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Title: A winter in Florida: or, Observations on the soil, climate, and products of our semi-tropical state
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Bill, Ledyard, 1836-1907
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Publisher: New York, Wood & Holbrook
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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CHAPTER XIV. FRUITS. The Orange. — Its Cultivation. — The Several Varieties. — ARoasted Bitter-Sweet.—The Wild Orange a Native ofFlorida.—The Frost of 1835.—The Orange a Prolific Bearer. — Peculiarities of the Orange. — Scarcity of Orange-Groves.—Where the largest mav bo seen. — The Lemon and Lime. — 16 CONTENTS. PAGE The Grape indigenous. — Tlie Scuppernong. — Florida as aWine-growing Country.—Peach-Culture.—Figs and Pome-granates flourish 195 CHAPTER XV. HIXTS TO IMMIGRANTS. — THE SOCIAL CONDITION. Value of Lands. — The Florida Land Company. — The Fernan-dina and Cedar Keys Railroad. — Inducements to Settlers.— What Immigrants should do. — Cost of clearing Lands. —Colonies along the St. Johns. — Negro Labor. — The Reasonof Idleness. — The Poor Basket-maker. — His Trials, Suffer-ings, and Fears. — The Social Condition of the South. — AnUn-reconstructed Carolinian. — Spirit of the People. — TheirNecessities and Prospects 212
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A WINTER IN FLORIDA. INTEODUCTORY CHAPTER. WHAT TO EXPECTj AND HOW TO GO. The Mania for Travel. — Conti-ast iu the Modes of Livhig. — TheSouth behind the Age. — Absence of Home Comforts. — Floridaa Wilderness.—Luxuries from the North.—How to go to Florida.— The Best Routes. — Benefits of a Sea-Voyage. The visitor to Florida is likely to be disappointedin many respects. The exchange of the comfortsof a home for a temporary residence in any remoteportion of our country is always effected at a sac-rifice ; and those who undertake journeys, whetherfor pleasure or health, have to learn the lesson ofcircumscribing their wants, and, not unlikely,many of their necessities. How many of ourfashionable people feel it imperative to arrangesome excursion by rail and river in midsummer to 17 18 A WINTER IN FLORIDA. the over-packed liotels, where tliey are bundledinto the fiftli story, and then families crammed intoone or two confined and heated rooms, in exchangefor their cool and a