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far north for absolute safety, and I noticed that many farmers 
were growing cabbage and lettuce, which they were busy boxing 
for shipment. The young trees in a few new orange groves 
were half killed by the recent cold spell, when the thermometer 
stood at 34 degrees F. at Jacksonville. From Lowell to Martin, 
Ocala is a 
garages, and the humble homes re a people Much line 
with red ae pas and the grower need not be afraid of 
frost. At the comfortable town Of pe sburg, I bought three 
juicy oranges ae a little boy at the station for a nickel, and 
I could have had them for the asking if I had gone out to the 
orchards. 
The rest of the journey, from Leesburg to Croom and Brooks- 
ville, was rather barren and uninteresting compared with what 
I had just been through. Ther e ridges covered with pines, 
ridges with oaks, lakes and swamps, and one or two scattered 
were about the only wild things I saw in motion. 
rning of March 6, I hired a motor-car and drove to 
the Brooksville homme ts, where I spent the better part 
of the day alone in this vast, oe wilderness of trees and 
ees owth. The fungi were m ut I was sur- 
eee by interesting piste of all kinds and ihe spring season 
cree beginning. The hornbeam, hop hornbeam, sweet gum, 
and dogwood were all in flower and looked familiar. The live- 
oak and a white oak with leaves like our chestnut-oak were also 
viburnum, cabbage palmetto, and dwarf palmetto grew as shrubs 
or small trees, over which clambered various vines, such as the 
