The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-04-19
81 per Annulll, in advance

dens blooming roses, emerald green lawns, hap
py and prosperous homes.
The effort which resulted in failure was as
great as that which achieved success, but from
want of proper direction availed nothing. Just
think of what paradise our State would have
been today if all the money and energy and bis
tered hands and aching backs had been directed
by the best knowledge within the brains of Flor
idas horticulturists. If our legislature could
ha We collected this and placed it in the reach of
all at cost OF few hundred dollars. it would
have added millions to the present money value
of the State and thousands who have abandoned
unsuccessful ventures in despair would now be
happy, proud and opulent citizens.
The society has tried hard to have the legisla
ture publish and distribute it's transactions free
to our people. This is done in a great many of
the States, and has always resulted as most
profitable impetus to horticulture.
In State like ours where horticulture is of
such magnitude it should mostcertainly be done.
The transactions for last year were published
by ourselves, but with our limited resources can
not be sent out free except to members, and only
our limited numbers directly benefited by
this valuable volume.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been
the climate or SOIL or both render success impos-
sible
Oranges have been planted and failed where
Strawberries or pears would have been success
Land has been planted in tomatoes and frost
has wrought destruction where cabbage would
have been unfailing crop. Land has been
planted in cabbage that would have made dol
lars in tomatoes as often as a dime was made
in cabbage.
A man in the fat woods takes instruction
from a successful neighbor on the sand hills and
fails. man on the sand hills tries to pattern
after q successful neighbor in the fat woods and
he fails. One orange grower holds his crop to ship
in May and gets rich; another holds his and
gets frozen.
One man sends his fruit to q commission man
and is happy; another to the same house and is
sad. One man spends so cents in putting up a
box OF oranges and when the returns come in he
smiles another man Iuts up a box for go cents
and when the returns come he frowns. One man
is famous for always getting big prices and his
neghb bors call MIN lucky; another man always
sends to the wrong place or the wrong house and
is an unlucky devil.
One lot of oranges sold at auction in lack
sonvie for So cents box. At the same sale,
the same day, another lot, of no better quality
sold for $1.7O. The fist was in rough weather.
beaten, ill-made boxes, fruit unszed ungJaded.
unwrapped and slack. ThesecOnd was mOdelin
all ways The first man saved 20 cents in putting
his up and lost 81 50 in The price. The second
man put in % cents extra work on his box and
got 81 80 on the sale The last a "lucky
cuss.''
Two men had some dead branches in their trees
and red spiders on the leaves. One spent so cents
per tree in carefully cutting out all dead branch
es, schelacing the wounds and spraying for
red spiders. The other spent his so cents for fer
tilizer and put it on. Which was wise?
Two men had groves a blackjack ridge.
One plowed and hoed his trees and it cost him
ST 80 per acre. The other spends his $3.50 for
500 pounds of fertilizer. Which was wise? One
gets the best box heads and sides i'll the market
He makes eie hit boxes an hour and packs three
boxes an hour. When packed his box of foranges
costs 80 cents and sells for $4
Another buys the cheapest bCx stuff in reach
He makes twenty boxes per hCu and packs ten
boxes When packed he has done it for 20 cents
and it sells for $3.