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nice, select Christmas presents, suit
able for all ages, you must csme to
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SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON.

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Officials of the Norfolk & Western
Railroad have purchased a big tract
of land at Basic City, paying s6S, ,OoO
for it. 1t is said that large iron
plants will be erected on it,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-11-19
A Use for Prickly Pear Fruit.

Mr.. G.. r. Orcutt writes that the manu-
facture of syrup from the fruit OF the
Opuntia may at no far distant day be-
come an important industry in Southern
California. Opuntia Ficus-lndica, or
Indian Fig, O. Tuna and O. Tuna-manse
have become naturalized around the old
California missions. They are natives of
Mexico and make rank and rapid growth.
The juice of the fruit, which these plants
produce in great abundance, may be ex-
tracted in a cider press like the juice from
apples, and boiled down to a fruity syrup
indistinguishable from that manufacture
ed from watermelon. Excellent vinegar
may also be made from the juice. In
Mexico these Cacti are extensively Guilt
waited for their fruit-Garden and Forest.
"a word to the wise is sufficient"
While we do not predict the manufacture
of this syrup becoming an important in
dustry in South Florida we do think the
fruits of these Cacti could be utilized to
add many a toothsome delicacy to our
tables, which would we'll repay for the
room occupied by the plants. AS is well
known they will thrive on the poorest
soil imaginable, where nothing else could
be raised with profit. o. Ficus-Indica is
to be met within many Floridayards it's
enormous fiat joints growing one upon
another until the plant attains huge pro-
portions. O. Tuna is a native of our
Gulf coast and is a most prolific fruiter.
We have seen very large and fine speci-
mems growing in the pure beach sand at
ST. Petersburg and covered with hundreds
OF pears. We can attest to the delicious
quality of sauce made of the fruit of this
species, and it is also utilized for making
Jelly and preserves. The plants require
no cultivation whatever and in addition
to their utility they are grotesquely or
namental, and when covered with blooms
simply gorgeous.-ED FLORAL DEPART
MENT.]
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them? Evidently, horticultural and
fruit growers societies in all parts of the
country will be expected to make prepar-
ations to supply the products of all kinds
of gardening skill, and, besides, botanical
chronological and microscopical societies
must be invited to supply from their col
lections. We shall naturally look to the
Agricultural Department at Washington
to supply in large quantities both insect
and herbarium specimens. To arrange
the details Of the horticultural exhibits,
as here roughly indicated, will require the
best talent educated in this special line,
and probably some persons connected
with the Agricultural Department and
the Smithsonian Institute will be partic-
ulally available for advice and active
work in this connection.-Vick's Maya
zine.
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The Columbian Exposition.

The Columbian Exposition, or Worlds
Fair, to be held N Chicago, in 1898,
should represent the condition of horti-
culture in this county in general and in
detail, and the allied sciences OF botany
and entomology should present a COM
plete set of specimens of at least all
species OF native plants and insects which
have any horticultural interest. 1t is
time to inquire how such collections can
be formed and how exhibited. These
problems are somewhat complicated by
the facts that many OF the specimens,
especially, fruits and flowers, are of q
perishable nature, and that they are in
perfect or presentable condition at differ
ent times according to their seasons of
maturity and the production of the
country where raised.
This division should embrace a very
complete herbarium of American plants,
in which shall be gathered specimens OF
wood sections of all the trees of the con-
tinent and the islands of the western
world; dried specimens of all the plants
as far as practicable, and especially all
grasses, and forage, food and economic
plants. Scientific societies, and govern
ments should be solicited to make this
department as complete as possible.
Horticulturists and botanists should
work hand in hand to make compre-
hensive exhibit. The allied science of
entomology must beexpected in this con-
nection to make q display of at least the
useful and the injurious insects. The dis
play OF fruits and cut flowers will prob
ably be held at various set times to &C
commodate the season and the various
localities. Through what agencies are
all these contributions to be made, and
what means will be necessary to secure
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-11-19
Morning Glories.

