{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I o\\nXO^^.\\n.HO,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2939", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "[n the\\nLand of Plowers\\nBy WALTER N. PIKE.\\nKnow ye the land of the Cedar and Vine,\\nWhose scented flowers blossom and beams enshrine\\nWhere the light wings of Zephyr, oppressed with perfume,\\nWax faint o er the gardens of beautiful bloom?", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "OONTENTS.\\nHo FOR- THF fNNY SOUTH, 3\\nThe Gardens and Flowers of Jacksonville, 3\\nThe Palms or Palmettoes of Florida, 7\\nA Trip up the St. John s River, 11\\nWonderful Plant Growths in Florida, 15\\nSilver Spring and its Romantic Legend, .19\\nOn the Wondrous Ocklawaha, 23\\nWay Down on the Indian River, .27\\nOranges and Other Citrus Fruits, 31\\nSt. Augustine and the Gardens of the Ponce de Leon, 35\\nThe Garden and Flowers of the Tampa Bay Hotel, 39\\nWhere May and December are Wed, .43\\nLiving and Locating in Florida, 47\\nMiscellanies, 51-64", "height": "2939", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "^^1^.,^^.^\\nr\\n^M^.ofPyJjL^", "height": "2939", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "IN THE\\nLAND ^FLOWERS\\nA SERIES OF REVISED SKETCHES\\nWHICH FIRST APPEARED IN\\nTHE MAYFLOWER.\\nWALTER N. PIKE\\n11\\nPUBLISHED BY\\nPIKE ELLSWORTEfr ^^^^f\\nJESSAMINE, FLA.\\nPRICE lO CENTS.\\nCopyright, 1895, by Walter N. Pike.", "height": "2911", "width": "2086", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Ho for the Sunny South I\\nAway from stern Wlnter^s dommions,\\nHis cold, chilling mantle of snow;\\nThe flowers struck dead by his visage.\\nHis winds chanting dirges of woe.\\nThen away to the far sunny Southland,\\nTo traverse those regions so fair.\\nWhere the Summer ne er ceaseth to linger,\\nAnd the Orange bloom perfumes the air.\\nWhere the glittering Rose in December\\nSpreads its dazzling hues to the light.\\nAnd the Lily, so pure and so fragrant.\\nDisplays its fair blossoms so bright.\\nWhere the Pine, fidl of years and of honors\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nA huge, stately pillar\u00e2\u0080\u0094 dotli rise\\nIts roots firmly fixed in their places,\\nIts top reared aloft in the skies.\\nWhere the Liveoak, so tall and so spreading,\\nDispenses its generous shade;\\nAnd ivaveth the Cabbage Palmetto,\\nIn tropical grandeur arrayed.\\nWhere the dense, tangled growth of the forest\\nA fabric fantastical weaves.\\nAnd twinkle the radiant sunbeams\\nThrough quivering branches and leaves.\\nThere, safe from the Ice King s rude fetters.\\nWith hearts full of lightness and glee.\\nWe will fill up our life s happy measure\\nAnd learn to be joyous and free.\\nJoshua Morris.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nThe Gardens and Flowers of Jacksonville.\\nOh! Florida, romantic land.\\nEnraptured I thy praises sing,\\nFor nature smiles on every hand.\\nAnd Winter is as fair as Spring.\\nMrs. Jennie S. PerMns.\\nO State in all this vast Union possesses a more romantic,\\ninteresting and diversified history than Florida. From\\nits discovery, early in the sixteenth century, by Juan\\nPonce de Leon, a romantic soldier noble of Spain, in\\nhis vain search for the chimerical Fountain of Youth, its his-\\ntory has been a continuous chapter of romantic occurrences, in\\nwhich mystery and tragedy play not the least important parts.\\nHowever, it is not my allotted task to trace its fascinating history,\\nbut to describe some of its most beautiful natural features, famous\\ngardens and rare flora, both native and introduced, found within its\\n^borders, for the benefit of my readers.\\nThe pleasing and very appropriate appellations of The Land\\nof Flowers and The Italy of America have been applied to the\\nState, and long since became synonymous with its name. Florida\\nitself .is euphonious, and even to those having no idea of its deriva-\\ntion it possesses a flowery suggestiveness, calling up visions of\\ndreamy, tropical luxuriance, golden sunshine, sparkling, limpid\\nwaters, and singing birds. Ponce de Leon named the land Florida\\nafter the day of its discovery, which was Fascua Florida, or\\nFlower Sunday.\\nThe following chapters will deal wholly with the peninsular\\nportion of the State, commonly termed -outh Florida, but for two\\nreasons I shall devote this one to Jacksonville and vicinity first,\\non account of the interesting and beautiful flora existing there, and", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "secondly, because it is the gateway to the State, through which pass\\nnine-tenths of the people who enter its borders, and, naturally,\\nthese people are interested to know what is to be seen in this line at\\ntheir first stop in this flowery land.\\nAnyone expecting to find a city of beautiful gardens and well-\\nkept yards will, with a few notable exceptions, be disappointed in\\nJacksonville, and a casual observer n\\\\ight even aver that there are\\nno flowers or plants there worthy of note; but let your true flower\\nlover wander leisurely up and down the residence streets of the\\ncity, as I have often done, and many beautiful and wonderful plant-\\ngrowths will be discovered that are a delight to a true lover of\\nnature and a true indication of what might be if kindly hands\\nwere to plant, weed and cultivate.\\nThe streets are mostly well shaded, principally by Water Oaks\\nand Live Oaks, with here and there a specimen of that royal denizen\\nof Southern forests, the Magnolia grandiflora, its wealth of burn-\\nished green foliage contrasting finely with its smooth, ash-gray\\ntrunk, and during its flowering season perfuming the surrounding\\natmosphere with its intoxicating sweetness. Specimens of the appro-\\npriately named Umbrella China tree (Melia Azcdarach umhracuH-\\nformls) are plentiful, holding their marvelously symmetrical heads\\npoised on polished, greenish-brown, columnar trunks. If in the\\nWinter only the bare branches, standing erect like the braces of an\\numbrella frame, give evidence of its characteristic shape, for it is\\ndeciduous; but in Summer it presents a rounded head of deepest\\ngreen foliage through which the sun cannot cast a solitary ray, and\\nso perfect in form that it is difficult to believe it has not been\\nclipped. In several yards may be seen specimens of the Cabbage\\nPalmetto (Sabal Palmetto) of the South, a majestic fan-leaf Palm\\nwhich has been likened to a huge feather-duster stood on end.\\nAnother plant which is equally distinct in appearance is the Span-\\nish Dagger or Bayonet {Yucca aloi/oHa,) growing singly or in\\nclumps on the lawns or in the fence corners, and bearing no resem-\\nblance to any growth of Northern climes. Its straight, simple or\\nforked trunk is densely clothed with a mass of dark green, brist-\\nling, dagger-like leaves which suggest the word tropical more than\\nany other. But if anything is needed to finish the impression, grow-\\ning close by is a Century Plant (Agave,) the mammoth proportions", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "of which are at once the envy and despair of tne Northern cultiva-\\ntor, whose specimen of the same species is growing in a six-inch pot\\nor, perhaps, has arrived to the dignity of a keg. He sees before him\\na plant which five or six years ago was a tiny offset stuck out in the\\nsand aud left to shift for itself, now a gigantic specimen which\\nwould require a tub made from a hogshead to hold it. Its ponder-\\nous leaves, five or six inches in width and weighing several pounds\\napiece, radiate in all directions in fantastic curves, and the whole\\nplant standing as high as a person.\\nOccasionally a house is passed draped from basement to eaves\\nby a curtain of the evergreen Blgnonla picta, which must present\\na picture of rare loveliness when studded with its large tubular\\nmauve or violet flowers. I very distinctly remember in one yard a\\nlarge Live Oak, up the body of which had climbed thrifty vines of\\nEnglish Ivy, and then hung in long, pendant streamers from the\\nlimbs, oscillating back and forth in every passing breeze. On a porch\\nI noticed, trained up and around it, a plant of Solanum Jasminoides\\ngrandiflora, the vine and its branches aggregating many yards in\\nlength. Here and there a Date Palm (Phoenix dactyllfera) holds\\nerect its pinnate, bluish leaves in a majestic manner, and specimens\\nof the extremely hardy Sago Palm or Japanese Fern Palm (Cycas\\nrevoluta) abound, some of them with stout stems surmounted by\\nnoble crowns of scores of leaves\u00e2\u0080\u0094 specimens which at the North\\nwould command from $50 to $100 each. Of its near congener, the\\nCoontie (Zamia integrifoUa,) a native of South Florida, at least one\\nexceptionally fine specimen exists in the city. It must be an old,\\nlarge and long-established root, for it supports an oval mound of\\nfoliage as large as a good-sized tub, and as an ornamental ranks\\nsecond only to the Cycas.\\nA very popular plant with the residents, it would seem, is the\\nSt. John s Lily {Crinum pedujiculatum,) for it is growing in a large\\nmajority of the yards where an attempt is made to cultivate any-\\nthing. This gigantic member of the Amaryllis family attains a\\nheight of five or six feet, with a corresponding breadth of magnifi-\\ncent foliage. It is almost constantly in bloom, except when cut\\ndown by untimely frosts, sending up stout scapes bearing immense\\numbels of from twenty to thirty, or more, large and very fragrant\\npure white flowers having purple anthers. The bulbs are large", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "and stump-like, from fifteen to twenty inches in circumference at\\nthe neck, and often extend into the ground to a depth of from one\\nand one half to two feet. When the bulb has attained a certain size\\nit divides into two, these in turn and time also dividing, thus form-\\ning clumps of half a dozen or more individual bulbs, supporting an\\nimmense spread of foliage, among which there is almost always at\\nleast one head of flowers.