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and is a very handsome tree, and what more can we ask of 

 a fruit tree ! 



Vineyards, too, are profitable ; and last, not least, there 

 is no country in the world better adapted to the culture of 

 the mulberry tree, and consequently the production of silk. 

 The people are awaking to this fact, and many an acre is 

 already set out in the great silk-worm food, by private in- 

 dividuals and by corporations. 



In fact, after long years of dormant energies, paralyzed 

 by the rule of the "■ancient regime" which has opposed all 

 innovations and clung to old grooves, the northern and 

 older settled portions of Florida are rousing up to new life 

 and energy, and a prosperous future looms up ahead. 



In concluding our review of this section, we need only 

 to add, its health is all one could ask, and the face of the 

 country such as to offer, not only comfortable, but pictur- 

 esque homes, while the fine roads make driving a pleasure, 

 and contribute not a little to sociability among its people. 

 Game is abundant, and fish are plentiful. 



We have, we trust, presented the northern divisions of 

 the State in a fair and honest light ; and, as you see, that 

 light is not altogether dimmed by the more brilliant gleam 

 of the southern sections. 



Next in order, in our examination of types, comes the 

 "Santa Fe Lake Region," which is receiving a goodly 

 share of immigration ; it is a picturesque country, with 

 high, rolling hills, good roads, clear w^ater lakes, deep to 

 the very shores, and clean sandy beaches, beautiful mirrors 

 enframed by green-mantled bluffs, with cosy homes nest- 

 ling on their sides. 



The key of this locality and port of entry, as it were, is 

 Waldo, a thriving town on the line of the Atlantic and 

 Gulf Transit Kailroad, about midway between Cedar Keys 

 and Fernandina, the termini of the road. 



