October, 1909 
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lic, so are loquats and mangoes, and pine- 
apples. We shall get something very fine in 
all these lines, and something that will send 
out of cultivation all that we have at present. 
In March begins the mulberry, a fruit that we 
never think of eating in the North, but here 
we have sorts that are of special importance 
for eating out of hand and for cooking. ‘They 
are about as large as your initial finger, and 
are borne in immense quantities, on hand- 
some trees of about twenty feet in height. The 
varieties that do our fine work here are too 
tender for Northern climates, but we surely 
would not like to be robbed of our mulberries. 
Mocking-birds and cardinal birds fill the 
branches, and hens delight in the fallen ones. 
Before the robins go North I assure you they 
have filled themselves well with many a dinner 
of Hick’s and Stubb’s mulberries. ‘There are 
white varieties, but I have not yet found one 
of great importance. The razorback will ven- 
ture to tear his way through barbed wire to 
get at this fruit, but the razorback’s days are 
about numbered. There are too many North- 
erners here with shotguns and rifles. 
April winds up most of our orange picking, 
which began about the first of November. 
There are still half a dozen sorts that will 
hang on all summer, but they are not largely 
planted, partly because the growers like to get 
through with the job and go North for the 
summer, and partly because the market does 
not call for a very protracted supply. Peach 
trees are in blossom all winter, and there will 
be straggling peaches ripening in the latter 
part of February or March. ‘The crop really 
begins, however, to be ready for market the 
last of April, and runs through May and June. 
We have new varieties which will probably 
protract the season. “These same months give 
us plums and cherries.. I have heard it said by 
old fruit-growers that we can do nothing here 
with cherries or apples. I am surely growing 
very successfully several varieties of apples and 
some varieties of cherries. “That they will be 
profitable fruiters I am not so sure. King 
David is the best grower among my apple ex- 
periments, although Red Astrachan and some 
others are doing finely. Plums grow with 
astonishing rapidity and bear heavy crops. 
The curculio is here, and one must know how 
to fight it; unfortunately, the Southerner does 
not understand it. I am trying quinces with 
every possible encouragement, and we know 
that many of our best grapes will do almost as 
well here as in New York State. The Niagara 
is very popular, so also is Moore’s Early and 
Diamond. Of course, these Northern grapes 
ripen earlier here and become dead ripe and 
sweet. Sour grapes, like Ives, are really of 
fine quality in this section. I have planted 
several hundred of the crossbred varieties 
originated by Mr. Munson, of Denison, Tex., 
such as Headlight, Banner, and Wapanuka. 
Mr. Munson’s work is fully equal to that of 
Mr. Burbank, and he is the national authority 
on our native wild grapes. 
You can readily see from these notes that 
a Northerner can build a home here in Florida, 
and not only thoroughly enjoy himself, but 
take good care of his physical needs. The 
chief trouble he will have to compete with is 
the fact that an annual burning over of the 
State has destroyed the humus that nature has 
tried to provide, and has done it for so many 
years that the soil needs addition and renova- 
tion about equally. However, there is no 
spot in the United States where material is 
provided more lavishly for making soil than in 
Florida. The legumes are more abundant than 
purslane and pigweed in the North. Cow peas 
grow twenty feet in a season, and velvet bean 
sixty or seventy feet. Beggar-weed is another 
delicious fodder, as sweet as sugar beet. These 
Jegumes can be mowed two or three times, 
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