\\nSeveral large clumps of these Lilies grace the little square\\nmagniloquently termed the City Park. Here, too, are dense clumps\\nof a species of Bamboo probably Bamhusa Metake which pre-\\nsents a strange appearance to Northern eyes not accustomed to see-\\ning grass grow large enough for fishing rods. Palms, Oaks, Sour\\nOranges, Oleanders, Cedars and Century Plants form the principal\\ngrowth of this little park, which might be made into a spot of ex-\\nceptional beauty,\\nA very interesting place to visit is the one-time Sub-Tropical b^x-\\nposition buildings and grounds. Here, both inside and out, are\\ngrowing many rare and choice plants, silent but eloquent monu-\\nments to the revered memory of the lamented P. W. Reasoner, the\\nenthusiastic young horticulturist who had the interests of the State\\nso warmly at heart and labored so assiduously for its horticultural\\nadvancement. Among the objects of especial interest here are some\\nenormous specimens of the Century Plant, and a fine example of the\\nFish-Tail Palm (Caryota urens.)\\nMrs. Mitchell has a beautiful garden in the suburbs, containing\\nmany plants noted for their great beauty, rarity or unusual inter-\\nest. Among the latter class are some magnificent specimens of the\\ntrue Tea Plant (CamcZUa Thea,) which, with their rich evergreen\\nleaves and myriads of single white flowers with numerous yellow\\nstamens, are no less beautiful than interesting. In some Jackson-\\nville yards the Tea Plant is employed to form a beautiful ornamental\\nhedge, and in the height of the flowering season the intermingling\\nof white, gold and green must be exquisite.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER 11.\\nThe Palms or Palmettoes of Florida.\\nHE Palms are undoubtedly the most striking objects\\namong the exceptionally varied vegetable productions\\nof the State of Florida. They are highly ornamental as\\nwell, and a never failing source of attraction for North-\\nern eyes. Linnaeus called Palms the Princes of the Vegetable\\nKingdom, a designation which no one will venture to dispute, and\\nCharles Kingsley wrote of them as follows: For it is a joy forever,\\na sight never to be forgotten, to have once seen Palms breaking\\nthrough, and, as it were, defying the soft, rounded forms of the\\nbroad-leaved vegetation by the stern grace of their simple lines;\\nthe immovable pillar-stems looking the more immovable beneath\\nthe toss, and lash, and flicker of the long leaves, as they awake out\\nof their sunlit sleep, and rage impatiently for awhile before the\\nmountain gusts, and fall asleep again. Like a Greek statue in a\\nluxurious drawing room, sharp-cut, cold, virginal; shaming by the\\ngrandeur of mere form the voluptuousness of mere color, however\\nrich and harmonious; so stands the Palm in the forest to be wor-\\nshipped rather than to be loved.\\nThere are at least nine distinct species of Palms, representing\\nsix different genera, native of Florida; but of these, five are con-\\nfined to the extreme southern portion of the State. The other four\\nextend to the northern boundary, and beyond, but few tourists see\\nmore than two of these, the other two being confined to the swamps\\nand thick hardwood forests termed hammocks, to distinguish them\\nfrom the open Pine woods which occupy nearly all the rest of the\\nland.\\nThe most conspicuous and noteworthy of these four is the Cab-\\nbage Palm or Palmetto (Sabal Palmetto,) famous from well-known\\nhistorical associations, and for the imperishability of its wood", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "under water, being proof against even that scourge of Southern\\nwaters, the teredo. It possesses a subtle mysteriousness which is\\nboth awesome and irresistable, and the beholder is reminded more\\nforcibly by it than by any other arborescent vegetation, that he or\\nshe has left the region of ice and snow far behind and is fast enter-\\ning the realm tropical. As it rears aloft its rounded head it in-\\nstantly attracts and holds the attention from its total dissimilarity\\nto the vegetation by which it may be surrounded. It exceptionally,\\nwith great age, attains a height of eighty to ninety feet, the rough\\ngray trunk only eight or ten inches in diameter and shooting aloft\\nbare as a ship s mast except for the feather duster-like head of fan-\\nshaped leaves which crowns its apex. Until it reaches ten to twenty\\nfeet in height, the bases of the dead leaf stalks remain upon the\\ntrunk, forming a unique cheval-de-frise, adding greatly to its pic-\\nturesqueness. These leaf bases are ranged around the trunk with\\nperfect mathematical precision, and as the trunk swells in growth\\nthese sheathing bases are split up one half or two-thirds their\\nlength, which gives the tree the appearance of being surrounded by\\nan exceedingly curious and highly ornamental lattice-work. This\\nnatural trellis is often taken possession of by some aspiring vine\\nwhich soon mounts to the top of the Palm and weaves for it a\\nmantle of emerald ornamented with flowers of richest hues. Be-\\ntween these persistent leaf-bases and the trunk proper, there is a\\nthick layer of beautiful brown fibre, in which two species of Ferns\\nare often found growing high up above the ground. One of these\\nis Vittaria lineata, a most curious Fern, utterly unlike any north-\\nern species. The fronds are linear, from a few inches to two feet in\\nlength, pendulous, and the plant resembles a tuft of dark green\\ngrass hanging from the side of the tree. The other species is Poly-\\npodium aureum, a noble plant with large glaucous fronds. It has\\na stout root-stalk which runs about in the fibre, and it is not an\\nunusual sight to see the beautiful fronds depending in a circle\\nfrom beneath the crown of Palm leaves, twenty-five or thirty feet\\nabove the ground. Ophioglossmn palmatum, a tropical Fern with\\ncuriously forked, fleshy leaves, is rarely found growing in the\\ndecaying sheathing bases of the leaves of this Palm. As the tree\\nadvances in age its growth is slow, the leaf stalks and fibre rot and\\nfall off, leaving a slim, rough trunk strinkingly like a telegraph", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "pole. It derives its common name from the fact that the unde-\\nveloped leaf bud in the centre of the crown of the tree, is often\\ncooked and eaten, equaling in flavor the finest Cabbage; but the\\nlife of the tree is sacrificed for every bud taken.\\nThe Saw or Scrub Palmetto (Serenoa serrulata) is the most\\ncommon Palm in Florida. Often the Pine woods are carpeted with\\nit for miles in every direction, and its very numbers render the\\nscene monotonous. But an individual specimen, considered by\\nitself, is beautiful, and in Europe it is highly valued for pot culture.\\nThe leaves are circular in outline, fan-shaped and bright green.\\nThe slender leaf-stalks spiny-edged\u00e2\u0080\u0094 hence its common name of\\nSaw Palmetto\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the trunk creeping and rooting on the underside,\\nrendering it very difficult to remove when clearing the land. When\\ngrowing in shady hammocks the trunk often assumes an upright\\nposition, sometimes eight or ten feet high, and is then a very orna-\\nmental and striking object.\\nIn rich hammocks is found the beautiful Dwarf Palmetto {Sabal\\nAdansonii,) an extremely hardy Palm, resisting unharmed a tem-\\nperature as low as ten degrees Fahr. The short stem is entirely\\nunder ground, the dark, rich green fan shaped leaves are borne on\\nshort, smooth-edged stalks, and the graceful flower stalk rises\\nabove the leaves to a height of six or seven feet.\\nIn the same locations, and in wet swamps, the Blue Palmetto or\\nNeedle Palm {RhapldophyUum hystrix) abounds. It is an extremely\\nbeautiful species, and listed in European catalogues at very high\\nprices, owing to its comparative scarcity. The leaves are very beau-\\ntiful, shining green above and silvery gray below, deeply slit into\\nnarrow ribbons and borne on slender, graceful stems. Around the\\nbases of these stems bristle numerous slender, keenly-pointed\\nbrown spines about fifteen inches long, mingled with a quantity of\\nhairy fibres. These spines are undoubtedly a wise provision of nature\\nto preserve from harm the flower-bud, which resembles a large\\nsnowy white egg nestling among the fibres, and which but for this\\nprotection would probably be eaten by animals.\\nThe Royal Palm (Oreodoxa regla,^ the Glory of the Moun-\\ntains, and the Falma real of the Spanish West Indies, one of the\\ngrandest of pinnate-leaved Palms, is native in several localities of\\nextreme South Florida. Capt. Mayne Reid gives the following", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "graphic pen picture of this Palm: Close by the Cotton-tree stood\\nanother giant of the forest\u00e2\u0080\u0094 rivaling the former in height, but\\ndiffering from it as an arrow from its bow. Straight as a lance, it\\nrose to the height of an hundred feet. It was branchless as a col-\\numn of polished malachite or marble up to its high summit,\\nwhere its green, feather-like fronds, radiating outward, drooped\\ngracefully over, like a circlet of reflexed ostrich plumes. The noble\\nMountain Cabbage of Jamaica, the kingly Oreodoxa. Three noble\\nspecimens of this Palm once stood on Cape Sable and were visible\\neighteen miles out at sea. They were destroyed by the gale of\\n1872.\\nPerhaps the rarest Palm known to cultivation is Florida s re-\\ncently discovered PseudopJioenix Sargenti. It was discovered in\\nthe Summer of 1886, on Elliott s Key, by Prof. A. H. Curtiss and\\nProf. C. S. Sargent. As it was sufficiently distinct to constitute\\nboth a new species and a new genus, it was given the above name\\nby Prof. Wendland of Germany, the specific name being in honor\\nof Prof. Sargent. It is a half dwarf species, never exceeding\\ntwenty feet in height, is pinnate-leaved, and somewliat resembles\\nsome species of Phoenix. The leaf-stalks drop off as soon as the\\nleaves die, leaving a free, clean-looking trunk, the upper part\\nmarked with alternate rings of green and brown. It is known no-\\nwhere else in the world, and in but two small groves on the Keys\\n(islands)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 containing in all not over two hundred specimens.\\nSeveral were destroyed by land clearers who were ignorant of its\\nrarity.\\nThe genus Thrinax is represented by at least three beautiful\\nspecies, all confined to the coast or Keys of extreme South Florida,\\nfar below the lines of travel frequented by most tourists. The\\nPrickly Thatch {Thrinax parvijtora) is a most beautiful fan Palm,\\nwith slender, graceful stem and leaves, and attains a final height of\\nthirty feet. The Silver Thatch (T. argentca) is of final greater size\\nas respects stem and leaves, and the latter are silvery white on the\\nunder side. The third species is T. cxcelsa, with very large fan-\\nshaped leaves, four to five feet long, and about the same in diame-\\nter, light green above and hoary glaucous beneath.