The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-09
BY COL W. AVERY.

BY COL. !. W. AVERY.
[French Translation by L. Charter. Belgian
Consul, aud German bV 4iTlO hHorr. FTom
Baltimore Manufacturers Record
Savannah has become the chief southern
distributing point for the juicy waterm elon
and the succuIent vegetable.
Her comprehensive system of ocean
steamships, radiatng in convenient water
lines to the greatest seaports OF this conti-
nent. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York
aud Boston, carry by cheap water freight
through the preservative salt air the mill
ions of crimson meated melons and tons OF
toothsome truck to the myriads Of northern
epicurean hvers, while her magnificent
schemes of western, southwestern and
northern railway connections scatter the
vast tonnage of the luscious stuff.
Tributary to her are Florida, with Its
floods of early vegetables and golden
oranges; Southwestern Georgia and Ala
bamR, with their wonderful Gem" and
"Rsttlesnakeh melons and cantaleups and
melting pears, and Middle Georgia, with its
sweeping aff1uence CT rosy peaches and
nectared grapes.
Ten years ago this traffic was nothing.
Now nearly 5000 carloads pour their mil
lions Of delicious packages of fruit and veg
etabes in Savanuehs omniferous fruit
hopper through to the greedy world OF hum
CRY buyers and eaters. And the trade
grows with an enlarging sweep and unfal~
tering steadiness.
The record OF shipments gets bigger
yearly, and when southern direct trade
opens foreign markets to these attractive
products and delicacies OF southern soil,
and brings the gardeners and fruit gro
of the old world, with their experience and
methods and industrious thrift, TO make
our waste and surplus fruit and vegetable
Georgia lands, under its beneticent climate,
smile into wide ing harvests of the varied
and ravishiug table glories that are indig-
eDous to us, we can pretty early feed clvlll'
cation. We can ship abroad as well as
north, and delight the old world as well as
the new with the treasures of our orchards
vineyards aud gardens, and swell southern
commerce.
! While Savannah draws her fruit from a
wide territory she divides with Florida the
raising of vegetables and is the center of an
! immediate truck environment unsurpassed
on the continent in fertility and conven-
| fence. Surrounded by country of great
! forests and low, damp soil of unusual depth
and richness laying as level as a floor, drain
age on a broad scientific plan has converted
| this black, deep swamp into a healthy FL
! Dorado Of blooming and profitable gardens
and truck farms that fill the eamships,
send spring eating to northern markets. in-
vite the skilled gardener OF Europe to settle
and add expanding volume to the trade OF
Savannah.
There are great truck farms around Sa-
vannah handled with consummate skill,
cultivated on the intensive plan, fortified
deep and generously and kept in constant
harvest of a paying succession OF crops OF
vegetables Of every kind-tomatoes, egg
plant, lettuce, potatoes. asparagus, beans,
peas, cabbage and Strawberries.
!, 1fs-xr hnW
make a genuine truck oasis of national
value that will grow to transatlantic im-
portance under the fostering power of direct
trade