The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-24
FLORIDA ORANGE REGION
Where Mssnlfcent Groves Are to Be Found
Ia Abundance.
THERE IS NO TRACE OF FEBRUARY FREEZE
Predicted That Large Shipments OF
Fruit Will he Made This Year
and Neat.
Jacksonville (Fia.) Times Union.

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Florida as to the probability OF there eve
9 being oranges in quantities to ship out 0
: the State, we suggest they pack their grip
! and take the trip the writer recently mad
: through the eastern, western and southern
j portions OF the State. There you can Sc
? orange groves and oranges, pineries ant
i pines.
4 While walking and riding through these
sections OF the State, you wonder what the
talk about freezes means. will not enum-
crate all the groves visited-the Times
Union and Citizen would be obliged Ia
issue an extra should the details Of the
many groves be recorded. Find your way
to st. Petersburg. one Of the lovely town.
CT the State. Get rig and drive out
and F. G. Lawrie; there you will see
orange trees. thirty feet high. with an
!; abundant crop OF oranges. To be sure
the cold snaps of February last, destroyed
portion Of the bloom; still, enough de-
veloped to give the fine crop now on the
trees. In looking at these trees one who
is familiar with the more northern por-
I tions of the State can but wonder what
the people on the Pinellas Peninsula refer
to when speaking OF the damage to trees
from the February cold snap. 1t really did
/ no damage. except to terminal branches
and bloom.
The wonderful growth on trees all over
the State, from exceptionally fine weather
the past spring and summer has obliterat-
ed all signs OF damage at this point. The
trees are there In evidence. If the bloom
| can be saved next spring the crop will be
| immense.
| Call at Colonel A! D. Williams C. W.
| Buffers, ]. C. Williams and feast your
eyes on mature healthy trees holding guam
titles OF fruit. See the many groves under
control OF Colonel Jenners, c. w. Spring
stead and others too numerous to mention
all large. fine trees full OF life beauty,
and lots of fruit
After seeing these groves, and you can
not do 1t in one day. or two, or three, one
con not realize that in the northern por-
tons of the State the groves are in the con-
dition they are. To see these groves gives
the more afflicted orange grower hope that
what has been may be, and that in two
or three years We of the more northern
portion of the State may rejoice with the /
favored ones Of the southern portion In |
abundant crops of the luscious Florida
orange.
Seeing is believing; Just go south and
get braced up. Try. it.
North from ST. Petersburg, through
Dunedin, you find the same state of af-
fairs Visit the fine grove of j. NJ. Nc
Chung at Dunedin, and see the effect of a
little hre built among his trees on the
morning OF the February cold. Mr.. McClung
will show you his thirtyfoot trees, hun
dreds of them, where no perceptible dam
age can be found even on terminal
branches. and a fine crop OF oranges ON
them, His firing was SO successful that
the majority OF grove owners in the South
are preparing to follow his example should
1t become necessary this winter. These
trees are fine, and will produce large crops ,
of oranges Examine his mandarin trees, ,
SO full of fruit that they are propped in
every conceivable way; tangerines the .
same. Passing through these groves, you
still wonder who said freeze The groves /.
under control of Messrs. Somerville Doug T, :
lass, Collins and Skinner are a few of ,
the many fine groves around Dunedin. =
AT Largo We find Philip ]. Bayly, gen. i
al English cousin, with soft spot IN !,
his heart for his fellow-man, the owner
Of the we'll known Sandsfoot grove, whose !.
oranges are famors wherever they are '.
shipped. After seeing his trees, you sill :,
wonder where the freeze comes in. Mr.. =
3ayly will have liberal shipments of fruit =
tut of the State his year. The Markley, :
amison and White groves, and many !.
others. but repeat the story. !.
Ozona, Sutherland and Clearwater will y
duplicate all we have written. w. L. john a
on owns and controls forty acres of =
orange trees that are pride. He will u
'ut carloads into the market. and his :.
ruit has reputation. G. S. Rogers is y
trietly in it, and will put money in his d
pocket from his crop. DR.. NJ V. Allen :,
grove that. like many others. !. %
las distinctive features, all its own. any u
which groves would would seem to sat ~ ~
sly anyone. This description can be con- ~
ENued indefinitely. as but a few of the "
'roves have been mentioned. 80 80
This section Is most fayorably located : :,
n bay and ocean. These groves, within r
wo years. Will astonish the people who c W
mink there are no oranges In Florida. ~
Al Thonotosassa, Plant City, Seffner and j.,
II that region, you will find trees full of ~ ..
ealth and vigor with bearing surface VI
nat Will add many thousands of boxes of u
ranges to the output another year. The 81
'ebruary cold destroyed more bloom
nrough that section than on the west ca
iq ne me trees are an right and look fine. ~ ~
DOWN the Charlotte Harbor division. at q
Vauchula, Arcadia and south to Punta SC
orda and Myers, you will find hundreds of hi
sres OF bearing trees full of oranges, in "
uding towns away from the railroad on or
lie east and west sides. tn
WINE at Nocatee. near Arcadia. look in ar
n Colonel T. j. Watkins genial person ye
H..
is grove. No freeze. no frost there In
velye hundred trees some thirty-hye feet a
gh full OF bright fruit. props through wi
10 grove. to prevent the immense punches 20
fruit from breaking the limbs. There we
O. ninety grape fruit trees with fully
700 boxes OF fruit on them. That sounds co
g You can see them II you go there. 1t
he colonel sold his crop of oranges and of
apefruit for a large sum OF money. He orr
a kindly man, and think out OF this a
OF his nature. he allowed tho otl
Eyer good bargain. ] think tho buyer fir,
III make 80 per cent on his investment COZ
9TH are satisfied. This grove reminds one ia.
old times. While passing among the all
ees one can not by any stretch OF mag vii
alton, or from evidence before him. ar,
ID one thing to base the theory OF du
ceze upon. 1t Is doubtful II this groy. dil
n be matched in the State Certainly yei
% writer would have allowed a deere, T
two for exaggeration had he been told the
ont 1t, and not seen It, orf
Colonel Watkins and others are putting eli,
: thousands of young orange trees. In
r. A. Thomas OF Arcadia has profted an,
his experience. and has 1000 tangerjne TIL