iv AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
October, 1909 
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A FLORIDA FRUIT FARM 
By E. P. Powell 
ENTRAL FLORIDA is a strip of land 
running up through the middle of the 
State; not more than forty miles wide, 
probably one hundred miles long. It takes in 
no large cities, and the vegetation is not as 
unique as that along the coast. In fact, you 
will find a good portion of the forest is pine 
and oak, so that a Northerner feels quite at 
home. ‘The soil is sandy but capable of being 
made very rich. “The pine trees in places stand 
eighty to one hundred feet high, and form 
most beautiful parks. ‘This is especially true 
around the small lakes, which abound through 
nearly the whole strip. Lake County is well 
named, because you can not go five miles with- 
out seeing twice that number of lakes, besides 
a lot of lakelets or ponds. It is here that 
Northerners should find their home if possible. 
The land rolls so that you may call it hilly, 
and in some places it is quite steep. The hol- 
lows hold the lakes, which are without outlet, 
and fill up according to the continuance of rain 
during the summer season. Generally there 
are showers enough during the winter, but for 
the last two years there has been almost con- 
tinuous lack of rain. 
Truck gardening is carried on mainly in the 
level, flat and moist coast counties, but in this 
middle and hilly region is the place for a good 
fruit garden, and for those vegetables which 
make home life comfortable. You can grow 
the Northern potato as well as the sweet po- 
tato, only it will not keep long after ripening. 
Carrots and beets and cabbages, with parsley 
and spinach, we put in in October or No- 
vember and use in January. The fruit garden 
is unique in this, that you can have side by side 
apples, pears, plums, cherries, and the semi- 
tropical loquats and oranges. We do not 
undertake to grow pineapples, mangos and sim- 
ilar fruits. A man who has ten acres in this 
region does not do well to put it all to oranges 
and grapefruit, although he is tempted to do 
so. ‘There is something bewitching about this 
orange growing. I suppose it is the beauty of 
the orchard and the fruit. There is nothing 
more beautiful in the world than an orange 
orchard, with the one exception of an apple 
orchard. It is a marvel in blossom, sending its 
fragrance all over the neighborhood, and win- 
ning millions of bees; who are said to get ab- 
solutely intoxicated, and to make less honey 
than they do from weeds. In full bearing the 
limbs bend down to the ground with their 
golden balls—and I must confess that it is an 
enchanted garden, and there is no wonder that 
it bewitches a visitor to have something like it. 
This whole section is filling up with Northern- 
ers, and not a few of them buy up groves at 
sight. There is lots of money in it, provided 
we do not have another freeze like that of 
1895. We shall surely have light frosts every 
winter, but these do little harm. 
In January and February we have our lo- 
quats as well as oranges, and although this 
crop is not quite sure, it is rare that we miss a 
plenty for home use. It is too delicate for 
shipment. ‘The loquat tree is evergreen, but 
the leaves look very much like rather rough 
cherry leaves. “The fruit is one and a ‘half 
inches in diameter and hangs in large clusters. 
The earlier clusters rarely form fruit, but in 
January we begin to get perfected clusters. 
These are still forming until May. ‘The shape 
of the fruit is like a pear, but the flavor is 
much more like that of a cherry. I have pro- 
cured a variety from California which is much 
larger and which bears when the tree is but 
three or four feet high. There is a good chance 
of improving all these tropical fruits by cross- 
breeding and by selection. New and choice 
’ oranges are every year coming before the pub- 
