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vegetable garden attached to the hotel. 

 Like the one we saw at Palatka it was 

 formed by throwing the earth into beds, 

 so that the walks were trenches. The 

 vejretables were lettuce, cabbage and 

 cauliflower, tomato plants about ten 

 inches high, and potatoes almost ready 

 to blossom, a few peas and some nice 

 looking beets. It would seem as 

 though the celery is kept in the garden 

 all Avinter and used as wanted. Water 

 melons and musk melons were just 

 coming up. 



Florida is an intei-esting country to 

 visit in the winter, especially to those 

 who have never seen this sub-tropical 

 vegetation ; but our northern land in 

 summer is to me fir more beautiful, 

 and our peai*s, plums, peaches, etc., far 

 more delicious than the oranges and 

 bananas of Florida. Many persons are 

 so pleased with the winter temperature 

 here, and so captivated by the wonder- 

 ful accounts of the large sums of money 

 realized by the fortunate owners of 

 orange groves, and so overwhelmed by 

 the generosity of gentlemen willing to 

 part with some of the best orange pro- 



ducing land in the State for a considera- 

 tion, that they are induced to invest ; 

 tliese in turn persuade others, so that 

 Florida is likely to enjoy a very consid- 

 erable increase of population and have 

 her resources wondert'ully developed in 

 tlie near future. Those who make 

 hast-f; slowly, who do not attempt to 

 gi'ow products unsuited to the soil and 

 climate, and can be content to labor 

 and to wait, will reap in due time a 

 remunerative reward. 



CHERRY CL'LTTRE IX COUNTY OF 

 GREY. 

 I have read the Annual Keport for 

 the year 1883. It is vei-y good. I see 

 on page 165 that Mr. Roy says we can- 

 not grow cherries around Owen Sound 

 at all, save in exceptional cases. I 

 reside about four and a half miles from 

 Owen Sound, and have grown them 

 over thirty years, and nothing can 

 grow better nor bear heaviei- crops ; but 

 the plum trees are badly killed. All 

 the trees and plants I received from 

 the Association are doing well. The 

 Burnet grape is doing well, and indeed 



