The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-17
LIFE IN FLORIDA.
The Storm Severe one-A Prosper
Gus Tourist Season Expected.

Gus Tourist Season Expected.
Altamonte Springs Fla, Oct 16.-You
may have had a baby cyclone about
Savannah last week, but down in this
strip of the woods" we got the genuine
article, 'all wool and yard wide" Ad-
vance violent winds for three days kept
the orange and lemon trees stirred up
and thorned much fine fruit Then came
the storm itself, with a steady rain that
softened the ground and weighted the
trees, and the loss of magnificent shade
trees fences and fruit trees is general
all over Florida. In orange and lemon
groves the storm left the ground literally
covered with handsome, uniniured fruit
or course, mixed with the usual amount of
thOrned and cracked oranges and,lemons.
one result of this terrible storm will be
the flooding Of an already overstOcked
market with green oranges picked from
the ground. Some large groves are ship
ping as many as $500 of the drop oranges.
grapefruit, and lemons. The shipments
are forced, and win therefore be almost
universal. Prices, Of course, will drop
and this big surplus will keep the market
duIl and depressed until Christmas The
orange growers, however. feel compelled
TO ship these drop oranges that are sound.
as they have already suffered great loss
from thorned and cracked fruit and they
40 not feel willing to entirely lose the
good frult thus suddenly and unexpect7
edly thrown upon their hands by one of
the worst storms ever known in the in
terror Of the state. 1t is now a settled
TACT that when the thorned oranges. shall
have fallen, the ripened crop will be only
an average one.
As to the English market, the shin
ments are not only by GOodsell and the
hon l,s,N
Jhls (Orange) county large number of
prominent Englishmen who own finegroves
who are shipping on their own account.
Gen. SwlnhOe, of the British army.
has splendid grove at Lake How
ell, some i've miles from here, and mis-
sou is this year shipping the entire crop
TO England, where the general has sold
IL to large fruit dealer. Gen Swindley.
also OF the British army. has a valuable
grove near Orlando, and Mr. William
Wlllett, retired English gentleman. has
a beautiful grove on Lake Maitland. All
these growers are trying the English mar
ket, and possibly great many more of
Lhelr countrymen hereabouts are
DONG the same Then our ma
tive growers and adopted citizens
from the north and west have tried the
GOodseu scheme Some were satisfied
and others not at all pleased with the re-
SUIT. Mr.. George Frost, of Boston. Mass
VINO mas a DIG grove here and is also a
large real estate owner and stookholder in
the SPLENDID Altamonte SPRINGS botei
strongly advocates GOOdselps scheme Tor
direct and regular shipments 10 England
Mr.. frost Is firm believer in Florida
ana It's products, and his belief is backed
py lnesolld investment Of thousands of dol
lars here. lie claims that his first shin
.i'eht OF go boxes brought him good re-
Turns not nearly as good as If he had NOT
put in tlirtl-seyeu boxes of russets IIis
Olher oranges were bright, good Size.
properly picked and packed. and sold
Meu' Mnat Mr.. Frost desires is 10 see only
tooN oranges. carefully put up. shipped I'M
tnels experimental efforts 10 create in
i-Ns'4Na permanent demand for Florida