726 Florida. [December, 
Second. — Bear in mind that oranges are coming under the 
law of other fruits, and will be sold as varieties. 
Third. — You may reasonably infer that if the environment 
in Florida has improved the Seville, it may improve other 
and choicer varieties. Experiments are confirmatory. The 
best oranges grown in Europe are the Jaffa, the Malta oval, 
the Majorca, and the Mediterranean sweet. Each of these 
varieties, when grown in Florida, has improved in flavour or 
other qualities. The Jaffa, as grown in Jaffa, does not keep. 
It deteriorates before it reaches London. Grown in Florida 
it can be taken in the best condition to the northern markets 
or to London. 
Fourth.—In the light of these fadts you will select for 
your grove the best sports from the Florida, as the Magnum- 
bonum and Homasasa, a few Mandarines, and the best 
varieties from Europe. Seledl your trees carefully, fertilise 
judiciously, cultivate every spring and summer month, and 
in five years you will have an income. When your trees 
are in full bearing you will have from 500 to 1000 dollars an 
acre. 
If you have located well to the south, cultivate the lemon. 
Villa Franca is the best variety. Pineapples may be grown 
as profitably as either oranges or lemons. 
Do not heed the cry of over-produdtion. In 1850 the 
value of fruits grown in the United States was 7,723,600 
dollars ; in 1880 the value was 50,873,150 dollars. In these 
figures we make no account of what was consumed by the 
grower. Our population within thirty years has increased 
threefold; the consumption of fruit has increased seven- 
fold. 
It is a great misfortune that the Spaniards who dropped 
the seeds of their orange did not drop a few seeds of their 
Cuba grass ( Panicum jumentorum), or the Sorgum grass 
(S or gum halapense). “ Man cannot live on bread alone,” 
neither on oranges. Flocks must give him of their milk 
and feed him of their flesh ; herds must have pasturage. 
The crying need of Florida is grass ; her native grasses, 
Chloris floridana and glauca , Panicum fuscum and striatum , 
and a few species of Paspulum , — all known under the gene- 
ral name of Wire-grass, — are of little worth. Both Cuba 
grass and Johnson grass, if generally introduced, would give 
the Floridians good milk and palatable beef. 
Health they have, and a climate superior to any other in 
the western world. Florida is on the border of the torrid 
zone ; she lies within lines of latitude which would give her 
rank as one of the hottest portions of the globe ; but she is 
