The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-05-14
ORM0ND BY THE SEA.
FIFTH NEETTNG OF THE STATE HORTT.
CULTURAL SOCIETY.
ACTUAL OBSERVATIONS FROM THE NEW
SOUTH LAND AS SEEN BY THE FLoRIDIAN's
HORTICULTURAL NAN.


recently returned from that section
and are full to Overlooking with
items CLEANED from personal observa-
ton. They are so numerous that
several issues will have to be used to
tell the readers what We saw on this
4 and the other side of Ormond by the
!. sea.
That the Florida Central and
Peninsular is great railroad there
is no question. All of the FLoRIDIAN's
home readers will know it, but much
that we write of it is intended for
the far away subscribers, who, we
expect in due course of time, will
come to this beautiful southland. It
is getting SO now that whole families
come.
Well, take it for granted that you
live at or beyond Chicago, Kansas
City, Louisville, Nashville, st. Louis
or Indianapolis, HE away to either of
these points next winter and there
you can get through connections to
all points on this immense line with
the best of sleeping car accommoda.
tioDA
In one sense Of the word it is an
Immense octopus, and its tentacles
reach out far and near, starting for in
stance from Tallahassee, a short run
takes the passenger through the
great pear groves, cotton and to-
bacco fields of Leon county to
Monticello. There connection is
made with another road that goes
north. On you GO through the
stock, fruit and cotton farms and
across the old Suwannee river, with
its world wide reputation in song, to
Lake City. There again another
railroad connection can be made for
the north.
Soon the whistle screams for Bald
win and here the road strikes its
own connections, both north and
south. On the left they back out to
Fernandina, the great timber and
phosphate mart, with the broad
ocean in full view. To the right
you can go to the orange groves OF
Lawtey, Citrus, Ocala and Homasassa.
See the matted rows of strawberries,
lust now, for miles. Here and there
beautiful lakes present themselves
to view, phosphate beds are numerous
and everybody is busy. AT Ocala
their road takes you to Plant City
and Tampa, or if one desires to see
! Gainesville, Orlando or Kissimmee.
and the great sugar country, rail-
road awaits the traveller. Ii Cedar
KEYS and her lucjous bivalves entice
You, connections are ready. II TRIP
10 Havana, via Key West, this ii
the route, for they make close
connection with the fast steamers
and they even make close connection
with the tarpon fisheries of the cas-
coast. There is no trouble to traVe
In Florida and almost all over 1t i
one at first makes connections tina
this road offers and affords. Column
could be written of what we say
and heard during the brief trip W
made from this point to the jump
ing off place-Ormond. In futur
issues we shall have more to sa.
from an agricultural and horti
cultural point of view.
When a railroad or other corpora
Ion recognizes the business we ar
k0Fing hard to promote, it plainl.
5~s that they appreciate the inn
portance of preserving the mutualit
Hf interests between them and tn
mers.
Il gives us pleasure to know tina
fhe r. G. & p. has done this thin
18th the tobacco interests in thi
oortion of the state for several year,
Col Maxwell secured the abb
rxices of Henry j. Fenton as Il
coo agent for his line and he hs
ons nobly, and we feel it our dut
aNsrd him much praise. IT
'onel has recognized the Tobacco