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nA Trip Up the St. John s River.\\nBy St. John s romantic river,\\nOrange, Palms and Live Oaks grow.\\nAnd cast down their fair reflections\\nIn the amber waves below\\nAnd the Moonflower weaves around them\\nHer green canopy of vines\\nThat are starred with snow-white flowers\\nWhen the summer moonlight shines.\\nTRIP to Florida, or a residence in this State, without\\na trip up or down that grand, sub-tropical river, the\\nSt. John s, is, to make use of an old and familiar com-\\nparison, like the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left\\nout. Nowhere in all tbis broad Union north, south, east or west\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094may a more delightful trip be taken, or one which will leave a\\nmore pleasant and indelible impression upon the memory. True,\\nthere are more awe-inspiring scenes and greater height, breadth\\nand depth in the views found in mountain regions; but the same\\nare duplicated in many and widely separated sections of our vast\\ndomain, while there is but one Florida, and nothing resembling the\\nSt. John s is found outside its borders.\\nOn the first day of May, 1562, Jean Ribaut crossed the St. John s\\nbar and named the stream within in honor of that day, La Riviere\\nde Mai. This name the Spaniards changed into San Mateo, but\\nthe river is now known as the St. John s. Taking its rise among\\nthe springs of southern Florida, it flows north for a distance, in all\\nits twists and turns, of more than four hundred miles, to Jackson-\\nville, where it turns eastward and empties into the Atlantic Ocean,\\ntwenty-five miles from that city; and for the greater part of this\\ndistance its banks are lined with a luxuriant sub tropical vegeta-\\ntion, mingled with some familiar growths of temperate climes.", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "J^roni its mouth to the city of Sanford it forms a liquid highway\\nsome two hundred and eighteen miles in length, navigable for large\\nsteamers, and its banks dotted at intervals by picturesque cities and\\nvillages, Orange groves and solitary residences. Near the sea it is\\na broad, majestic stream winding amongst marshes dotted with\\nisland-like mounds of higher ground clothed with Pines, Live\\nOaks and a variety of lower-growing vegetation, spots of deepest\\ninterest to the botanist.\\nNearing Jacksonville the banks grow higher, rising in many\\nplaces into bold bluffs crowned with residences and an occasional\\nOrange grove. But thus far there is little suggestive of the tropics,\\nexcept the deliciously soft, balmy air, the rounded heads of the\\nCabbage Palms, and the long gray moss festooning the limbs of\\nthe giant Live Oaks.\\nAlthough from Jacksonville to Sanford the distance on an air\\nline is only a trifle over one hundred miles,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and by rail is only one\\nhundred and twenty-five miles by the river, owing to its innumer-\\nable windings, one hundred and ninety-three miles must be trav-\\nersed. After rounding Grassy Point oft Jacksonville, the average\\nwidth of this grand stream for a distance of seventy-five miles\\nsouth is more than three miles, widening at Green Cove Springs to\\nfive miles. Numerous small villages dot either side, and one\\nMandarin on the east bank, possesses special interest. Here, near\\nthe landing, and almost hidden among fine old Oaks and Orange\\ntrees, is the home of the celebrated authoress of Uncle Tom s\\nCabin, Mrs. H. B. Stowe. Thirty miles from Jacksonville is Green\\nCove Springs, noted for its magnificent sulphur spring. It is\\nlocated in u wooded and picturesque hollow, and gushes forth\\n3,000 gallons of water per minute, clear and pure as crystal.\\nAs the steamer glides on over the placid water the scenery be-\\ncomes more varied. Orange groves appear in greater numbers, and\\nas these are approached the golden, sunlit air pulsates with the\\nwondrous song of that winged mimic of the woods, the mock-\\ning bird. The river gradually narrows, vegetation grows thicker\\nand more tropical, the scenery is wilder, and cranes, from snowy\\nwhite to the common blue, as well as numerous other aquatic birds,\\nare seen in the tall grasses along the shore, or running about on\\nthe Lily pads.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "At last the boat enters what is called the Upper St. John s and\\nhere the scene becomes weird, beautiful and picturesque beyond\\ndescription. In many places the river narrows to a width of only\\none hundred feet and winds and turns and curves like a gigantic\\nserpent. The banks are lined with vegetation of the greatest luxu-\\nriance, and almost every individual growth is unfamiliar to the\\nNorthern eye. The Cabbage Palm, in every stage of its growth,\\nrears aloft its noble form, growing down to the water s edge, some-\\ntimes singly, sometimes in groups, and sometimes in groves, to the\\nexclusion of everything else the lordly Magnolia towers aloft in\\nall its majesty of russet brown and emerald green, while the gentle\\nzephyrs disclose in silver ripples the abiding places of the Sweet\\nBay; the wet places are occupied by colonies of the funereal Cypress,\\nwith huge buttressed trunks and attendant swarms of curiosity-\\nprovoking knees, the plumy boughs, so high aloft, silhouetted\\nagainst a sky as deeply and intensely blue as the waters beneath are\\ndark vines of many genera and species run riot, binding bush to\\nbush and tree to tree in an inextricable tangle, from which peeps\\nforth, here and there, a brilliant blossom gleaming like the flash of\\nthe wing of some gorgeous feathered songster of the tropics long\\nsilvery strands and waving banners of Spanish Moss are draped\\nfrom every limb with a prodigal profuseness afforded only by a\\nnature whose resources are inexhaustible, and, while strongly em-\\nphasizing the weirdness and unique beauty of the scene, tends to\\nvary and lighten the mass of vegetation which at times becomes\\noppressive from its very density and luxuriance. Mrs. Jennie S.\\nPerkins, in her beautiful poem, Summer on the St. John s, the\\nfirst verse of which heads this article, draws the following exqui-\\nsite picture of the scene\\nMoss-veiled trees, like nuns enshrouded.\\nAll in grey in silence stand\\nThrough the boughs the golden sunbeams\\nDrop their crosses on the sand.\\nStealing through the solemn stillness\\nGentle murmurs fill the air,\\nLike the penitential sighing\\nOf the holy monks at prayer.\\nAnon the boat glides past the mouth of some little tributary\\nstream flowing through a perfect archway of never-fading green,\\nup which maybe caught a momentary flash of the flaming blossoms", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "of Hibiscus coccinea. The northern Lobelia cardinalis mingles\\nits glowing wands with the white Lily-like umbels of Crinum\\namericanum, while the delicious sweetness of innumerable Spider\\nLilies rises like incense upon an already perfume-laden atmosphere.\\nAnd so the scene continues until the steamer emerges into Lake\\nMonroe, every bend and curve revealing new beauties and new com-\\nbinations, the whole forming a picture the impression of which will\\nnever fade from the mind s eye.\\nNothing can be conceived of more beautiful and soul-inspiring\\nthan the St. John s by moonlight. Nowhere have I seen Luna\\nshine with such clearness and brilliancy as in this fair clime, there-\\nby greatly intensifying all shadows and producing exceptionally\\nweird and beautiful effects. Shining upon the rippling waters of\\nthis glorious stream, the steamer seems to be gliding along a path-\\nway of moulten silver, between walls of verdure sparkling with the\\nfrost-white blossoms of the Moonflower. Gen. Grant, at the close\\nof a day and moonlight night on this river, said: In all my jour-\\nney round the world I have seen nothing to equal this trip.\\nBut if the river is transcendently beautiful by moonlight, it is\\ninexpressibly weird and grand on a dark night, when the search-\\nlight is brought into play to light up the steamer s course. The\\ntransformation is as marvelous as though produced by a magician s\\nwand. The banks on either hand, and the water beneath seem to\\nbe gliding swiftly past, while every tree, shrub, vine and flower\\nwithin a certain distance from the shore line, is thrown into start-\\nling relief upon a pall-like background of seemingly impenetrable\\ndarkness, and the curious floating Water Lettuce appears like\\nlovely, snow-white Water-Lily blossoms drifting in a sea of ink.\\nI cannot close this feeble attempt at describing this beautiful\\nriver in a more fitting manner than by quoting the closing stanza\\nof Mrs. Perkins poem:\\nDark and shadowed are the forests,\\nWeird and tropic is the gloom,\\nAll above is dreamy splendor.\\nAll below is scent and bloom.\\nWhere St. John s romantic river\\nRolls in grandeur silently.\\nNature plants her fairy gardens\\nFrom his sources to the sea.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nWonderful Plant Growths in Florida.\\nThere is continual spring and harvest there,\\nFor all the plants do scented blossoms bear;\\nAmong the shady leaves, their sweet delight\\nThrow forth such dainty odors day and night.\\nEW objects impress the tourist or newcomer to Florida\\nwith more amazement and delight than the great size\\nattained here in the open ground by m.-iny of their\\nfavorite pot plants of the North. Very many plants\\nwhich, under pot culture, give no indications of being other than\\ndwarfs by nature, are, in reality, quite the opposite when sur-\\nrounded by environments conducive to their full development.\\nMany of the most treasured pets of the northern conservatory or\\nwindow garden find in a Florida ji^carden perfect congeniality of soil\\nand temperature, and rapidly assume proportions which seem\\nalmost incredible to a Northern flower lover and cultivator.\\nA striking illustration is furnished by many varieties of Roses.\\nHere the Everblooming sorts are as hardy as the Hybrid Perpetuals\\nor Mosses at the North, and if given a little attention annually in\\nthe way of fertilizing, pruning and cultivating, they soon attain\\nenormous proportions, and literally load themselves with flowers.