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two cents, and some of the trees do not bear, as well as others. 

 This would be $26 to the tree; probably the average is $12.66 

 per tree for each year. The orange crop of Florida is simply the 

 same as the apple crop of the North. The question, then, is, do 

 apple trees average $12.66 per tree % Then a great many people 

 think the orange tree requires no work or attention. This is a 

 mistake ; yet it requires but little. The scale insect is, so far, its only 

 enemy. Mr. Hart's grove was not greatly hurt by them before. I 

 understood him to say his grove was twenty-four years old. What 

 the gentleman* says about the number of trees planted is true, and 

 he may be correct about the number dead, as thousands were set out 

 without proper care or knowledge, or care or attention paid to 

 them after setting out. Mr. Hardee, of Jacksonville, guarantees 

 ninety per cent, of those he sells and sets out, to live, if they are 

 placed under his care. It is the simplest of folly to suppose that an 

 orange tree can be treated as one would an oak or a pine ; yet such 

 is about the manner many in Florida have been treated. As to 

 trucking, the line of the Jacksonville and Pensacola railroad is the 

 place for that business, not the St. John's. Gentlemen near Live 

 Oak told me they had made money there. The seasons are about 

 two weeks earlier than at Charleston. Florida has been puffed too 

 much, but it has many good qualities, and they can be developed by 

 hard work. In my opinion the special crop of Florida is sugar-cane, 

 and more money can be made raising it rather than oranges. As to 

 transportation, every one has the choice of three routes now, and the 

 figures given me by the A. & G. railroad were certainly very cheap. 

 All those things regulate themselves. The St. John's is a broad 

 stream, open to the world, and, if it pays, more boats will quickly be 

 put upon it. 



Apple-growing at the South. 

 Prof. Colton showed specimens from an orchard of 4,500 trees, in 

 Calena. Alabama, planted in 1864 and 1865 by Mr. Adams, from 

 Massachusetts. Mr. Adams informed him that he could sell all he 

 had on hand, at five to six dollars per barrel, in Selma and Mont- 

 gomery. The orchard contains, beside the apple trees, about 400 

 pear trees, of all the best varieties, yielding fruit, which was sold to 

 the railroad passengers at seven dollars per bushel. The success of 

 this orchard shows that fruit of good quality can be grown even that 

 far south. The soil is limestone, and the growth of the woods oak 

 and yellow pine. The orchard is fenced with a thrifty hedge of 



