PICTURESQUE SPOTS IN FLORIDA. 



some arrangement to protect them from severe weather 

 in early spring, as by this means the flowers could be 

 obtained as early as April without artificial heat. Other 

 kinds might be grown in tubs, but in tubs the night- 

 blooming kinds, being naturally large-growing varieties, 

 would be cramped for room, and would give much 

 smaller leaves and flowers than where planted out. 

 Planted out, he has had some flowers measuring nearly a 

 foot across. In a tank with hot-water pipes run through 



it, and glass protection, the time of flowering is pro- 

 longed. A tank two feet in depth will be sufficient. 

 Japanese nelumbiums are very slow and shy to flower, 

 and spcciosiun was recommended as much the best 

 One does not wonder, while looking at a cool, pure, 

 waxen-white water-lily, at the old stories and beliefs 

 about the witchery of mermaids. The family name of 

 nymphaea must have rightfully descended to water-lilies 

 from these sprites of the old fables. 



PICTURESQUE SPOTS IN FLORIDA. 



IPA BAY AND VICINITY. 



IT IS not to be wondered at that Tampa Bay has long 

 been the admiration of visitors, even when means of 

 access were uncomfortable and inadequate. An arm 

 of the great gulf of Mexico, its pellucid waters, always of 

 genial warmth, reveal myriads of finny denizens to the 



A OARDENE 



eye, and wash shores of peculiar attractiveness to the 

 traveler from the colder north. The beautiful islets or 

 "keys" here and there, covered with rich tropical 

 growths, afford superb camping places, while the broad, 

 estuary-like rivers leading from the main bay are sailing 

 and fishing grounds hard 

 to match elsewhere. 



The modern traveler 

 steps into a Pullman car 

 in Jersey City, and need 

 not leave it until he is a 

 mile into Tampa Bay, for 

 the terminus at Port Tampa 

 is a pretty station built on 

 piles in the deep water re- 

 quired to float the sea-going 

 steamers, which are ready 

 to take one right from the 

 car-step to Cuba. 



A few of the beauty spots 

 of this picturesque region 

 are lightly touched by pen 

 and camera in the follow- 

 ing paragraphs. 



A gardener's HOiME. 



Not far from the large 

 and magnificent Tampa 

 Bay hotel, at Tampa, Flor- 

 ida, is the residence of 

 Charles J. A. Knowles, an 

 English gardener. The 

 contrast between the two 

 places is great, but every 

 lover of the beautiful will 

 find as much to admire in 

 the simple, inexpensive and 

 natural adornments of Mr. 

 Knowles' home as in the 

 expensive and costly gran- 

 deur of the hotel grounds. 

 This gardener's home, a 

 view from which is shown 

 in our picture, is bordered 

 on one side by a little bay- 

 ou, with banks abounding 