\\nSafrano, Isabella Sprunt, La France, Catherine Mermet, etc., eight\\nfeet high and equally as broad, bending under a combined weight\\nof hundreds of buds and blossoms, are not unusual and are not the\\nlargest sizes attained by any means. The old Agrippina and Pink\\nDaily Roses are very common in this state, and one or both are\\nto be found in the yard of almost every native Floridian. They are\\neverblooming in every sense of the word, never being without flow-\\ners, though produced in greater profusion at certain seasons. I\\nknow of a specimen of each of these Roses, growing in the same", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "yard, which have attained unusual size and are really wonderful\\nobjects to behold. The Agrippina has a stem twenty-four inches in\\ncircumference, is nine and one-half feet high, and the entire bush\\nfifty-four feet in circumference. It is of regular oval shape, and\\nwhen I saw it a bushel of Roses could have been cut from it and not\\nbeen missed. The Pink Daily has a tree-like stem nearly six inches\\nin diameter, but the bush is not so regular in shape as the Agrip-\\npina. Another party has a Tea Rose (probably Phoenix,) which is\\neight and one-half feet high and fourteen feet wide.\\nBut Marechal Niel, when budded or grafted on some strong-\\ngrowing sort, makes a growth which casts all the above quite into\\nthe shade. When the stock is a congenial one, this exquisite Rose\\nwill run like a grapevine, soon clambering to the ridge-pole of a\\ntwo-story building and producing bushels of its golden globes of\\nexquisite perfume and often of immense size. While the flowers\\nare slow to develop, they are very persistent, remaining in good\\nform for a long time, often until they wear out. A neighbor pos-\\nsesses a remarkably fine specimen of this Rose. Is is five years old,\\nthe main stem is seven inches in circumference, and the plant covers\\nabout thirty feet square, but would have covered at least fifty feet\\nsquare had it not been kept cut back. The owner is sure that if\\nlet grow, and a trellis made for it, in three years it would cover\\none-half acre of ground. It blooms more or less every month in the\\nyear, but in February, March and April it bears a full crop of fiow-\\ners, having as many as three hundred Roses at one time.\\nThose familiar with the Lantana as a pot plant only can hardly\\nconceive of the wonderful proportions to which it attains here in\\nthe open ground, its marvelous rapidity of growth and prodigal\\nprofusion of bloom. A small plant set out in the poorest soil will\\nattain a height of four or five feet, with a spread of ten feet, inside\\nof a year, and be completely covered with flowers nearly all the\\ntime. If cut down by frost it soon sprouts up stronger than ever,\\nand goes on increasing in size from year to year. We have a row\\nof these plants which have developed into an unbroken hedge ten\\nfeet wide and six feet high. When in bloom, butterflies constantly\\nhover about, and the blue-black berries are as eagerly sought and\\ndevoured by the mocking-birds. One of my correspondents in this\\nState has a Lantana bush ten feet high, with a spread of thirty-one", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "feet How would some of our Northern sister flower lovers fancy\\nthe task of lifting and potting such a giant\\nThis same correspondent possesses a remarkably fine plant of\\nthe Malayan Jessamine (Rhyncospermum Jasminoides,) a choice\\nevergreen climber often cultivated in pots at the North. It was set\\nout fifteen years ago, and is trained up a stout lightwood pole ten\\ninches in diameter and twenty-two feet high, stuck full of pegs two\\nfeet long. The main stem is now ten and one-fourth inches in cir-\\ncumference, and it covers the pole entirely with a mass of stems and\\nits beautiful glossy foliage, from six to ten feet in diameter, and\\nfor weeks in the Spring the whole plant is a cloud of lovely white\\nflowers, which fills the house and grounds with delightful fra-\\ngrance.\\nRusselia juncea, or Coral Plant, as some call it, which has\\nrecently been brought prominently before the public, is another\\nplant which makes a remarkable growth in this State and flowers\\nalmost the year round. An established plant is constantly sending\\nup stout canes six or eight feet high, clothed with peculiar Rush-like\\nbranches and myriads of tubular, coral red flowers. Many of the\\ncanes are simply great plumes or ropes of flowers, bending and\\nswaying under their own weight of loveliness. When allowed its\\nown sweet will the branches droop until their tips touch the earth,\\ninto which they quickly root and send up fresh shoots, these in turn\\ntaking root and the plants spreading over a considerable space of\\nground. I have been told of a specimen which, left unmolested for\\nsome years, attained a height of twelve or fifteen feet and covered a\\nspace twice as large as the ground floor of a good-sized dwelling\\nhouse.\\nNearly all members of the Amaryllis family grow to perfection\\nin this State, requiring little or no care after planting out, and\\nsome species of Crinum attain a great size, and produce an immense\\nnumber of flowers. On our grounds there is a fine specimen of\\nCrinuifn augustum, or Grandolia, as it is called in some local-\\nities, which would astonish the cultivator of ordinary Amaryllis.\\nThe neck of the bulb is twenty-seven inches in circumference at the\\nsurface of the ground, and extends below the surface at least two\\nfeet. From this bulb there radiates upward and outward thirty-\\nthree luxuriant leaves, the longest ones measuring five feet and ten\\n^7", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "inches from base to tip, and seven and one-half inches wide at the\\nbroadest part. The ends of these leaves droop downward in a very\\ngraceful and symmetrical manner, and as the plant stands, without\\nstraightening up the ends of the leaves, it measures five feet and\\nthree inches in height, and six feet and three inches through the top\\nor spread of leaves. It is almost constantly in bloom, and the\\numbels of buds and open flowers are often larger than a half bushel\\nmeasure. But this bulb has been planted only about three years.\\nAn old and long-established bulb has produced an umbel of flowers\\nso large that when carried in a covered buggy it completely hid the\\nperson in the scat.\\nSpace will not admit of descriptions of all the plants which at-\\ntain to unusual proportions in Florida, and I can only briefly men-\\ntion a few more of the most notable examples. Oleanders thrive\\nlike weeds, and quickly attain to the dimensions of respectable sized\\ntrees. Specimens, with trunks two feet in circumference, twenty-\\nfive or thirty feet high, and even forty feet through the top, are not\\nunusual. The Chinese Hibiscus is equally at home here, though\\nmore susceptible to frost, and frequently attains a height of\\ntwelve or fifteen feet with a spread of ten or twelve feet. Begonia\\nrubra has been trained over the front door of a house, and even\\nalong the ceiling of the veranda, producing clusters of fiowers as\\nlarge as a child s head, and hanging on the plant for six months.\\nSolanum J asminoides grandiflora will completely cover a whole\\nveranda, and be white as snow with flowers; the Rose Geranium\\ngrows six or eight feet high, and ten or more feet across; a plant of\\nJusticia coccinea has attained a width of nine and one-half feet\\nand seven and one- fourth feet high, and the Plumbagos grow ten\\nfeet high and wide. All of these plants produce flowers in quite\\nas wonderful profusion as the size they attain to but the blue rib-\\nbon must be awarded to an Allamanda Hcndersonii, which dur-\\ning a season of five months produced a total of about twelve\\nthousand flowers, there being from two to three hundred open\\nevery day.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nSilver Spring and its Romantic Legend.\\nI l HIN the borders of Florida are found many remarkable\\nand beautiful springs, but the most wondrous and\\nworld-famed of them all is Silver Spring, located in\\nMarion county, about five miles east of the city of\\nOcala. This spring, like some others in the State, is remarkable\\nfor its great size and depth and the immense volume of water which\\nit constantly discharges, forming a navigable river up which good-\\nsized steamers ply into the spring itself. In or connected with this\\nspring are several deep basins or pools known locally as the\\nHead, Bridal Chamber, Bone Yard, etc., and the combined\\nwaters of these forms Silver Spring Run, which extends between\\nwooded banks for a distance of six miles, when it mingles with the\\ndark waters of the Ocklawaha river, a tributary of the St. John s.\\nBut the most remarkable phenomenon connected with Silver\\nSpring is the marvelous transparency of the water, surpassing the\\nwildest flights of the imagination and quite beyond the belief of\\nthose who have never visited the place. Although the maximum\\ndepth of the water in the head spring or pool and adjacent\\nsprings is from sixty to ninety feet, every feature and configuration\\nof the bottom is as distinctly visible as though gazing through a\\nclear atmosphere instead of water. In some places the bottom is\\ncovered with a luxuriant growth of fresh water Algae, while in\\nothers it is wholly clear of vegetation and is composed of limestone\\nand white sand. Here are fissures in the limestone through which\\nthe water is seen boiling up. These fissures are filled with sand\\nand comminuted limestone, and the agitation thereof by the as-\\ncending currents of water produces a milk-white appearance about\\nthe crevices.\\nCraving into the depths below from the side of a boat floating\\n*9", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "over the surface, on a clear and calm sunny day, one seems sus-\\npended in mid-air, viewing beneath an ever-changing panorama of\\ndarting fish, subaqueous vegetation waving to and fro, boiling\\nsprings, swaying Algae, etc., beautiful beyond description and mak-\\ning a powerful and lasting impression upon the imagination. The\\nsunlight tinges each object with prismatic hues, and by some\\nstrange, weird, magnifying property of the waters, objects are en-\\nlarged and seem so near as to render it difficult to realize the actual\\ndepth of the water. Fish which seem within easy reach are, in\\nreality, resting safe far below the range of a long-handled spear,\\nand if a dime or other bright object be dropped in, it may be\\nwatched slowly settling in the depths, with prismatic changes and\\nflashings of light, and seemingly growing larger as it sinlis. I\\nknow it will seem impossible to my readers when I state that a tiny\\npiece of white paper the size of a silver three cent piece or even\\nsmaller, lying at the bottom of the spring is as distinguishable as\\nthough within a foot of the eye, and even the V on a nickel five\\ncent piece is plainly discernable, but it is true. An ordinary store\\nsign has been sunk in the spring and lies on the bottom face up.