Although the Morning Glory (convol-
vulus maior) is very common and much
neglected plant, it is very snowy when
covered with blossoms. The blossoms
are most brilliant in the morning, and
run through many shades of blue, Grim
son, white, purple, etc. The vines are of
easy culture and very suitable for cover
ing arbors, windows, stumps, old fences,
etc. They are perfectly hardy, will grow
in almost any soil, and if support be
given the vines, they will soon cover any
unsightly place without care.-The May
Flower.
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FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS EREE.

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Inc naDlUdC Oh Nympu6d GHlpltt, DIS
well as [ can Judge. is more restricted.
Certainly have only met with it on or
near the table-land of northern Mexico
in springs here and there or in the limpid
streams flowing from them. The strik-
ing popularity of this species, among
those which are native to America, is in
Dictated by it's specific name, it's leaves be-
ing a foot or in breadth. These are
purple beneath, with prominent veins.
The Mexican name of such lily-pads is
lampazos, and they have given name to
a town on the line OF the Mexican N rational
in Nuevo Leon, whose raisOn d'etre upon
desert mesas is vast spring occupied by
this species, and probably to Texan
town also. The flower of this species is
scarcely larger than that of the preced-
ing, it's petals being white; the rhizome is
somewhat thicker and larger.
Nymph@a gracilis I only know in the
region drained by the Lerma, yet this is
a wide region. extending from Aguas Cal
ientes and San Luis Potosi on the north
to near the City of Mexico on the east
and south and to beyond Guadalajara
on the west. 1t is the fertile and pop
ulous heart OF Mexico, the region OF fire.
quent large cities and of green garden
lands.
AZ the train of the National Railroad
nears the mountain rim of the green
valley of Mexico you see this Water Lily
whitening the surface of the fountain
lake of the Lerma, new born from the
SHOWS of the Volcano of TOluca, and it is
to be found in lakes, natural and arti-
fetal, and sluggish streams tributary to
this great riverfar and near. Sometimes
it yields place in these waters to n. MeXi
cana; but it seems to be the more COM
mon species here. The tall and slender
flower stalk risinga foot above the water,
and the rather narrow and acute petals,
give this plant the slender appearance
indicated by it's specific name. OF the
several species under consideration, this
one alone, as [ believe, possesses any
marked fragrance. It's root stock is a
tuber rather than a rhizome-or such, at
least, it appears in autumn, after all the
rest of the plant has perished-an Ovoid
body one to three inches in length, with
thick and hard outer shell, covered with
bosses quite like a pine cone in appear
ance. In this state the plant is prepared
to hibernate and endure safely the
droughts of the earlier months of the
year, when many of the shallow lakes
which it inhabits are dried up, and the
land, where they lie tumbling about on
the surface, is even growing a crop OF
wheat.
This strange habit of the plant would
seem to favor the success of it's cultiva-
tion, for it's season OF growth is but a
few months, and when they are matured
the tubers can be stored dry as we'll as
potatoes.
Thus, as we see, two white Water Lilies,
yellow one and blue one gladden. the
eyes of the botanical traveller in these in
teresting regions.-C. G. Pringle in Gar
den and Forest.
Morning Glories.
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Notes on the Mexican Water Lilies

