The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
The Market Garden and Fish Country

We lately wrote about strawberry
! land Today the editor is by the
roaring ATLANTIC, just south of Capu
Lookout, where the fishermen are
! loading the cars with Spanish mack
erel and blue fish in boxes of ice for
| the Northern markets, and they keen
big ice factory running to supply
| the ice.
On the way here from the capital
| of North Carolina we made a stop
| of several hours ut the town of Colds
boro, and we spent the time in look
ing at what people were growing in
their gardens and lawns. Every door
yard has it's big bush of Cardinal
Florida, commonly known as Cape
Jessamine, and they We're just be-
ginning TO open Their fragrant white
flowers Those who know the Cape
Jessamine only from little pot plants
in Northern green houses, can hardly
realize the luxuriance and beauty of
the plant when grown outdoors in Il
faVoring climate, where they grow in
great masses Is feet high and "a
many across. But just now the most
SNOWY plants in the Goldsboro lawns
are the great double lowered pome-
granateS Trees 20 feet high, branch
ed from the ground and covered all
over with great double flowers of bril-
liant scarlet as large as large roses,
made an immense show and the brill
liant flowers are well set among the
glossy leaves. Grape, myrtleS are also
OF tree-like stature and in July and Au-
gust will be masses of bloom. Mag
nolia Grandiflora is everywhere and
is opening it's great white flowers.
Sixty miles further southwark We
reached the city of New Bern, on
the junction of Trent and Neuse Riv-
ers, and mere we struck the wide fields
of early cabbages, potatoes. beans and
muskmelonS Two long trains Were
just going North loaded with early
potatoes and cabbages, and at every
station the platforms were covered
with barrels of potatoes and crates of
cabbages. AT New Bern, in addition
TO the shrubbery seen blooming at
;5oldsboro, we first met with great
masses of snowy white oleanders
blooming i'm the lawns, and on one
lawn facing the broad river we saw
the first palm tree, a splendid speci-
men of the Chinese Fan palm, Cham
crops Fortunii. about 15 feet high
and clothed with leaves from the bast,
making a far mora graceful tree than
the native palmetto. the cabbage palm
of the South, and fully as hardy, for
the past winter has been an unuSu-
ally cold one and this tree showed
no signs of injury, while palmettoes
elsewhere are scorched.
Through wide, grassy Pocosins,
with scattered pines, we reached the
terminus of the railroad at Morehead
City, where across the narrow cove
we could see the great sand dunes OF
the outer beach. 1t is said that more
fish are shipped from this point than
anywhere on the Atlantic coast ana
the fishing is on all-the-year business,
winter and summer, for on this sunny
coast the winter is the greatest har-
vest time for the fishermen, as prices
are then better and less ice is need
ed. The great size the Spanish mack
erel attains here is wonderful, ana
Just noW the trolling for them is TIA
greatest sport of the hotel visitors,
and wonderful catches are being
made. The boatmen have their
"sharpies" nicely fitted up and supply
the amateur fisherman with lines and
bait and the sport is fine. So with
surf bathing ana fishing the editor
is trying to Hecuper2te.