, any time later than November
is too late to leave, and any time before the first
of May is too early to return. But the mistake
is the idea that it is the rigor of the Northern
winter which is so harmful. The fate of invaids
who have chosen the dates above named in their
Florida experience will sadly bear me out when
l assert tn at the excuses of cold not much
to be escaped as are the damp chls and changes
of the interval months between them and the
warmer summer. 1t would be better for the in
valid to go to Florida in October and stay until
December, and when chill vapors frozen out
of the air, and icicles depend from his Northern
roof, to come back to them, and to fly away when
the thaws set in, whenever that be. That he has
done exactly the wrong thing so far, in this mat
ter is the very simple solution OF the fact that
far he has not found Florida good for him. He
will continue to reap nothing but disappointment
from his repetition of the experiment so long ais
he waits until the chills OF November are in his
system, to go to Florida, and then leaves before
they have had time to get out. November and
March have slain their thousands in our dear
New England and Middle States, but April and
May their ten thousands. The sincere invalid
must admit if he be from one of these States,
that he must escape, if at all, a winter of nine
months.
Three classes Of persons have visited Florida
from the beginnings of her histol y-the health
seeker the fortune seeker and the pleasure seeker
and Florida is to beviewed from the standpoint o
each of these classes, for each will continue to
come. and will increase in numbers The limits
of this paper, however, preclude any mention
from the standpoints OF profit or pleasure to be
found in Florida, or any further discussion from
the standpoint of health; althoughin a continued
discussion of the climate of Florida each of these
may be, or rather must be, legitm atey involved.
The future of Florida does not depend upon her
phosphates, in which there may or may not be
| millions of dollars to be resOWn within her soil.
| 1t does not depend upon her fruits which indus
| trous application of intelligence and care will
make completeness to any or woman who
will persevere in their culture. 1t does not depend
| upon it's vegetables. or it's lumber, or any thing
else already proven, or proving, or to be proven
| a. resource of the country. Without any one OF
these Florida has future as certain and as long
and as increasing as time and that in her climate
The health hunter, the fortune hunter, the
pleasure hunter, aside, there will still remain the
visitor to Florida-the taker of little trips-the
| tourist He will come and go. He will come, two
| for one each succeeding year. He will come just
| for fun. He will put up at hotel while he sam
| pies the air of Florida. Take away from Florida
| her oranges, those golden globes of refreshment
| which are nowhere else the same thing take
| away her ruby Japanese persimmons, whose deli
| cate Jacque-rose- petal skin curls away at your
| touch to show it's delicious crimson custard with
| in; take away her royal Pomona (grape frdit)
those tOpaZ-tinted cisterns of tonic juices; take
| away ersWeet potatoes her-shall we descend the
| scale to it's bitter end?-hOg, her homny, her
Florida beef take all away, and still the tourist
will be there for his little trip Somehow he will
live, for surely as he comes he will find the no.
tel and the hotel man. They there before him.
! They will be the last to leave
But some of them will leave. The law OF
survival will prevail an d thatwth rapid strides.
The itteSt will survive alone. The reign of that
Florida hotelman who has preyed with his Flor
i0a fibrin, his condensed milk, his hog and his
hOminy, his canned vegetables and canned fruits,
upon the helpless tourist, is over. His days are
numbered, and the new dynasty has appeared.
The fat Florida COW, who, fed generously, cut up
under the Florida butchers knife into excellent
rOasts and steaks, under the mikmad' S
gentler hand gives down milk, rich and sweet
and in due measure, so much for much,-she
has appeared, to give the lie to the old liar and
the father of them who says when he puts before
you his cooked f1brin and his condensed milk,
this is all for love or money | can find in Flor
ida,' and you give him your money but not your
love; this and much more testimony is at hand
for the utter discontinue and route of the Flor
ida hOtel-man be he Georgian, Yankee, or Cracker,
who has iOurished like green bay tree while you
have shrunk away to proportions not worth
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