Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — From the Land of Flowers. [ARTICLE]

From the Land of Flowers.

Spuing Garden City, Fla., • May 17, 1884. Editor Republican: I will ask for space in your coining for a few lines in regard to this part oi: Florida! Spring Garden is situated twenty miles from tlie Atlantic coast, ten miles from the St. John’s river and five miles from Spring Garden Center. It is a beautiful place, a large sulphur spring near anti a nice winter resort, as people come from all parts to bathe and it is said to cure many diseases. The climate is semi-tropical. Range of thermometer; lowest 26 degrees, highest in the shade 103 degrees. The soil is sandy, with clay in many places. Water is soft but good. Timber is mostly all yellow pine, 80 to 100 feet high. The orange is the principle fruit raised here, but it pays to raise peaches, pears, persimmons, plums, figs, grapes, quinces, bananas, limes, pineapples, lemons &c. Its good paying business in early gardening, as some vegetables can be raised any month in the year. Strawberries commence bearing in January and are 1 ripening yet. Two crops of potatoes a year can b.e raided, either Sweet or Irish. We have good society as in the north. Churches and Sabbath schools with a large attendance. The Southern people are as kind and will do anything lor .you they cud. The springs find lakes are full of fish, they have nice times pic niciug, boating and fishing. We ,haV® beautiful flowers-. Some of the, house plants nortn grow wild here and bloom the year around. The corn is all eared out and has been laid by, and new potatoes are ready to dig, and many have been shipped already. Watermelons are getting ripe, there are two crops of them. Land runs from $lO up to as high as you can figure: Good board is from 87 to sls per week, $1.50 to $3.00 per day, but anyone can live cheaper here than | north, as they can raise most everything j they eat. No cases of yellow fever, | cholera, sunstroke or other like fatal (diseases have been known here, and all climatic conditions are most favorable to health and longevity. Many s« t tiers from the -north and north - went are coming in aud the orange belt will soou be thickly settled. I have.already taken op too much spare iu yonr piCpcr i so Twin'clous. I Y**iir* lltsp* Hlniiv.

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