402 HOME LIFE IN FLORIDA. 



To expect to find the same soil and conditions of life and 

 society here as those left behind would be foolish indeed. 

 No man will find money growing on the bushes along the 

 roadsides, vegetables that plant and cultivate themselves, 

 or orange trees that come into bearing in two or three years 

 from the seed; neither w^ill he find desirable lands and 

 bearing groves to be given away, as though of no value 

 to the owner. 



The settler who is well-to-do and seeks a Florida home, 

 not to mend his broken fortunes, but simply for his own 

 or his family's health, will have no difficulty in finding 

 plenty of beautiful, healthful, desirable places, located 

 near the cities or transportation facilities, where every 

 comfort and luxury can be procured ; but he will have to 

 pay for these things just as he would any w^here else. 



If he wants to farm and "turn the soil" to his profit, 

 he must study its nature and capabilities, learn the ways 

 and means of semi-tropical products, and not be above 

 taking advice from his neighbors, even though they may 

 possess but little of the book-learning Avhich has served 

 him elsewhere, but w^ill prove here an insufiScient guide. 



If he wants to go into business or procure employment, 

 he must go about it exactly as he would "up North," or 

 any where else : look out for localities where there is busi- 

 ness to be done of the kind he desires to enter into, and 

 then, having found it, advertise the fact that he is there 

 on the spot and ready to supply the demand. 



These are the kind of settlers that Florida wants, as we 

 have said elsewhere ; not tramps, here to-day, there to-mor- 

 row, nor wild enthusiasts mounting high on a hobby-horse, 

 and then, after a brief gallop, plunging headlong into the 

 "Slough of Despond." 



We have recorded enough in these pages, and in those of 

 a former work ("Florida Fruits and How to Raise Them"), 



