The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-14

blaze the way through forests, hammocks,
over streams. swamps and lakes with his
lines of railway and recently he has
capped the climax by throwing line
almost the full length of the east coast,
parallel with these beautiful stretches of
water, and is about to complete dredging
artificial canals, which gives continu-
Gus navigable water route almost the full
length of the east coast. As a result
emigrants are pouring in by the hun
dreds, the shipments of winter grown
vegetables and of pine apples are being
doubled, if not trebled, every season,
while oranges and other fruits are receiv.
ing due attention.
The tourist tide as well as that of emf
grafton has turned this way and the
steamboats, and cars are taxed to their
utmost to accommodate the masses
Hotel Royal Poinciana, capable of enter
tanning 500 guests, was completed and
thrown open for guests in February and
before the season closed, less than three
months, more than $1,000 names were
registered! This is only one instance of
scores of such enterprises. The founda-
ton for the first house in the white
City" on Indian river was laid less than
two months ago and now they have a
population of nearly 1000 people, all
whites, no negroes being permitted to
come there. This growth is rapid but it
has been going on now for some time.
There is nothing strange about it--sim-
pie as A BC's. We are almost surrounded
by water, the warm gulf stream washes
our east coast, we can grow fruits and
vegetables in midwinter, we are just
placed within three days of New YOrk's
markets, thousands of aristocrats with
plethoric purses want these products.
Then think of our Incompatible adj
vantages as health giving cline. The
sun laughs out with face of dazzling
gold almost every day in the year; con-
slant but mild and bracing breezes fan
our faces bronze; there are no freezing
winters to chill the blood; the seasons
come and go in our soft round of spring.
One would judge from the hundreds of
invalid tourists here that the injunction,
T. Honor thy father and thy mother"
etc, has been changed to "come to the
Florida east coast that thy days may be
long" etc. would not have you be-
lieve that our seasons, if they may be
called seasons, are always on schedule
time and suited to demands; quite the
contrary sometimes. Droughts are some
times followed by repeated, drenching
rains crops of extraordinary value are
followed by direst failures and we are
thus led to wonder whether Florida is a
bountiful, kind parent or a merciless
step-mother.
Florida is unquestionably the greatest
state for fruit in the union, and yet
many of Kentucky's choicest fruits,
such as apples, peaches, cherries, plums,
etc, grow very indifferently here. / can
not recall the names of all our fruits,
probably not more than half of them:
melons, such as are grown in Kentucky,
strawberries, raspberries, dewberries,
grapes, numerous varieties; figs, pine
apples, some of which attain weight of
fifteen pounds guavas, sweet and sour
of various kinds grape fruit, bread fruit,
oranges (tangarines, mandarins, naval
and the ordinary orange of the markell
lemons, lines, Japan persimmons, man
Cos, sugar apples, tamarinds lOquats or
Japan plums, pomegrants, grown on
trees; paw.paws, bananas, cocoanuts,
palmetto berries, sapodillas, mammees,
avacados, mulberries, Leconte pears and
pecan-to peaches. The commonest sort
of cracker" here can spread fruits on
his table that would be the envy of the
northern millionaire.
As any one with the slightest knowl-
edge of pomology woold infer we have n
variety of soil. The principal classes
enumerated by the land companies are /:
High hammock, low hammock, half ham
mock, high pine, low pine, spruce pine
savanna prairie, coquina, phosphate,
muck, beach, and hard pan land. They
speak also of northern Florida, semi
tropical and sub-tropical Florida, though
the latter is distinction without diff
ference.
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