22 4 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
bers and cantaloupes, particularly the latter, do well on this soil, and 
watermelons are grown to some extent on the deeper and more 
sandy areas. Fertilizers in large quantities are required for all 
these crops, but their application is repaid in the size and quality of 
the yields. All of the type should be cleared and cultivated, and 
with a system including general farming and truck growing, thus 
affording a broad crop rotation, the farmers should be successful. 
This soil, for the most part, at least, would be greatly benefited by 
the use of organic manures. All the barnyard m'anure possible should 
be applied and this should be supplemented by plowing under green 
crops. Beggarweed, which grows well upon this soil, is especially 
desirable for this purpose. 
The vegetative growth on the Gainesville sandy loam varies. The 
hammock growth is of mixed character, including both hardwood 
and pine, the former consisting of live oak, red oak, hickory, mag¬ 
nolia, sweet gum, cabbage palmetto, and other species. The pine 
growth is scattering, the longleaf pine growing large. There is also 
shortleaf pine in some areas. 
The value of this land ranges from $25 to $75 an acre, depending 
upon location. The greater part is located well in reference to rail¬ 
road facilities. 
Gainesville sandy loam, pine-zooods phase .—The pine-woods 
phase of the Gainesville sandy loam resembles that of the Gainesville 
fine sandy loam, except in texture. It consists of a gray or yellow¬ 
ish-gray sand, changing in places to yellowish or snuff-colored to 
brownish-yellow medium sand, averaging between 15 and 24 inches 
in depth, and resting upon a brownish-yellow clay, varying from 
sandy to stiff and plastic. There also occur in this clay soil, es¬ 
pecially where near the rock, some rotten limestone fragments of 
gray to yellowish-gray color, giving the clay a speckled or mottled 
appearance. Flinty outcrops of the limestone formation are also to 
be seen, and occasionally some loose, irregular blocks of limestone. 
This phase has a more nearly level topography than the typical soil 
and supports a rather close growth of longleaf pine, which reaches a 
good size. Areas of the pine-woods phase occur near Coleman, in 
Sumter County. 