clILleS, mas SOWn IN mexican waters u
larger and more pleasing variety of the
flower dedicated to the water nymphs of
ancient mythology than is found in our
northern lakes. The species, as far as
known to me are four; Nymph@a Next
cana, Zucc, with yellow flowers, N. elegans,
Hook, blue lowered, and N. ampla, c.,
and N. gracilis, Zucc., with white flowers.
The range of distribution of all of these,
with one exception, extends within the
present limits Of the United States-N.
ampla, N. elegans and N. Mexicana being
known to occur in Southern Texas, and
the latter, if as is strongly suspected, this
species is Identical with N. fava, in Floria
also.
N. Mexicana [ have traced from the
lagoons of the lower Rio Grande south
ward to the lakes of the valley of Mexico,
and westward to the slow streams of the
great valley of the Lerma, in the state Of
JaliscO. Its leaves are six Or seven inches
broad on their upper surface, which is
dark green and shining, sparingly
splashed with purple, exactly in the way
OF the Florida plant; it's flowers, two or
three inches broad, are borne on erect
stems eight to twelve inches above the
leaves lying on the surface of the water,
or rising out of the water when crowded;
their sepals and petals are acutish, the
former being purple without, but inward
blending with yellow. It's rhizome is
scarcely more than an inch in thickness
and only few inches in length. A strik-
ing popularity of this species is it's multi
plication by means of runners, just in the
way of the strawberry. Young plants
are thus freely sent out from the rhizOmes
of plants formed in this way the previous
year, and from the young plants them
selves very often, being borne on white
spongy cords half an inch thick and one
or two feet long. These young plants
usually flower after few weeks, while yet
ATTACHED to the parertplants. Thus the
Towering of thespecies is prolonged from
June till October.
IcCtStbuC ctI0 mO1uOA1OO VI AOlOO vi CAAO
plant, deep green enlivened by abundant
yellow blooms, seen by me in valleys lying
under serene golden skies and trimmed by
blue sierras.
N. elegans take to be a deniza of the
warm low lands only, ranging from the
Waco River, in Texas, southwark
through the Mexican Gulf state of Tam
anlipas to that of Vera Cruz, at least,
perhaps much farther. In the shallower
lagoons of the lower Rio Grande-former
channels OF the river, now tortuous lakes,
isolated throughout most Of the year
from the rivers fOw-it is so abundant
as to cover large expanses of water.
In the size of it's leaves and in the size
and shapes of it's flowers this species is
similar to the preceding, but the flower
stem is perhaps taller and more slender.
The outside of the sepals is green,
marked with fine broken lines OF purple;
the petals are of various shades of blue,
while the centre OF the flower, the stamens
and stigma, is pale yellow. Its rhizome
is as small as that of n Mexicana, and it
is propagated only, think, by means of
seed unlike those of the species just men,
toned, these are very numerous and very
small
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Pamphlets Received.

We have received the following PAM
phlets from the Secretary Of Agriculture,
Hon. J. M. Rusk:
Experimental Station Record, Volume
1, No. five and six, and Volume 2, No. /.
List OF Botanists of the Agricultural EX-
detrimental Stations of the United States
with an outline of thework in botany at
the several stations. Proceedings Of the
Third Annual Convention of the Associa-
ton of American Agricultural Colleges
and Exp erimental Stations.
Farmers Bulletin No. 2.-Work of the
Experimental Station.
Report Oh the Condition of growing
crops. Any of these publications may
be obtained without cost by addressing
the secretary OF Agriculture at Washing
ton.
We have also received Bulletin No. Is
of the Cornell University Experimental
Station of Ithaca, N. Y, on experiments
in spraying plants. A very interesting
bulletin.
Florida, the Italy of America. A neat
pamphlet giving the Educational Status
of the State, compiled by F. L. Kern, OF
Lake City, and issued under the auspices
of the State Teachers Association.
Bulitins No. 60 and 70 of the New
Jersy Experimental Station, NJ. q. Gates
Director, New Brunswick, n. j., on An
alysis and Valuations of Complete Ferti;-
zers, and Fungous Diseases OF the
Spinach.
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Florida Should Make Her Own Fer
tiliZers.