\\nFrom the deck of the steamer, as it moved across the surface of the\\nspring, I read the name on the sign as easily as though it lay on the\\ndeck at my feet instead of under more than sixty feet of water\\nclearer than air. Although the sign is one of the most ordinary\\ncheap affairs, such as appear on small country stores, the wondrous\\npowers of the water renders it positively beautiful, for the letters\\nand the board on which they are painted, are bordered or edged\\nwith prismatic hues like miniature rainbows. And every blade of\\ngrass or other object in the spring, is bordered with the same ex-\\nquisite colors and tints.\\nWhen the steamers enter the spring after nightfall they carry\\nlighted torches, which produces an effect more weird and wonder-\\nful than the most vivid imagination is able to picture. Mrs. Har-\\nriet Beecher Stowe paints the following vivid pen picture of such\\nan entrance: We seemed floating through an immense catliedral,\\nwhere white marble columns meet in vast arches overhead and are\\nreflected in the grassy depths below. The dusky plumes of the\\nPalmetto waving above, lit by torchlight, looked like fine tracery\\nof a wondrous sculptured roof. The brilliant underwhite of th^", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Bay leaves, the transparent red of the Water Maple, and the soft\\nvelvet feathers of the Cypress, had a magical brilliancy as our boat\\npassed through the wooded isles. The reflected fire-light gave the\\nmost peculiar effect. The gray moss that streamed down seemed\\nlike draping veils of silver and was of wonderful profusion. Clouds\\nof fragrance were wafted to us from Orange groves along the shore;\\nand the transparent depth of the water gave the impression that\\nour boat was moving through the air. Every pebble aod aquatic\\nplant we glided over seemed, in the torcblight, invested with prism-\\natic brightness. What a sight was that! There is nothing on earth\\ncomparable to it!\\nLike most places of unusual natural beauty and interest. Silver\\nSpring has its Indian legend. In substance it is as follows: Oka-\\nhumkee, who was king over the tribes of Indians who roamed and\\nhunted about the northwestern lakes, had a daughter called We-\\nnonah, who was the pride of his life. She possessed rare beauty,\\nand had a wealth of raven tresses which fell about her beauteous\\nform like a silken robe, reflecting back the sunlight with wondrous\\neffect. Chiefs and warriors vied with each other in the perform-\\nance of brave feats, in the hope of winning the hand of this forest\\nbelle; but Wenonah had, in the meantime, seen and loved Chuleo-\\ntah, a renowned chief of the tribe which, dwelt among the wild\\ngroves of Silver Spring. Small wonder that Chuleotah stirred the\\ndepths of dusky Wenonah s heart, for he was not only a famous\\nchief, but a magnificent type of physical manhood and possessed\\nof unusual intelligence and bravery.\\nBut between the tribes of Okahumkee and Chuleotah there ex-\\nisted a deadly feud, and no sooner did the former learn of his\\ndaughter s love for the hated chief, than he gathered his warriors\\nand marched forth to give him battle. In the fight which followed\\nChuleotah was slain by Okahumkee. As soon as Wenonah learned\\nthat her lover was dead she flew to the Crystal Fountain, which had\\nbeen a favorite trysting place, and upon its still bosom beheld the\\npale spirit of Chule ..tah beckoning to her. With this cry upon her\\nlips: Yes, my own, my loved one, I come she plunged into\\nthe crystal waters and joined her lover in the happy hunting\\ngrounds. The long, green filaments of moss and fresh water Al-\\ngae growing from the white sands in the bottom of the spring,", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "moving to and fro in the sunlight which they reflect in many\\nbright hues, are the loosened braids of Wenonah s hair, from\\nwhich the beauteous reflections of sun and moonlight are the chief\\nglory of the spring.\\nWhile gazing into its crystal depths and musing on the roman-\\ntic legend connected with it, comes the thought whether tiiis may\\nnot be the spring the gallant old Spaniard, Ponce de Leon, heard\\nof; the magical Fountain of Youth which he searched Florida in\\nvain to discover. It may be that it was the fame of this identical\\nspring which reached his ears, leading to one of the most romantic\\nepisodes in the early history of this country.\\nThe water in Silver Spring Run, from its source to where it\\njoins the black flood of the Ocklawaha, is nearly as transparent as\\nin the spring, and a boat ride up or down its length is a charming\\nexperience. In some places it is shallow and the bottom thickly\\ncovered with aquatic vegetation; in others the current has scooped\\nout great pools, twenty, thirty, even fifty feet in depth\u00e2\u0080\u0094 though the\\ninexperienced would guess the water not over six to ten feet deep\\nthe bottom covered with white sand which, however, looks bluish\\nthrough the water. Great fish lie or glide about in these pools, pay-\\ning not the slightest attention to boat or steamer, thougli they seem\\nas though within two or three feet of the surface. Along the banks\\nLobelia cardinalls mingles its fiery bloom with the snowy white-\\nness and sweetness of Grlniun americanum and other wild flow-\\ners, and if the day is a warm one, an alligator may very likely be\\nsurprised taking his sun-bath on an old log.\\nThere are two ways of reaching this famous spring. One is by\\nsteamer from Palatka via the St. Jolin s and Ocklawaha rivers, a\\nmarvelous trip described in the following chapter; the other by the\\nFlorida Central and Peninsular Railroad, the great trunk line of\\nFlorida. The depot is built over the edge of the spring, and the\\nnorth and south bound trains meet here at noon and stop nearly\\na half hour for dinner and a view of this interesting wonder; but\\none may profitably spend hours, or even days, here in examining\\nand admiring this remarkable phenomenon of nature.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nOn the Wondrous Ocklawaha.\\nHE most singular stream of water in the United States is\\nundoubtedly the Ocklawaha river. Such a combination\\nof weirdness, beauty and enchantment, oftimes combined\\nwith utter desolation, as exists between the mouth of\\nthis river and Silver Spring, cannot be found in any other part of\\nthe United States. A tributary of the St. John s, all the beauty and\\nfascination of that romantic river is here reproduced and intensi-\\nfied tenfold, and a trip up or down the Ocklawaha is an experience\\nthe memory of which will never be effaced from the mind that is at\\nall impressional.\\nMrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe in writing of a trip up this stream,\\nrightly termed it a visit to Fairy Land, and of her fellow passen-\\ngers she said: They returned from their trip fairly inebriated\\nwith enthusiasm and wild with inherent raptures. They had seen\\nEurope, Italy, Naples and the Blue Grotto, but never, never had\\nthey in their lives seen aught so entrancing as this. It was a spec-\\ntacle weird, wondrous, magical\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to be remembered as one of the\\nthings of a lifetime. Of her own impressions of the Ocklawaha,\\nshe continues in her graphic style: The boat glides on from hour\\nto hour as the river winds and turns and doubles upon itself, with\\nstill the same flowery solitudes, reverberating with the same wild\\ncries of birds, glittering with slanting sunbeams, festooned with\\nwaving garlands that hang from tree to tree.\\nThis river has its source in the great Lake Apopka, and flows\\nthrough Lakes Harris, Eustis, Griffin, etc., being navigable a dis-\\ntance of two hundred and forty-one miles. The Indian, with his\\ncharacteristic fondness for the use of descriptive appellatives, gave\\nit the musical and very appropriate name of Ocklawaha, meaning\\nwinding water. The significance of the name is fully appreciated", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "by the voyager on its dark waters, for between its mouth and the\\npoint where it is joined by the crystal flood of Silver Spring Run, a\\ndistance of about one hundred and ten miles, there are no less than\\nnine hundred and seventj ^-six bends the most of them very abrupt\\nones which the steamers round with some difficulty. Added to its\\ntortuousness the channel is so narrow that the steamers plying on\\nits surface are built in stories, one deck above another, looking like\\nvery narrow houses perched on a tug-boat with a big paddle wheel\\nat the stern.\\nThese steamers start from Palatka, on the St. John s river, and\\nrun to Silver Spring, a trip alone worth going any distance to take.\\nAlthough Palatka and Silver Spring are only a trifle over fifty\\nmiles apart on an air line, by water the distance is one hundred and\\nthirty-six miles, and it takes tweutj -four hours to make the trip.\\nThe first twenty-six miles is on the bosom of the noble St. John s,\\nbetween banks lined with beautiful Orange groves or clothed with\\nOaks, Pines, Magnolias, Water Maples, etc., every bay and cove\\nfilled with Water Lilies interspersed with the curious Water Let-\\ntuce, and the still more curious and beautiful Water Hyacinth\\nwhich has become thoroughly naturalized and is constantly met\\nserenely sailing about, as blown by the breeze, sometimes singly\\nand sometimes in groups.\\nPresently the steamer s bow is headed for the seemingly^ un-\\nbroken line of the shore, but a slight opening in the solid wall of\\nverdure appears, through which the steamer glides and enters\\nthe mystic Ocklawaha.\\nOver our heads the towering, tenebrous bouglis of the cypress\\nMet iu a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air\\nWaved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals;\\nDeath-like the silence seemed, and unbroken, save by the herons.\\nHome to their roosts in the cedar trees returning at sunset.\\nOr by the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter.