20 HOME LIFE IN FLORIDA. 



clothing and fuel; profit, too, in raising a few chickens 

 and vegetables ; and meantime, for the future, may have 

 growing on her little property a few well-cared-for orange 

 and other fruit trees. For mark well this fact: a few 

 trees properly tended will pay better and quicker than five 

 times the number only half nourished and cultivated. 

 One acre of land set with choice orange trees, say fifty of 

 them, with peach, fig, and pear trees in the diamonds and 

 corners, and vegetables raised between them, will in a few 

 years go far toward supplying the wants of any reasonable 

 family. And there are very few who could not acquire 

 this much of landed property in bonnie Florida. 



Florida offers opportunities for the energetic and indus- 

 trious in every class of life, from the great capitalist down 

 to the common day laborer. In all her towns workmen of 

 every kind are in request at excellent wages, with less ex- 

 pense for clothing and fuel and house rent to be met than 

 at the North. In every one of the numerous towns spring- 

 ing up all over the State, wherever and whenever the fast- 

 spreading net work of transportation lines- reaches out its 

 life-giving arms — in every one of these numerous towns 

 there are openings ready and waiting for all who choose to 

 grasp them. For the man or woman who would embark in 

 mercantile pursuits, with only a small capital to start with ; 

 for the merchant, the dressmaker, the tinsmith, the milli- 

 ner, the baker, the washer and ironer, the blacksmith, the 

 carpenter — for each and all, in fact, Florida has a welcome 

 and a home. 



The day has gone by when there was employment in 

 Florida only for builders and those connected with horti- 

 cultural pursuits. "Many men of many minds" can now 

 find plenty of opportunities to ply their several callings 

 with profit. Merchants, manufacturers, capitalists are 

 coming in day by day, and as to the future resources and 



