December, 1910 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



209 



orchards by the score which within a few brief 

 years will be netting their owners a minimum of 

 from $15 to $25 per tree and there are twenty- 

 seven trees planted to the acre. 

 There is but one necessary transaction to 



A Ten Acre Paper-shell Pecan Orchard at HiUiard 



with White Potatoes Planted Between Rows. Land 



Cleared and Planted in Thirty Days 



pecan orchards after they have acquired their 

 growth and that is the harvesting. The trees 

 are hardy, are almost indestructible in this 

 climate and keep a uniform^ yield that is subject 

 to none of the failures like other crops and pro- 

 ducts. The colony management plants pecan 

 orchards for those of its colonists who desire 

 or request it to do this. 



While the pecan groves are maturing various 

 vegetable crops are planted, together with ground 

 fruits, between the trees, so that one is enabled 

 in this manner to have an income each and every 

 year during the early life of the pecan tree. 

 A single crop will often pay for the entire pecan 

 orchard. You must know that at this great 

 colony one may grow three crops a year. There 

 is no one crop man in all Florida. 



Now,when the whole North is settling down to 

 six months of ice, idleness, large coal and plumb- 

 er bills, and the northern farmer is doing nothing 

 but chop wood and mend fences, the Florida 

 farmer is tilling his fields, planting his third 

 crops, which he will send to market in mid- 

 winter and sell for prices that would set a 

 northern farmer by the ears with envy. This 

 is the beauty of Florida. You buy the land and 

 you pay your money for it according to the 

 number of acres you contract for, the climate, 

 the sunshine, the ability to walk around every 

 day in your shirt sleeves, these things belong 

 to the land and come to you tree from nature. 

 Professor Knapp of the Department of Agri- 

 culture once said, in speaking at a banquet 

 in Jacksonville, "Florida from an agricultural 

 standpoint may be reckoned in this wise with 

 respect to the values of her lands: Ten per 

 cent soil, 80 per cent, climate and 10 per cent, 

 man; and the more man you put into the 

 question the greater will be the result." This 

 is all true. 



Here at the colony at Hilliard is to be found 

 the truth of this trite saying. The wonderful 

 garden truck and fruit yields simply astound 

 one with the limitless qualities of this soil. 

 Just think of a spot that has all the advantages 

 of a northern community, nestling close by the 

 sea where the salt air makes everything, both 

 man and growing things, feel the activity of the 

 sea with its boundless health and its invigorating 

 winds. Because of the proximity of the At- 

 lantic ocean this colony enjoys the coolest of 

 nights in the heated days of summer, sunstrokes 

 are a thing unknown and the death rate is less 

 than seven in 1,000. The winds from the Gulf 

 of Mexico and the Atlantic ocean maintain a 



steady current of air moving first from the east 

 and then from the west, for the peninsula of 

 Florida is in its widest point but 140 miles in 

 extent. During the winter these same influences 

 forbid the chill winds of the North to assail this 

 spot to any extent, and the warmth of the Gulf 

 Stream tempers these sea winds so that they 

 bring the breath of June during the month of 

 January. 



The educational advantages for the man of 

 family are excellent here. There are fine schools 

 where the young idea is taught after the most 

 modern fashion, and a fine two-story brick 

 school for the colony children is in course of 

 erection now. 



At Hilliard the colony has established a first- 

 class hotel, in charge of a northern hotel man, 

 and here for a moderate sum one can enjoy the 

 best of hotel accommodations without the fear 

 that he may be left to his own resources, as is 

 the case in the other new settlements in Florida. 



Every movement that tends to bring this 

 colony to its best point of efficiency in the 

 nature of cooperation between the colony man- 

 agement and the colonists is practiced at this 

 colony. This spot is almost Utopian in this 

 regard, for although the people are complex 

 in their nationality and hail from all points of 

 our land, they are all wrapped up in the single 

 idea of making the North Florida Fruit and 

 Truck Farm Colony the biggest winner and the 

 most successful garden spot on the North Ameri- 

 can continent. If you like out of door recrea- 

 tion, hunting, fishing, boating and bathing, 

 etc., I can recommended no surer place to have 

 your fancies gratified than here. The beautiful 

 St. Mary's River, truly a stream of dreams whose 

 shores are so fascinating that one imagines the 

 gods must have draped and festooned them 



Gathering Potatoes May 1st at HUUard. Planted in 

 January 



after some celestial plan of landscaping, affords 

 all the opportunity for boating and fishing, 

 picnicking and bathing one could wish for, while 

 charming beaches on the Atlantic ocean can 

 be reached in less than an hour's ride from 

 Hilliard. 



It is no wonder that this colony has spfung 

 into such universal esteem all over this country, 

 and why there has been sold more land here 

 in a few years than any other similar colony 

 has ever accomplished before. 



In the first place, the men who compose the 

 colony administration force are men of sub- 

 stantial worth. You can put your finger on 

 their records and they are clean. In the next 

 place, the titles to this land are all guaranteed 

 by the Chicago Title and Trust Company, a 

 ^7,000,000 corporation, whose reputation for 

 this class of work is world-wide. 



More than the guarantee of title the colony 

 company guarantees to refund every dollar its 

 purchasers have paid within ninety days from 

 the date of their first payment if they visit the 

 colony and find it unsatisfactory to them or 

 their land other than has been represented to 

 them, and they agree also to pay additional 8 

 per cent, interest on such refund payments. 



Thirdly, this land is sold at ^25 per acre upon 

 the plan of only ^i.oo per acre down and one 

 dollar per acre per month. At this price I 

 consider this land the very best investment 

 in Florida today even though one did not in- 

 tend to come down and cultivate it. This 

 value is a ridiculous one in the light of present 

 day developments in Florida. The colony has 

 now some 800 upon its breast and this fall 

 will see this number doubled. 



The demand for this land is wonderful and will 

 undoubtedly exhaust the supply within a few 

 weeks or months at the most. This land is 

 all uniform and exceedingly choice, so that al- 

 most every farm is the equal of its neighbor, 

 and in this respect I know of no other body 

 of land in the state to so compare with it. The 

 colony has prepared a piece of literature which 

 they have called "A Home in Town and a 

 Farm in the Country." I say now that this 

 great work, prepared at tremendous cost, em- 

 bracing more than 100 pages 8 by 9 inches and 

 filled from cover to cover with facts about 

 this colony and Florida, is the greatest piece 

 of Florida literature ever issued. It is worth 

 any man's time to read and no man who is 

 thinking of owning a piece of land should 

 neglect sending in the specially arranged distribu- 

 tion coupon below to secure a copy of this 

 book. 



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