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CHAPTER XII. 



TOMATOES. 



While the tomato is grown very exten.sively in all parts 

 of Florida, the lower East Coast is what might be called the 

 tomato section. In this part of the State they can grow 

 tomatoes the entire winter, and make good money out of 

 them. Many a rich East Coast tomato grower came to Flor- 

 ida without a cent in his pockets, and had to get some one 

 tc run him until he made his first crop. There is no other 



A Field of Duke of York Toiiatoes. 

 Florida crop that will give you as generous returns for the 

 money and labor invested as this one will. Another thing 

 that should make the tomato appeal to the new settler in 

 Florida is that it does fine on new land that has just been 

 cleared, and there are very few crops that can l)e grown 

 on this kind of land until the sourness is removed from it. 



