TEMPERATURE — SUIUlMER. 89 



The warm season usually sets in about the middle of 

 May and continues until the middle of September, when 

 a sensible difference will be noticed. 



And now, as to the nights during the Florida summer, 

 they are invariably cool and refreshing. Here no one 

 ever rises in the morning worn out with a night of rest- 

 less tossing and inability to sleep because of heat and 

 sultriness. 



There is always the breeze ready to dance through your 

 rooms, if allowed, and fan you to sleep, a good, sound, 

 refreshing sleep, and no one who knows Florida will retire 

 without having some extra covering lying convenient at 

 the foot of the bed, for it is almost certain to be needed 

 before morning. 



ISTow, how does this record compare with the summer 

 nights elsewhere ? 



Florida is in the far South, it is true, but she neither 

 roasts nor boils her honest citizens who stand by her, not 

 only in winter but in summer. Let the doubters come, 

 see, and feel for themselves ; let them come from the land 

 of snow and ice, and hot, sultry days and stifling nights ; 

 from the land of storms and clouds and tornadoes and 

 blizzards, and compare with these things Florida's mild 

 winter and cool summer, her refreshing nights, her aver- 

 age of three hundred clear days out of the three hundred 

 and sixty-five, and her gentle, invigorating breezes. 



Having now, as we trust, proven beyond dispute by 

 facts and figures that the climate of Florida is the most 

 healthy, as it certainly is the most pleasant in the world, 

 and therefore unsurpassed so far in the * ' raAv material " 

 that goes to make up a home full of happiness and con- 

 tentment, we will pass on to the consideration of those 

 points that must influence the settler in the locality he 

 shall select for his new residence. 



