: which cattle can be drivenif necessary. Droveso 
_ Notices of the Floridas, §c. 139 
uction of the ordinary crops, wheat, corn, cot- 
ton,| toes, @ tice, Florida possesses no advantange over 
the T iaseatick: but it has a superiority for the cultivation 
of the sugar cane, of orange, olive, and pt trees. In Geor- 
gia the cane rarely matures except near its southern ex- 
tremity, and is often destroyed by early ier It is seldom 
that more than three joints afford good juice. In East Flori- 
da canes will havea growth of nine and ten months, affording 
juice mature for erystallization, yielding a third more sugar 
than the Georgia canes. ‘The rattoon in Florida sur- 
vives the winter, saving the expense of annual planting. Ine 
the southern oh of the peninsula, the growth will be un- 
checked by frost “8 
The oranges of Florida are the best brought to the 
northern market, and the crop more certain than in a high- 
er latitude. The ora age trees of Georgia and Louisiana 
have been generally killed to the root within a few years 
by severe frosts, an effect unknown in Florida.. There are 
trees in St. Augustine upwards of a century old, and date- 
trees sixty—likewise olive-trees mature in size and very 
oat te The fig-tree yields successive crops in the 
ummer without blossoming. ‘The fruit may be profita- 
bly dr ied. The palma christa is now considerably culti- 
vated. Coffee slintacdns will not succeed in the territo- 
ries, as the slightest ed destroys the ried Ae no part of 
Florida is exempt for many years from fro 
For grazing, the clienaté of East Florida j is s preferable to 
that of Georgia, Alabama, or Mississippi. In these states 
much stock is lost from a scanty supply of nourishment in 
winter. In East Florida there is rarely a deficiency from 
the severity of frosts. In the southern part of the peninsula 
ere is perpetual verdure, and there are great ier: to 
orses can be supported through the year at a trifling ex- 
pense on the spontaneous productof the savannas, prairies, 
and extensive low pine lands, that are well watered in the 
hot months. The grasses of the wet sandy lands and of 
the prairies are generally fine and preferred by native 
horses and cattle to other food. In March I observed cattle, 
fed on the Alachua savanna, sufficiently fat for any market. 
Southern mules are more valuable than northern, and c 
be advantageously raised in Florida. The native horses 
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