The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-05-14

berries, that it costs three times as much
to get his berries to market as it does
from Louisiana, Mississippi or Texas.
spent a win er in Texas studying up the
routes of transportation and found that
they were reducing the freightfaster thue
in any other new country was ever in.
When | came here, | shipped two car
loads OF goods from Sioux City, Iowa, to
Sanford at 500. 80 per car, but could
not send those same cars back, laden
with the products OF Florida, for less than
| 1910 for the same weight. Why is it :?
They have got to be returned. With re-
gard to this continuous line of service, |
hope to see the time when it will be. It
does rot exist to-day. You cannot bring
freight from Santa Fe without bringing it
over five different lines of transportation.
Here we are unfortunately fixed to-day
| Though many of the managers are East
ern men they are under the influence of
the Southern ways of doing business.
They have not learned yet that it is to
their interest to foster the interests of
Florida. | had 145 pounds of what is
known as galvanized, plain fence wire
shipped from Jacksonville to Oviedo.
The freight was $3.50. The freight was
ten cents more from Sanford to Oviedo
than from Jacksonville to Sanford I
have got in my mind a remedy. Wewant
an Interstate Commerce Commission to
control the rates OF freight and passen-
ger rates, and have nothing else to do
but to control these rates. When we
bring the railroad companies down so
that they will see that theirinterests and
ours are identical, and that they must
divide with us or go to the walls with us,
then we can have some hope. In order
that we may have some of the benefits of
it at the present time, l think we should
advocate such BILL We should get
everybody interested to create such a
commission.
The following paper prepared by Mr.
Mead, of the Committee OH Ornamentals,
was read by Mr.. Phelps:
." - EXOTIC PALMS in FLORIDA.
Mr., President and Gentlemen of the Florida Hor
ticulturaI Society:
Ourlast great freeze came on Monday, March
18th, just forty-six years ahead of the time fixed
by our weather prophets and it affords valua-
BILE, though most unwecome, opportunity of
testing the hardness of our choice exotics.
My thermometer here, in latitude 2So 4O', regis
tered minimum OF 90; my neighbours go. in
more sheltered place, and other observers in the
temperature being where cloud of smoke from
burning woods had settled during the night.
Young orange trees mostly killed to the
ground-many thousands of them both in grove
and nursery-and old -treeslose ALL or nearly ALL
their leaves. know of single instance where
tree ten inches in diameter is killed to the ground;
but rule, the trunks and branches of old trees
are unin;ured.
Oleanders lose. all their leaves, and, perhaps
the smaller branches good many young peach
trees and rose bushes killed to t he ground,
but the majority escape with moderate injury.
Half hardy shrubs, like Cattey guayas, are often
cut back half way; common guavas, Eugenia IN
flora Cayenne Cherry Pitanga). f. Bambos
| (the Rose Apple and E. Ugni the CHILEAN guava)
| are killed quite to the ground Soap trees (Sa.
pindus Saponaria) lose their leaves only but
well Rose Geraniums, Hibscuses and other
common ornamental plants, will have to start
anew from the level of the ground.