\\nAt once begins a series of twists and turns that extend without\\ninterruption to the end of the journey, and at no time is the man at\\nthe wheel iu the pilot-house perched on the upper deck motion-\\nless many moments in succession, for no sooner has the steamer\\nlabored around a sharp curve to the right, than the wheel must be\\nreversed in order to make an equally abrupt turn to the left, and\\n24", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "this goes on unceasingly. On either hand the verdure is so neal*\\nthat it may be almost reached from the deck rail, and while round-\\ning many of the bends of the river the branches of the trees brush\\nthe sides of the boat. At one point called Cypress Gate, formerly\\nstood two immense Cypress trees growing exactly opposite each\\nother on either bank, with just room enough between them for the\\nsteamer to pass through. One of them has been cut down, but the\\nstump remains.\\nOn top of the pilot-house is a large iron cage, and as night comes\\non this is filled with pine knots and set on fire to furnish light to\\nsteer by; and then what a scene is revealed and what a transforma-\\ntion! The flaring light casts a glow ahead and upon either hand,\\nwhile in the darkness behind trails a comet-like tail of smoke and\\nglittering sparks. By the artificial light the white trunks of the\\nMagnolias look like polished columns of silver, the moss-draped\\ncrowns of the towering Cypress appear as if enshrouded in exqui-\\nsite bridal veils, and the umbrageous Palms, feathery Ferns, trail-\\ning vines, lance-like reeds and waving water grasses combine to\\nform silhouettes of wondrous designs and infinite variety.\\nA faint glow appearing on the distant sky and gradually draw-\\ning nearer, indicates that a down-stream steamer is approaching,\\nand at the first convenient widening in the river-bed our boat is\\ncrowded close up to the bank, and fastened there, to await the arri-\\nval and passing of the other; and now occurs a magic scene, one\\nimpossible to fully describe. Nearer and nearer comes the ap-\\nproaching steamer, a line of fire among the tree tops marking her\\nerratic course. Although but a short distance away on a direct\\nline, the serpentine course of the river multiplies it many times.\\nLike a demon spouting fire from its nostrils, the steamer labors\\nthrough the intricacies of the labyrinth she is threading. Her illu-\\nminated form is now partially visible through the trees and every\\nmoment it seems as if she must burst into full view and pass, but\\nas often is her bow suddenly turned from us and she plunges into\\nthe darkness of a piece of thick, intervening forest, to shortly reap-\\npear at a nearer point, but only to repeat this interesting game of\\nhide-and-seek.\\nFinally she sweeps around the last bend of the stream and\\ncomes into full view, lights flashing from every door and window.", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "A dusky form casts an armful of pine knots into the blazing cage\\nand ten thousand sparks shoot heavenward, rivaling in brilliancy\\nthe pyrotechnic display of a northern Fourth of July; the steamers\\nsalute, the ear-splitting blasts dying away in the distant solitudes\\nof the primeval forest; the decks are crowded with enraptured\\ntourists, and on the lower forward deck a group of darkies, with\\nbanjos, are singing, with the matchless melody of their race, Way\\nDown in Dixie. Only a moment the dazzling vision lasts ere it\\nsweeps around the next bend, the lines of our own craft are cast off\\nand the engine set in motion once more. So fascinating and unique\\nis the ever-chauging panorama of light and shadow effects that it\\nis nearly midnight before the desire to sleep asserts itself.\\nIn the early morning light much of the weirdness of the night\\nscene is transformed into pictures of magic beauty. Sitting on the\\ndeck, a hundred strange forms of vegetation present themselves on\\nevery hand and every curvein the river reveals new beauties. Sud-\\ndenly the moss veiled crowns of the towering Cypresses assume a\\nroseate tinge that betokens the advent of sunrise. Rapidly it de-\\nscends those immense trunks and presently, through the curtains\\nof branch and leafage, the golden beams fall athwart the deck.\\nNow they are shining from the right a sudden curve in the river\\nand they fall from straight ahead; another bend, and the sunshines\\nfrom the left, and yet another curve and its rays fall from behind.\\nThus in half an hour s time the steamer s bow has indicated the\\nfour points of the compass.\\nPalms abound on every hand, holding their noble crowns aloft\\nlike the royal princes of the vegetable kingdom that they are, or be-\\nneath the shade of more aspiring growths hide the rich mold with\\nmyriads of cool green fans which are waved only by the winds of\\nheaven. Trees, shrubs and vines, strange to Northern eyes, are on\\nevery side, forced into the greatest luxuriance possible by a soil of\\nwonderful fertility. Thousands of Crinum amerlcanum line the\\nbanks, thrusting above their lush, green foliage umbels of pure\\nwhite, Lily-like flowers of exquisite beauty and fragrance. And so\\nit continues. No pen can describe it, no imagination can picture it.\\nIt must be seen to be appreciated, and once seen it will live in the\\nmemory as long as memory itself endures.\\n26", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nWay Down on the Indian River.\\nThousands of flowers there are beaming,\\nThe verdure smiling, and the hushed waves dreaming;\\nEach flower is still a brighter hue assuming,\\nEach a fair league, the love-sick air perfuming.\\nQUALLY as iuteresting, wonderful and beautiful as the\\nOcklawaha described in the preceding chapter but in a\\ndifferent way, is the famous Indian River called by the\\nSeminole Indian, in his liquid language, Tsetsa-ta-\\nhatchec. It is a broad, beautiful stream that extends for one hun-\\ndred and fifty miles along the eastern coast of South Florida, and\\nin reality is more of a sound than a river, for it is an arm of the sea\\nfed through narrow inlets, rising and falling with the tides and par-\\ntaking of the bj-ine and marine life of the great outlying ocean.\\nWith a channel two miles in width, it stretches\\nLike a broad blue ribbon lying\\nfor a distance of one hundred miles without a curve, separated from\\nthe Atlantic by a narrow sand dune.\\nThis long, straight stretch is the direct opposite extreme of the\\nwinding water of the Ocklawaha, but at a point known as the\\nNarrows, there are windings of the river bed, with curves and\\nturns innumerable, duplicating the tortuousness of the latter\\nstream, the banks clothed with a tropical tangle of Mangroves and\\nvines a jungle almost impenetrable, but beautiful and fascinating\\nto look upon. The river is shallow, and the clean, sandy bottom\\nvisible through the clear water that is amber when looked through\\nbut beautifully blue when looked upon and all along the shores\\nare bordered with a stratum of soft, yellowish rock, a curious con-\\nglomeration of small shells, known as coquina.\\nWhere the banks have not been denuded of their natural\\ngrowth, they are clothed with a rich tropical forest of Palms,", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "Cypress, Oaks, twines, numerous under shrubs and vines; and the\\nalternating: and intermingling of these with the never-fading green\\nof the Orange, Lemon and Lime groves, the extensive Pineapple\\nplantations and numerous residences and hotels, surrounded by\\nstrange tropical and semi-tropical fruits and brilliant flowering\\nplants and shrubs, forms a rare scenic panorama of never-ending\\nbeauty and interest.\\nAt some points there are whole forests of the lordly Cabbage\\nPalm or Palmetto, lending a strange and truly tropical aspect to\\nthe landscape. All sizes and ages are represented, from the tiny\\nseedling just sending its first bciby leaf above the fostering mold, to\\nthe grand old specimens aged beyond the knowledge of man, with\\nlithe, smooth boles shooting far up into space and ending in a\\nfeathery, rounded crown clearly outlined against the soft blue sky.\\nOne wanders beneath their shade awed by their majesty and\\ngrandeur, and strangely impressed by the mystic whispering of\\ntheir rustling leav s and the evident strength of their slim, supple\\ntrunks which have successfully defied the sea winds for an untold\\nage.\\nThe surface of the stream is relieved, in places, by small islands\\nsuggesting the summer isles of Eden lying in the dark purple\\nspheres of sea little green gems that have been styled emerald\\nglobes in a fairy lake. Surrounded by Mangroves and crowned by\\na few waving Palms, these rocky islets afford a welcome retreat\\nand nesting-places to the numerous sea birds that frequent the\\nriver. Here, too, may be seen the strange anomaly of oysters\\ngrowing on trees, a statement that sounds ridiculous, but is, never-\\ntheless, true. When the tide recedes, the luscious bivalves are\\nexposed adhering to the curious stilt-like and much forked aerial\\nroots of the Mangroves, and they may be gathered into a basket\\nmuch the same as fruit is gathered from bushes or trees.\\nIn the vicinity of the shores of the river there are many ancient\\nshell mounds, mute reminders of a departed people, which doubt-\\nless contain relics of much value and absorbing interest to the\\narchaeologist and the out-cropping, wave-washed stratum of\\ncoquina stands ready to yield up, under the stroke of the geologist s\\nhammer, its quota of the history of the rise of this fair land above\\nthe blue waters of the surrounding ocean and Gulf.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Only from three to five miles west of this river winds the\\nwaters of the upper St. John s, and probably nowhere else in the\\nknown world is this curious phenomenon duplicated two rivers in\\nsuch close oroximity, the one flowing north, the other south, one\\nfresh, the other salt, and both finding an outlet on the same coast\\nand into the same ocean, but at points more than two hundred\\nmiles apart. Until the winter of 1893-4, the waters of^ the Indian\\nRiver formed the only highway to the region through which it\\nruns and to the tropical wonders and beauties of the famous Lake\\nWorth region, where the Cocoanut Palm grows in all its beauty\\nand the Banyan-like Florida Rubber-tree astonishes all beholders\\nby its eccentric growth.