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* From this first introduction of the A pike ius Ww. Florida the 
plants aia rapidly, especially on the mainland, being commonly 
transplanted to the ehm of she gy settlers of south Florida, chiefly 
rnament. 
“These facts are considered worthy of mention, as showing that Mors 
every other evidence of former cultivation has long since disa 
the Sisal hemp, essct of forest irem — and neglect, still holds 
“In the remarks of Dr. En elmann, i in Appendix A., the * Yaxci’ 
form, Agave ridiga, var. sisalana, is so fully described that there can be 
no doubt as to the plant that is meant. e late Dr. Parry, at one tim 
February 1871, at Key West, and on the adjacent islands, and describes 
the leaves as ** pale en but not glaucous, 4 to and 4 to 
* 6 inches wide, generally smooth-edged, but here and there having a 
* few unequal, sometimes very stout and sharp teeth." This is the 
plant a. into Florida by Dr. Perrine, for fibre culture, and 
considered by ngelmann to be “the most valuable of the fibre- 
producing Agave 
“ This is the rit that I found growing along the entire southern coast 
of Florida, on my recent survey, from Cape Canaveral on the east side, 
around to Charlotte CANA on the west or Gulf coast, and including 
many of the Keys. 
“ The most interesting tract visited along this portion of the coast was 
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and spined varieties, many of the plants having shot up their “ poles ” 
or flower stalks, which were covered with blossoms and young plants. 
At Juno, about 10 miles farther south, at the head of Lake 
Worth, I found another fine nursery of perhaps 100,000 plants, the 
property of Mr. A. M. Fields, who is quite peres on the subject. 
aces near Cutter, I found end on the Perrine grant, though 
Mr. Addison informed me Dat the plants were chiefly growing on 
his own section. He estimates the number of old plants at about 
15,000, growing without colind and states that these have descended 
from the comparatively few plants which were on the place 25 years 
ago when he first occupied the land. 
“The original planting, he re was done by Mr. Charles Howe 
ho was associated with Dr. Perri He has both the spined and the 
smooth-leaved varieties, but ine’ ‘the interesting statement that the 
latter “spreads” much faster than the former. As a matter of fact I 
found plants of the spined form, at this place sche y few and far 
between. * * * From this point I sailed southward, but found 
nothing of particular intarbat until Upper Metecombe Key was reached 