That excellent journal, the Tampa
Tribune, evidently comedies with the
AGRICULTURIsT in reference to the manu-
facture of fertilizers within the limits of
the State, as the following editorial az
pears in ore of it's last issues
The State OF Florida is emphatically an
agricultural State, and as such uses an
immense amount of fertilizers. Thous-
ands of tons are shipped into our State
annually. Thousands of dollars are paid
for this commodity, and every cent OF it
goes out of the State. Why should this
be the case any longer? Italmost would
seem like shipping coal to Newcastle to
ship fertilizer into Florida. Yet such is
the case. Blessed with the finest phos-
phate beds in the world, in inexhaustible
profusion, with every facility for manu-
featuring fertilizers, our people seem to
have gone to sleep and are going to let
fall from their laps the wonderful fortune
that nature has so lavishly poured into
them. Every ton of fertilizer used in the
State should be made right here and not
a dollar should go out OF the limits of the
State for it.
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hardy The tree is small, sagelike
shrub, and the fruit about the size of a
goose-egg. Capt. r. G. May, of Rock
ledge, one of the heaviest and most sue
cessful vegetable growers in this section,
introduced it here, and has a nursery of
plants which he disposes OF reasonably.
He says he thinks the pepino will grow in
any portion of our State"
The Pepino was planted to consider
able extent several years ago. But they
failed to fruit, though blossoming heavi-
ly and was killed by light frosts, only a
few plants fruited.
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New Advertisements.

H. G. Hastings& Co., the Florida seeds
men have an advertisement elsewhere in
this issue in which they offer a fine collec-
ton of seed for fall planting for SO cents.
We would call the attention of prospec-
tors and others desiring to locate in Flor
ida, to the advertisement of Interlachen,
which appears elsewhere in this issue.
Those who read the Halfsl Wonderful
Treatment advertisement need not hest
tate to purchase the book if they have
any need of it. After trying the treat
ment in our family for over three months
we can truly say it works wonders. 1t is
especially valuable to those troubled with
sick headaches and Indigestion.
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Real Estate Directory.

Any one contemap iGting the purchase OF real es-
ate IN FLORIDA should 9Orite to the parties 6elow
in qohGtever section they q0iSh to locate 1t IS the
effort of the AgricatItuTist to haze none but FIRST
class firms represented in this column.
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CABBAGE SEED-Long Island grown; this
~ years crop; Drumhead, Flat Dutch, Jersey
Wakefield, Hendersons EARLY, Summer, and
loves Peerless at 25c. per pound. Guarantee
they will give satisfaction. ID. H. LOWE SEED
CO., Macon, Ga. 35-43
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Nor THE FINEST STOCK of orange trees in
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DIOR SALE-Ten thousand sweet seedlings in
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SUGAR-LOAF PINEAPPLES THE BEST
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ORANGE AND LEMON TREES-A large stock
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DOROUs PIPE SUBIRRTGATION WATERS
l. the trees and not the weeds, and does not
leach your fertilizers. Correspondence solicited.
NJ. c. MOHR. st. Petersburg, Fla.
NOR SUMMER PLANTING-A large assert
II ment of one and two year buds of the citrns
family, on heavy stocks, offered by E. II. TYSON,
proprietor of the Lakeland Nurseries, Lakeland,
Fla. Correspondence solicited.
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Il to Craze without browsing the trees. Price
81 25 each, $12 per dozen. Cash to accompany
orders. Weguarantee these muZzes to give salts
faction. Money refunded otherwise. We refer to
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sion. MOREMAN & Co., Switzerland, Fla.
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GAVE MONEY! BUY FROM US! WE SELL
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books. periodicals, and in fact everything. E. A.
ROLIIMAN & CO., st. Louis, Mo. 35-37
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NOR SUMMER PLANTING-A large assert
II ment of one and two year buds of the citrus
family, on heavy stocks, offered by E. II. TYSON,
proprietor of the Lakeland Nurseries, Lakeland,
Fla Correspondence solicited.
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CHEAP COLUMN.

RATES-Twenty words, name and address one
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DATENT GRAZING MUZZLE. Permits stock
i to Craze without browsing the trees Price
81 % each, $12 per dozen. Cash to accompany
orders We guarantee these muzzes to give salts
faction. Money refunded otherwise. We refer to
S. B. Hubbard & Co., Jacksonville, by permits
sion. MOREMAN & Co., Switzerland, Fla
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DOROUS PIPE SUBIRRIGATION WATERS
Il the trees and not the weeds, and does not
leach your fertilizers. Correspondence solicited.
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M Write and ask me what to do. guarantee
to cure salt sick and loss of appetite. w. q.
TILGHMAN, Palatka Fla