\\nThe Indian River region has always been famous for its fine\\nfruits. Around the upper part of the river are some of the oldest\\nand finest Orange groves in the State, and Lemons, Limes, Citron\\nand Grape Fruit abound in perfection. Besides these, there are\\ngrown in more limited quantities semi-tropical and tropical fruits\\nthat are rarely, if ever, seen in Northern markets. Most plentiful\\nis the Guava, with its musky scented and flavored fruit, so delicious\\nto all who acquire a taste for it. The Sapodilla or Naseberry\\n(Achras savota,) a tree with beautiful broad, glossy leaves, ripens\\nits fruit, which may be compared to a Russet Apple, with the taste\\nof a rich, sweet, juicy Pear, with granulated pulp. Another\\ndelicious fruit grown is the Sugar Apple or Sweet Sop {Anona\\nsquamosa.) The fruit resembles an inverted cone, or a small Pine-\\napple minus t e crown, is of a yellowish green color when ripe,\\nthe pulp very sweet and of the consistency of soft butter. The\\nMango {Mangtfera Indica) and the Alligator or Avocado Pear (Per-\\nsea gratissima) form large trees of striking aspect and great\\nbeauty, and produce fruit of much value.\\nBut the chief fruit of this region, and the one for which it is\\nbecoming the most famous, is the Pineapple, the raising of which\\nis becoming a business of great magnitude, and yearly bringing\\nthousands of dollars into the State. Until within the past three or\\nfour years, Florida Pineapples were hardly a factor in the North-\\nern markets; but last year the crop amounted to 50,000 or perhaps\\n60,000 cases, a case holding as much as a small barrel. The variety\\npaostly raised for shipment is the Red Spanish or Strawberry, s\\\\,\\n?9", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "variety that stands transportation the best of any. When it is\\nallowed to ripen on the plant it is a very fine fruit, but for shipping\\nit is picked while yet hard and green, and ripens up in transit or\\nafter reaching market. Those who have eaten only such fruit have\\nnot the slightest conception of what the finer varieties, ripened\\non the plants, taste like. A well ripened specimen of the Egyptian\\nQueen, Sugar Loaf or Porto Rico varieties will scent a whole field,\\nand in flavor will bear out ihe assertion made by Jean de Lery, a\\nHuguenot priest, more than three hundred years ago, as being of\\nsuch excellence that the gods might luxuriate upon it, and that it\\nshould only be gathered by the hand of Venus.\\nAlthough rarely more than two sorts are ever seen in Northern\\nmarkets, there are quite a large number of varieties differing in\\npoints of size, appearance and flavor. The Porto Rico, a very dis\\ntinct sort and the largest of all, has been grown in Florida to\\nweigh as much as sixteen or eighteen pounds, and other varieties\\nnot infrequently attain a weight of eight or ten pounds. The flesh\\nof such Pineapples melt in the mouth, there being no core nor\\nstrings to reject, and no sugar is needed with them.\\nPineapple plantations are abundant along the river, presenting\\nevery stage of growth, from the newly set plants to those bearing\\nfruit, and the sight is an interesting one and would be decidedly\\nnt)vel to the resident of a colder clime. A plantation is made from\\nsuckers, slips or crowns. Suckers are vigorous young\\nplants which come up from the root of the old plant, either before\\nor while it is fruiting, and they will bear fruit in from one year to\\neighteen months after setting out. Slips come from under the base\\nof the apple as often seen on the fruit in market and produce\\nfruit in from eighteen months to two years. The crown, which is\\nthe growth on the top of the apple, will fruit in about two years.\\nOnly one fruit is produced by a plant, which then dies and is re-\\nplaced by the suckers springing from its root. Usually but one of\\nthese suckers is allowed to remain, the others being removed and\\nset out to form individual plants. Little cultivation is given excep-\\nto keep free of weeds.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nOranges and Other Citrus Fruits.\\nThe Orange flower perfumes the bower.\\nBreeze, bird and flower confess the hour. Scott.\\nOdors of Orange flower and spice\\nReached them from time to time.\\nLike airs that breathe from paradise\\nUpon a world of crime. Longfellow.\\nHERE is no product of the soil for which Florida is so\\njustly noted as the Orange, and her extensive groves are\\nfar-famed for their thriftiness and beauty and for pro-\\nducing the most deliciously flavored Oranges which\\nreach the markets of the world. There exists in the minds of the\\nmajority, a world of romance and poetry in connection with Orange\\ngrowing, and there is no other one tree or fruit possessing so all-ab-\\nsorbing an interest for the cultivator. It is not at all to be won\\ndered at that all that is romantic or poetic in one s nature is stirred\\nby this queen of fruit trees, for an Orange tree is intrinsically\\nbeautiful at all times. Its form of growth is symmetry perfected,\\nand its crown of never fading verdure is of a dark, deep, rich green.\\nIf the tree never blossomed or bore fruit it would still be second in\\nbeauty to none; but when a sea of foamy white, deliciously fragrant\\nblossoms breaks forth and bespangles every twig and leaf, like a\\nfall of virgin snow, or when, later on, these flowers have been re-\\nplaced by globes of shining gold glenming, singly and in clusters,\\namid the dark green foliage, no more exquisitely beautiful an ob-\\nject ever gladdened mortal eyes.\\nFrom the fact that wild or sour Orange groves and single trees\\nhave been discovered in Florida, many believe them a natural, spon-\\ntaneous production of the soil of the State. But this is a mistake,\\nfor nowhere is the Orange a native of the New World, and only\\n3*", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "where the early Spanish or Portuguese landed and penetrated into\\nthe countryis the Orange to be found growing wild in America. To\\nthe successors of Ponce de Leon, and to the French colony, mas-\\nsacred by Menendez, is undoubtedly due the credit of introducing\\nthe Orange to the coast country of Florida, and the Indians spread\\nit through the interior.\\nWith the exception of two or three Australian and one Japan-\\nese species, there is little doubt but the two or three parent types\\nfrom which havesprung the different varieties of Oranges, Lemons,\\nLimes, Citrons and Shaddocks, are of Asiatic origin; but the early\\nhistory of this fruit is so buried in antiquity as to be almost com-\\npletely lost. Galessio, an earnest naturalist, was the first one to\\ntrace its history with any degree of authenticity. The Arabs, ac\\ncording to this author, penetrating further into the interior of\\nIndia than any foreign nation had done before, discovered the\\nOrange family flourishing there, and they carried the sweet variety\\ninto Persia and Syria; and the bitter sort found its way into Arabia,\\nEgypt, the North of Africa and Spain. From these points the fruit\\ngradually spread to the various parts of the earth where it is now\\ncultivated. The Orange was not known to the ancients either in\\nEurope or Syria, and to the Arabians, whose anxiety, it is said, for\\nthe extension of medical and agricultural knowledge was almost\\nequal to their zeal for the propagation of the Koran, must be\\ngiven the credit of its introduction to the world.\\nComparatively few people are aware of the host of forms of the\\nOrange family (Citrus) that exists. Some idea of the number of\\nthe cultivated varieties, ana the range of differences in size, form,\\ncolor and taste of the fruits, is conveyed by the statement that in\\nthe Histoire Naturelle des Orangers, a folio work by Risso and\\nPoiteau (1818,) there are no less than one hundred and nine plates.\\nThe Orange is noted both for its enormous bearing qualities and\\nfor its remarkable longevity. Wallace mentions a tree in St.\\nMichael s that bore twenty thousand fruits in one crop; and in\\nFlorida, where the oldest trees are but the veriest babies, as it were,\\nthe famous Big Tree oftentimes has ten thousand Oranges at\\nonce. At Versailles a tree known as the Grand Bourbon is still\\ngrowing, though planted in 1421, and the famous tree in the Con-\\nY^nt of St. Sabina, at Rome, is said to be more than six hundred\\n32", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "years old, while, according to the Treasury of Botany, In Cordova,\\nthe noted seat of Moorish grandeur and luxury, in Spain, there are\\nOrange trees still remaining which are considered to be six hund-\\nred or seven hundred years old. Even in England, at Hampton\\nCourt, where the trees are grown under glass, there are several\\nwhich are over three hundred years old.\\nCitrus aurantium, is the type of the Sweet Orange, and from it\\nhave sprung an ever increasing number of more or less distinct\\nvarieties varying in size, appearance, flavor and time of ripening.\\nThe Sour and Bitter-Sweet Oranges are included under C. auran-\\ntlum Bigaradia. The Sour is very sour, and makes a delicious\\nade; the Bitter-Sweet is, as its name implies, bitter and sweet com-\\nbined, and is very refreshing in summer. Its flowers also furnish\\nthe Neroli oil, which is so delicious and costly as a perfume. C.\\naurantium nobilis furnishes the variety known variously as Man-\\ndarin, Tangerine (having a deep, Tomato-colored rind,) Willow-\\nleaved and Kid-glove. The latter name is given because the skin is\\nso loose that it may be removed and the Orange eaten without soil-\\ning one s gloves. The trees are dwarf, with small. Willow-like\\nleaves, and are exceedingly ornamental. C aurantium Bergamium\\nis the true Bergamot. From the rind of its fruit the fragrant Oil\\nof Bergamot is obtained, and the flowers also yield oil. C. decu-\\nmana is represented by the Shaddocks and Grape Fruit. The fruit\\nof the former grow to an immense size, often ten to fourteen\\npounds in weight, and is watery and rather insipid in flavor. The\\nGrape Fruit or Pomelo, is smaller fruited but two or three times\\nthe size of an Orange and greatly relished by all who learn how to\\nproperly eat it. At present it is a much better paying crop than\\nthe Orange. C. medlca cedra is the Citron of commerce. In Flori-\\nda it is grown only as a curiosity, despite the fact that no known\\nreason exists why good citron cannot be grown and prepared here,\\nand that 2,000,000 pounds of it are annually imported into the\\nUnited States. C. medica Limetta furnishes the Limes, of which\\nthere are a number of varieties, and C. Livfionlum the numerous\\nLemons. C Japonica, the Kumquat or Kin Kan, is a delightful\\nlittle dwarf sort, much cultivated in China and Japan, producing\\nfruits about the size of the first joint of the thumb, which are eaten\\nrind and all, and made into sweetmeats by preserving in sugar.", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "C. trifoUata, native of Japan, is a very distinct sort, hardy at\\nleast as far north as New York City, and of great value for hedges,\\nand to bud or graft and dwarf other sorts on.