2 WILSON & TOOMER FERTILIZER COMPANY 



Varieties 



We have many varieties of soil, the almost pure sand 

 over coarser sand subsoil upon which are planted the 

 largest and finest pineapple fields of the world; the 

 sandy loams of various degrees of richness over subsoils 

 of yellow sand, clay or marl, upon which are our mag- 

 nificent citrus groves, famous melon, strawberry, and 

 potato fields, Sea Island cotton, corn, and hay farms, 

 and the coming pecan orchards. Then, to the south are 

 the Everglade lands which are in a class to themselves, 

 and their development is largely in the future. Since I 

 confine my communications to actual facts, not hopes, 

 with the statement that marvelous crops have been 

 made where there is a marl subsoil and drainage has 

 been secured, I will drop the Everglades and go back 

 to our various sandy loams. These are classed by their 

 virgin growth which is influenced largely by water con- 

 tent. 



The larger portion are pine lands, "high pine," "heavy 

 pine/' and "flat woods." The high pine is rather in- 

 clined to be thirsty, but is the site of many good groves, 

 especially of grapefruit which is a rather better forager 

 than the orange tree. The "spruce-pine ridges" are 

 similar to the high pine land. The heavy pine is lower, 

 richer soil, generally has undergrowth of saw palmetto 

 and is intersected by strips of cabbage palmetto which 

 indicate more moisture and by savannas growling only 

 grass as proof that for a considerable part of the year 



