The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-02-04
DR.. HUBBARD Writes
ABOUT ST. PETERSBURG
Wonderful Climate And Delightful
Place To Live But Advises Against
Putting Money Into Land Schemes
And Orange Groves.

things in first class shape. \ brok-
en- pavement or an i'll disposed person
is Immediately mended or sent out
Of town. Nothing is allowed at
tractive to wrong thinking people.
This fact is most impressive and
holds strangers in a strong grip, III
deed. many who come for visit buy
homes.
Because the season for st. Peters
burg is winter time and the vast ma
,iority of the people are from the
North and young people back there
are either at school or at work, the
people here are, as a rule, above
forty. They have either made their
fortune or are broken in health and
are out for a good time in an out OF
door country. They are able to pay
their way but have hay-seed all over
them. In the day time we sit ton
The porohes. in the parks, swim or
listen to free music and at night we
sleep under blankets. The stores
are large, varied and run by yankees.
All edible foods are. by law, screen
ed from any stray fly or partlclei oi
dust. The freest city on earth trohi
living insects Ordi TT and yet the one
most perfectly screened. The Dusl
ness is mostly along one street anu
space, during the tourist season, Is
SO valuable that two women nave
each opened a store in spaces pc
tween houses one sc inches and the
other % inches wide. They back IN
and close a little gate, hanging the
sien of things to sell outside, using
The top of the gates for counters.
A friend invited us to visit and IN
spect his home lit is a gem. Inc IN
side was typical southern arrang-
ed-all on one fioor-into a SUIT OF
charmingly furnished rooms. Ihe'
outside was a dream. On the SIDES
was highly colored shrubbery in WHO
profus.on. In the front were rare
beautiful trees and flowers. In Inc
rear were orange and grape fruit ana
pap paw and comquot trees, gar
den or potatoes. tomatoes, lettuce
End cabbage. Back of all this a
grass plot running down to the bay.
# there can be a lovelier home than
rbis it is the same one and the added
excellence is the winter atmosphere
Of Western Florida.
From here we drove through a
Jungle, suggestive of monkeys, Gam
and Abel and wild cats-a confused
mass of Palmetto, Live OAKS ana
Pines hanging full of parasite mos
and creepy with dense grass III
which rattle snakes glide about the
intruders feet. Suddenly our auto
shot out into what is called the semi
mole Orchard section. Here the
orange trees were of immense 8izt
and loaded with yellow balls from
ION to the ground - the gredfesA
orange orchard on earth, recon
our guess is 40 bushels of oraigesl
10 the tree, After passing thrstssF
these wonderful orchardE MsuussI
81 mi =, - z rsT
hotel There are 800 acres Of land
1000 rooms and many smaiief
houses.
These immense grounds are falo
out by engineers for play grounds fol
grown folks. When we undersqano
how this western coast lends lrsell
TO Identification by skillfully plant
ing everblooming flowers and ever
green shrubbery and eVergro"lns
trees, of all kinds and colors' WIN
streams of salt water running mere
and there bridges by most arttul
hands, whilst the gulf waves roll
rea lpearls upon the sandy, our
go up and we cry, Eureka!
But the most beautiful thing IN
all is the swimming pool, this was
under the open sky-it was, ABOUT
100 feet by 100 feet; the floor was
stone and the walls marble; the
water was both strained and clean
ed and was so clear that you coulo
see a min on the bottom. The water
was nine and half feet Deep
around the pool was a covered way
full of easy rocking chairs; at one
end the space was wide enough TOT
a band of music and dancing moor
the maiden who swims here must De
as trim as a trout and as spry as
kitten.
All along the shores of the bay
and gulf are handsome homes. &C
cupied, as is the hotel, for less than
three months in the year-summer
homes in midwinter.
While Florida is an ideal State
fo,. the aged of the North to 1--we IN
during the winters and an opporLuhl-
ty for the spectators IN laho anu
town sites, it is dangerous country
from Tom, Dick and Harry to invest
their meager savings in. Lou IoF
homes and plots for orange orcn-
ards that look well and promise pct
ter on paper. are valleys OF death 10
the money and hopes of thousands
who can get bread and to spare
"back home" An orange orchard
is often worth less than it costs and
MANY town lots, sold to those VINO
have not seen before buying, are De
v0nd the limits of any town ana un-
der water most of the time. POOR
sandy land, fairly good drinking
waer. fine bathing shores, wonder
fnI climate, weather and soil adapted
tn citrus fruits is Florida offering 10
man. Going down into arteslan
denths for water, fertilizing 1ntelll-
gently and extensively the soil. us
inc the natives genius for cultlVat-
ing the orange, securing reasonable
and swift transportation and nndlng
honest and intelligent commission
men, is mans part in this whole
business. l can buy for a dollar
more oranges than l can send nome
for several dollars.
Another big thing in this connec-
tion is the flavor of the orange.
Most of the oranges are sour, just
as sour here as when sold North.
Some are sweet just as sweet there
as. here. Some grape fruit Is sweet
enough to eat right off the trees.
some tangerines are sour and some
are sweet. All these favors are i'm
proving - getting sweeter This
process is both tedious and costly;
It can only be done by inner graft
ing. Orange trees live long ana
hear heavier as they grow older.
Let all prospective purchasers from
Dorchester County beware. R1ch
men or moderately rich men have
made Florida a paradise. A para
disc for the man of sufficient means
to live without earning dollars.
There is more money in the soil of
the Eastern Shore and more dollars
in the Choptank waters than in this
State Of blessed climate.