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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
(Anona reticulata), Sugar-apple (Anona 
squamosa), Papaw (Carica papaya), 
Amatungula (Carissa arduina), White 
Sapota (Casimiroa edulis), Shakewood 
tree (Cecropia palmata), O'taheite goose¬ 
berry (Cica disticha), Sea Grape (Coc- 
coloba uvifera), Rose-apple (Eugenia 
jambos), Surinam cherry (Eugenia Mi- 
cbeli), Mammee-apple (Mammea 
Americana), Ginep, or Spanish Lime 
(Melicocca bijuga), Ceriman (Monstera 
deliciosa), Granadilla (Passiflora of 
sorts), Otaheite apple (Spondias dulcis), 
Hog-plum (Spondias purpurea), Tama¬ 
rind (Tamarindus Indica), Limeberry 
(Tripbasia trifoliata) etc., all of whicn 
may be grown with more or less profit in 
South Florida. 
An abundance of fruit in our diet is 
a necessity and owners of land no matter 
how small its area, should devote a little 
time and attention to this important mat¬ 
ter ; it would pay in both good health and 
money. Only lack of energy prevents 
any landowner in South Florida from 
enjoying a great variety of luscious fruits 
every day in the year. 
By R. D. Hoyt. 
A good many years ago someone 
stretched a line across our state and called 
it the frost line. We did not know its 
exact location but it was supposed to 
be somewhere about the 28th degree. 
South of this line we could and did, grow 
all kinds of tropical fruits galore. We 
had guava trees, good big ones that one 
could climb about in and while the sum¬ 
mer was guava season there was scarcely 
a day in the year that we couldn’t have 
a guava pie a foot thick if we wanted 
it. We didn’t have to plant guavas, they 
just came up spontaneously in fence 
corners and along the road and during 
the summer the razor backs waxed fat; it 
the fruit did not fall fast enough an old 
sow would get up on her hind legs and 
grabbing one of the lower limbs with her 
teeth shake vigorously, ^generally with 
gratifying results to the accompanying 
family. We had alligator pear trees 40 
feet high that produced big thick-meated 
fruits that sometimes reached two pounds 
in weight, have heard them drop at night 
with a mushy kind of thud which 
meant the breakfast salad was already 
prepared with the addition of a little salt. 
We had other tropical fruits too. Man¬ 
goes, Tamarinds Rose and Sugar Ap¬ 
ples, and others of less note but we ap¬ 
preciated them all and were foolish 
enough to think we would always have 
them or most anything else we wanted 
but one night in December, 1895, some¬ 
thing happened to the frost line, possibly 
a stray mule got tangled up in it, at all 
events it was broken as many of us re¬ 
member and regret, and for fourteen 
years we have been trying to pick up the 
loose ends and run in a splice, so far 
meeting with no success. 
The guava is very persistent and may 
be killed to the ground year after year 
and still keep coming and if fortunate to 
escape one winter it will produce a few 
fruit the following summer, but our once 
big trees are now but stunted bushes that 
