24 FLORIDA FRUITS ORANGES. 



Now, look at these figures for a moment, and ask your- 

 self what safe, reliable, legitimate business could you en- 

 gage in at the North with a capital of five hundred dol- 

 lars, and in ten or eleven years have augmented that 

 capital to such an extent. Yet one more example, and we 

 are done. 



In 1874 a gentleman bought, for six thousand dollars, a 

 rich hammock tract of five hundred and sixty acres. On 

 this tract were four acre's in a wild grove, six hundred 

 large, bearing trees besides many young seedlings. The 

 bearing trees he budded, leaving some as they stood, but 

 moving others where they were too crowded. The trees 

 thus moved were of course set back several years in growth, 

 but from the four hundred that were left in their original 

 position, when three years only from the bud, the neat 

 little sum of twelve hundred dollars was obtained ; at four 

 years from the bud these same four hundred presented 

 their fortunate owner with sixteen hundred dollars ; and 

 at five years, one hundred of the transplanted trees having 

 advanced into the ranks of the bearing ones, the crop 

 netted seventeen hundred dollars, and would have brought 

 one thousand more but for a severe gale that blew off a 

 large proportion of the fruit. 



Now this is the showing of just four acres out of five 

 hundred and sixty purchased for six thousand dollars. 

 How about the rest ? Two hundred and sixty acres have 

 been sold for twenty-one thousand dollars. Three hundred 

 acres and the grove referred to remain in the purchaser's 

 hands ; and on these three hundred acres, laid out in young 

 groves for sale, are six thousand flourishing trees, budded 

 on sour stocks, raised on the place, besides two thousand 

 more in the nursery. Sixty thousand dollars would not 

 purchase these three hundred acres with the bearing trees 

 and young groves they contain. Think for a moment! 



