JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XXIV July, 1923 No. 283 
SPRINGTIME IN FLORIDA 
pringtime is supposed to come sometime in April or May in 
New York City but in Florida it arrives from two to four months 
earlier, depending upon whether the observer is in the northern 
or southern part of the state. 
New York on the afternoon of March 3 for Jacksonville, 
intending to spend several weeks in various parts of Florida 
scattered pine groves - Nort bes ageres and: aby. the time I was 
aed for breakfast, h Carolina, ees 
w long-leaf pine, holly, honeysuckle, and live-oak, while 
d um tre 
feel Da of matciesus in flower. It was a land of cotton 
andt sf Tet lLet. 
Seat tree seen in the yards, both in the Carolinas and in 
Georgia, was the umbrella-tree; which grows quick! > ag a 
injures trees by keeping out the light and air, but is useful for 
the manufacture of mattresses, cushions, etc. 
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