202 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
erally needed. There is plenty of land that could be utilized for this 
crop. 
There is a considerable production of tomatoes in the area. The 
tomatoes grown at Coleman, in the Warm Spring hammock, find 
favor on the market. The fruit is heavy and firm and is said to bring 
fully 50 cents a crate more than the average market price. The 
Globe variety is grown exclusively, having been found more resist¬ 
ant to diseases than other varieties, as well as making good yields. 
The Stone tomato used to be grown, but not being as resistant to 
disease, poor results were often obtained. The same grade of fertil¬ 
izer is used for tomatoes as for cabbage, about 1.000 pounds per 
acre being applied, although, as stated before, this crop needs more 
potash than does cabbage. About- 200 to 300 crates to the acre are 
considered a good yield. 
Snap beans are an important crop and are grown in large acre¬ 
ages. They grow well on the Gainesville types of soil, on the better 
phases of the Norfolk, and on the sandy types of the Fellowship 
series on the high hammocks. 
Some eggplants and peppers are grown, but these are not impor¬ 
tant crops in the area surveyed. 
Before the freeze of 1894-95 the area surveyed was within the 
citrus-fruit belt of the State. There were groves on every place, 
and many put their dependence solely upon the products. Along 
the Withlacoochee River there was considerable interest in orange 
culture, and there were many large groves. These were all killed 
and practically all abandoned, the people even moving out. Citrus- 
fruit growers then moved farther south, but a few large growers 
have reestablished their groves. Citrus-fruit growing is now con¬ 
fined to' some important groves around Lake Panasoffkee and to a 
low hammock southwest of Wildwood. This hammock is in one 
grove of over 500 acres, which is one of the largest in the United 
States. The freeze of February, 1899, did considerable damage. 
The trees are young and small and have not yet reached their full 
bearing capacity, but are just beginning to< yield some profit. The 
low hammocks surrounded by swamps are preferred, the swamps 
and the large trees left standing in the groves being depended upon 
for protection. The marl hammocks are most desired, and on these 
fertilizers are not used. On these low situations the trees are 
planted on mounds, so that they will be out of the water during wet 
periods. There is also less trouble from insect pests in these lo- 
