The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-04-25

ih i"t' Mt. James \, Harris bought
q wild bearing orange grove contain
ing six hundred and twenty-five acres.
for which he gave his notes for $4,000.
some years afterwards ne sold TWEEN
rs thousand dollars worth If trees
and got eighty thousand dollars for
ms cop OF fruit. Those were halcyon
days.
Aftcr visiting the principal places
If n.orest in the little city, using
Fon. L. l. Wartmann for a pilot, We
visited the orange grove of Messrs.
Tonner and Borland. These gentle
men began shipping their Parson
Brown oranges in the early part Of
November, and the latter part of
April finds them shipping their Va
lencias Everything was busy around
the packing house, and the fruit is be-
ing put mp in excellent shape The
fruit is going to market without speck
of blemish. the skin is as thin, the
color as handsome and the fruit itself
as firm and as sweet to the taste as
II is possible for fruit to be. Without
exaggeration we believe that it is as
fine in all respects color, size, firm
ness. flavor and thinness of peel-as
any orange we have ever seen. 1t is
the orange in its perfected state Mr.
Chambliss is going to have a sample
box of this fruit on exhibition in his
bank. and if anyone thinks that We
have exaggerated in any particular,
20 10 the bank and make a personal
examination. After a certain length
of time. these oranges win be given
away, not more than one to each per
sen. and as seeing is believing and
the test $ in the eating, tell us.
please. afler eating yo9rs, if we have
pulled off a fairy story.
It is expected that these oranges
viii bring six or eight dollars Der box.
ana they are worth all that they VIII
bring
The Era is were obtained from Cal
if0rnia. The Valencia scions We're
sent BY istake. ana Frequency two
cons one a Parson Brown ard the
Other Valencia. were grated oa the
same stock. and as tie Naloncias were
so late in ripenius the proprietoys had
determined to cut them down and
have tine PEARSON Brown substituted
instead. ween Mr.. Fond, OF the Flor
ida Fruit Exchange. who had twenty
~ years experience with them in
California. told them that they were
Worth TWO or three lines the value
of the Pars3n Brown or any other va
riety of orange ca The market
Quite a number Of groves that made
Cira ramoi have been reha5iliJated
and more ald more are being brought
rnler cultivation, md as history so
often repez S itself Richard will
soon We himself again
AIR. CeorR Pasteur, If the firm Of
Hclgcnstou & PaSteur Of this city
trs recently purchaser the twelve
-,e sroye 81 Mrs Choaae, and, il is
-4ld secureu bargain Everybody
now beeu amg to realize that an
ctaaee grove is an orange grove, ana
ue industry IS fast assuming place
Waaasidr OF ound timber or mot@y
iu bank
we enjoyed a delicious family din
net with Mrs erwin, who administers
to he wants If the way-t4ring man
m most sumrcuous and sarisfactorS
manner.
After dinner We went on to what
was once Oaklawn, now Proctor We
regrrJ the change although we have
the most unbounded regard for the
great English astronomer who had his
home there for a short while Oak
lawn VAS the name George Wilson
gave il. and there is something in
the name itself soft and rhythmical,
and il is associated with SO many fas-
cinating "reminiscences that we WISH
the old name could be restored to IT,
Going from Oaklawn to Irvine we
passed many fine fields of truck, the
larsest being that OF Messrs Mose4y
and Mathis In an unbroken stretch
we saw one field containing two hun
dred acres of cucumbers, that VIII
soon be ready for the reapers.
While MIR. Mathis has so many
acres to cucumbers, he has lost none
OF his faith in watermelons and can
taloupes. and still has farms in many
states Florida, North and South Gar
DINA and Colorada-and his first love
is for Florida.
There are few states in the Union
that boast of finer farming lands than
that scope of territory stretching
from Oaklawn to Orange Lake Mclh-
tosh. Irvine, Fairfield, Lowell ana