''where shall I SETTLE?" 101 



Florida is a very large State, embracing an area of over 

 sixty thousand square miles, and all varieties of climate, 

 from a tropical to a temperate, consequently the general 

 term of " Florida " is too sweeping in its application, and 

 the necessity for a more particular descriptive title has been 

 met as above. 



South Florida proper embraces the country south of 

 twenty-eight and a half degrees of latitude. 



Middle Florida lies between this and the thirtieth degree, 

 while Northern Florida (embracing also "West Florida") 

 claims the remainder of the State. 



As we have indicated, this latter is the section to suit the 

 settler whose main object is not the cultivation of the 

 citrus family. 



Here is the Florida for live stock, corn, wheat, grapes, 

 figs, peaches, and all the products of a more rigorous cli- 

 mate, and a few of the hardier southern fruits ; it is not 

 tropical, it does not pretend to be, but it is beautiful, and 

 more like the North we have left behind us than any other 

 portion of the State ; and better live stock and crops, at so 

 little expense and so great a profit, can be produced no- 

 where, than in Northern Florida. Frosts are of no infre- 

 quent occurrence and the winters are quite cool. 



Middle Florida lies between the twenty-eighth and thirti- 

 eth parallels, and its products are those of the semi- tropics. 



Here one may see the vegetation of the temperate and 

 the tropical zones growing side by side ; only the long sum- 

 mer is sometimes hard upon the former, and an occasional 

 winter frost chills the ardor of the latter. 



The orange, lemon, lime, grape, fig, guava, peach, and 

 all garden vegetables grow and flourish in close proximity 

 all the year round, with the occasional mishaps before 

 alluded to. 



Cotton, cane, cow-peas, and rice, pay best of the field 



