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his father’s family. Here he planted an 
assortment of fruits which grew with va¬ 
rying degrees of success. His peaches 
bore a pleasing crop, but when the ex¬ 
press bills were paid, he would have been 
better off with a complete failure. He 
had a promising grove of oranges begin¬ 
ning to bear when the great freeze of 
1894-1895 killed it to the ground. He 
immediately ordered scions from Cali¬ 
fornia, sawed off the trees at the ground, 
and inserted grafts into the stumps, 
which grew nicely, and were, beginning 
to bear when the freeze of 1899 came, 
and he found himself penniless. 
The years 1901 to 1903 were spent at 
Cutler, Dade county, where he accumu¬ 
lated two thousand dollars raising truck. 
Then he and an older brother, George 
Pugsley, took a one-horse, camping outfit 
and started on a search for a good loca¬ 
tion for an orange grove, driving from 
Punta Gorda north. They finally chose 
Winter Haven, where they planted forty 
acres to oranges and grapefruit. This 
grove, was coming into bearing when he 
engaged to manage the packing house of 
the Florida Citrus Exchange at Winter 
Haven. Failing health, however, com¬ 
pelled him to withdraw from hard work. 
The grove was sold, and he purchased a 
small tract near town. 
During the last two years of his life 
he was engaged in experimenting with 
the avocado, planting the best and hardi¬ 
est of the Guatemalan type. He was 
meeting with encouraging success when 
he was called, on October 15th, 1919. 
In his death the State of Florida has suf¬ 
fered a distinct loss, for had he lived he 
would have settled the adaptability of the 
avocado to the latitude and vicinity of 
Winter Haven. He is survived by his 
brothers, Marcellus and George, and his 
sister, Frances E. Pugsley. 
DAVID H. SCOTT 
Mr. David H. Scott was born in On¬ 
tario, Canada, in 1868. He moved to 
Virginia with his parents in 1878. Came 
to Florida to engage in the fruit growing 
and shipping industry in 1893. He was 
a graduate of Richmond College. At 
the time of his death, which occurred July 
12, 1919, he owned 80 acres of bearing 
grove and ran a packing house in Arca¬ 
dia. He leaves a wife, a daughter and 
a son. 
ED. SCOTT 
Mr. Ed. Scott was born in July, 1866, 
and died at home, December 11, 1920. 
He was very active in promoting good 
roads and was a member 6f the State 
Road Department at the time of its or¬ 
ganization. At the time of his death he 
owned about twelve acres of orange 
grove and his principal holding was the 
Scott Telephone System of Arcadia. He 
is survived by a wife and six daughters. 
He was a brother of David H. Scott. 
