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ORANGE CULTURE, 



So, now we have seen what one poor ignorant soldier did, in 

 a careless hap-hazard way ; he might have done much more, had 

 he known all that we know now-a-days. 



John Eaton died, but his trees lived on, and prospered, and 

 their fame at last reached the ears of a relative of his, then liv- 

 ing in Canada, and he came to Florida to try to claim the estate, 

 but we believe he failed. 



The story he told of the events that led him here may well 

 seem to " point a moral, and adorn a tale " in the wonderful 

 contrast between the work of the pioneer of the North, and him 

 of Florid a. 



Ten years before Eaton settled in Florida, the fither of the 

 gentleman alluded to settled in the wilds of Canada. 



For thirty years he toiled, and endured hardships and pri- 

 vations, and by that time had cleared and brought under cultiva- 

 tion one hundred acres of land. 



But all the time he was working, the climate was working 

 too; it killed three of his children with consumptiou, killed his 

 wife by a combination of diseases brought on by working in the 

 snoAV and mud, and finally killed him also, with inflammatory 

 rheumatism. 



The one son who was left, rented the farm, won by thirty 

 years of toil, for the paltry sum of one hundred and fifty dollars 

 a year, aud fled to our genial State to save his life, and reflect 

 at leisure over the vast contrast between the results of the thirty 

 years of toil on his father's part, and the twenty years of ease, of 

 his cousin, John Eaton. 



It was all in the difference of location, one settled in a cold 

 inclement country, the other in a mild, genial clime, one of nature's 

 garden spots. 



Of course, it is easy to go North, to any of our old settled 

 States, and point out fine fertile farms, worth many thousand dol- 

 lars, places that have been carved out of the wilderness, by the 

 work of one generation. 



But then, what if the same amount of time, money and in- 

 telligence, had been spent in Florida ? 



Why the difference would have been as startling as that be- 