\\nAlthough the oldest city in the United States is located in Flor-\\nida, it is only since the close of the civil war that the great Orange\\nproducing region of the State began to be settled up, and later still\\nbefore attention was turned toward Orange growing. In 1885 the\\nwhole crop of the State amounted to but six hundred thousand\\nboxes, while the crop of 1893 was five million boxes, and there are\\ngroves enough planted to produce in a few years twenty million\\nboxes. Predictions of over-production in the near future are met\\nby the interesting statement that the last crop would only furnish\\none Orange a month to each inhabitant of the United States, while\\na crop of twenty million boxes will furnish only one Orange a week\\nto each.\\nThere are many erroneous impressions concerning the Orange\\nand its growth prevalent among those not familiar with the sub-\\nject. One of these is that flowers and green and ripe fruit, in all\\nstages of development, may be seen on an Orange tree at one and\\nthe same time and at almost any time of the year. Many writers\\nmake such statements; but they are not true, at least in Florida.\\nThe statement is true, however, of the Citron, Lemon and Lime, as\\nthey flower more or less almost every time they make a new growth,\\nwhich is several times a year; but the Orange has a distinct season,\\nFebruary and March, of blooming, the same as the Apple, and if the\\ncrop has not been gathered at that season the trees will show both\\nflowers and ripe fruit. If by some means the first bloom is wholly\\nor partially destroyed, the tree will generally bloom again in June,\\nand if it so chanced that the same tree bloomed the preceding June,\\nIt will present flowers and ripe and green fruit, but not otherwise.\\nAnother is that the Orange will not bear until budded or grafted.\\nProbably at least two-thirds of the bearing groves in the State are\\nseedlings. Budding insures earlier bearing and perpetuates dis-\\ntinct varieties.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nSt. Augustine and the Gardens of the Ponce de Leon.\\nLTHOUGH the developments of the State of Florida date\\nalmost entirely from since the close of the Civil War,\\nstill it contains the oldest city\u00e2\u0080\u0094 St. Augustine\u00e2\u0080\u0094 by forty\\nyears in the United States. This city was founded by\\nPedro Menendez de Aviles, who took possession of the place in the\\nname of Philip II, King of Spain, on September 8th, 1565. As he\\nhad arrived on the coast the 28th day of the preceding month, the\\nday dedicated to Saint Augustine, he called the place Ciudad de\\nSan Augustine in honor of that celebrated Latin Father.\\nYears ago, Harriet Beecher Stowe, in describing St. Augustine,\\nwrote of it: If an old, sleepy, narrow-streeted mediaeval town,\\nwith balconied houses, inner courts, and tesselated floors, had\\nstranded on a beach of the New World, that town would have been\\nSt. Augustine. The description is still a faithful one of the an-\\ncient portions of the town; but much of its quiet and sleepiness has\\nvanished, for within a few years it has developed into a fashionable\\nand famous winter resort. Numerous palatial hotels have sprung\\nup as if by magic, together with scores of modern private winter\\nresidences, and the city now boasts a population of nearly ten\\nthousand, with from forty to fifty thousand winter visitors.\\nWhile at once the oldest and the newest, the two ages of its\\nlife blend in seemingly perfect harmony, and one may aflBliate him-\\nself or herself with either or both as inclination may dictate. For\\nthe essentially fashionable and pleasure-seeking there is the anom-\\naly of a season at its height under skies as fair and amid breezes\\nas balmy as those of June, while the North is clothed with a man-\\ntle of ermine; and for the lover of the antique, the curious and the\\ninteresting, there is an exceptionally rich field for research and\\nsight-seeing. The narrow streets, quaint houses, overhanging bal-\\n35", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "conies, ancient ruins and other cobwebs of antiquity, all remain un-\\ndisturbed and fascinating as ever.\\nThe streets in the old portions of the town are very narrow, one\\nof them Treasury Street\u00e2\u0080\u0094 being but seven feet wide. The first\\nstory walls of many of the houses are built of coquina (a strange\\nshell conglomeration) and the second of wood. The streets have no\\nsidewalks, and in many instances one steps from the front door\\ndirectly i7ito the street. Second-story balconies, overhanging the\\nnarrow streets, are numerous, and where two are exactly opposite\\nthe occupants can almost shake hands across the street. Connected\\nwith many of these houses are gardens of which Sidney Lanier\\ngives this tantalizing glimpse: There are quaint courts enclosed\\nwith jealous high coquma-walls, and giving into rich, cool gardens\\nwhere Lemons, Oranges, Bananas, Japan Plums, Figs, Date Palms\\nand all manner of tropical flowers and greeneries hide from the\\nnortheast winds, and sanctify the old Spanish-built homes.\\nBut it is the gardens of the famous Ponce de Leon Hotel which\\nI particularly wish to describe. Probably every one of my readers\\nhas heard of this wonderful structure, the cost of which ran into\\nthe millions. It is unexcelled by any hotel in this country or\\nEurope, and was pronounced by the Duke of Newcastle the most\\nmagnificent building in the world. To adequately describe it would\\nbe impossible, even if I had the space to command. Happily the\\nstyle of architecture chosen was that of the Spanish Renaissance,\\nso that it harmonizes perfectly with the historical associations of\\nthe old town, and its name was equally happily chosen, commemo-\\nrating as it does the memory of the romantic old Spanish knight\\nwho discovered Florida. The material from which the vast edifice\\nis constructed is coquina mixed with Portland cement not put up\\nin blocks but cast in cement, so that the whole structure is without\\nseam. The composite is of a light mother-of-pearl color, contrast-\\ning with the rich terra-cotta balconies and trimmings of the walls,\\nturrets and towers of the red-tiled roofs.\\nThe hotel is built around three sides of a courtyard one hun-\\ndred and fifty feet square, the fourth side enclosed by a one-story\\nportico through the centre of which a massive gateway gives en-\\ntrance to the courtyard. Inside, the latter is a scene of magic\\nbeauty. In the centre is an elaborate fountain, and flagged walks\\n36", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "winding through a maze of Palms and other tropical plants and\\nfruits, lead to the hotel entrance, which is a broad Spanish arch\\nworthy of a king s palace.\\nCompletely sheltered from the winds by the surrounding walls,\\neverything in the courtyard thrives with tropical luxuriance. Sev-\\neral species of the Date Palm genus (Phoenix) are represented in\\nnoble specimens with spiny fronds several feet in length. To one\\nside of the main walk grows a noble example of the Florida Rubber-\\ntree (Ficus aurea,) twenty or more feet high, with a massive head\\nof the richest green foliage. As a companion on the opposite side\\nis an equally fine Araucaria of striking appearance. A specimen\\nof the Palm Cocos plumosa, fifteen or twenty feet high, spreads\\nout its feathered leaves like giant plumes, and lower-growing fan-\\nleaved Palms are grouped effectively about. Gigantic specimens of\\nthe Century Plant {Agave) occupy positions calculated to best dis-\\nplay their perfect symmetry of growth, and great clumps of Pam-\\npas Grass stand like fountains of green ribbon-like leaves, shooting\\nup feathery plumes as beautiful as silvery spray. The Australian\\nSilk Oak (Grevillea rohusta) arrests attention by the exquisite sil-\\nvery sheen of the under side of its leaves, which are as finely cut\\nand as beautiful as some of the most delicate Ferns. There are Cat-\\ntley Guavas with dainty waxen fruits shining amid evergreen,\\nCamellia-like foliage, and immense specimens of the strikingly\\ncurious and strictly tropical Melon Pawpaw (Carica papaya,)\\nwhile Poinsettias with gleaming scarlet bracts, Russelia juncea\\nfringed with its coral-drops, the Golden Dewdrop (Duranta Plu-\\nmieri) displaying at one and the same time its racemes of lovely\\nForget-me-not like blossoms and clusters of beautiful golden ber-\\nries, Poinciana and Bottle Brush, with their curious and beautiful\\nflowers, help make up this garden which is more Spanish than\\nAmerican.\\nBeneath the shade of some of the taller-growing shrubs are\\nplants of the evergreen Pittosporum tobira trained and clipped\\ninto the forms of chairs and settees absolutely perfect in outline\\nand naturalness of position. There are also specimens of the hand-\\nsome variegated .form of this shrub; and scattered among and be-\\nneath all these trees and shrubs are plants of more humble growth\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094clumps of Coontie (Zamia integrifolia) in fruit, Spider Lilies,\\n37", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "Sanseviera zealanica. Freesias, Petunias, Phlox, Sweet Alyssum,\\nand many more, familiar or otherwise.\\nAlong the low parapet and up the columns of the verandas and\\nportico facing the courtyard, are trained the Malayan Jessamine\\n(Rhyncospermum Jasminoides,) Climbing Fern (Lygodium scan-\\ndens) and Lan tanas (trained to climb,) while high up on the pearl-\\ngrey walls the South American Bignonia venusta hangs out a\\ncrimson banner, and at night the snowy chalices of the Moonflower\\nbid the retiring guest Bona-nox.\\nA lovely scene by day, at night it is one of enchantment. Then\\nevery leaf glistens and every shadow is accentuated beneath the\\nglare of the electric lights, while from the mouths of the heroic-\\nsized metal frogs and turtles grouped around the fountain basin,\\njets of sparkling water fall into the pool below, with a mellow\\ncadence full of unwritten music, and flowers expand\\nThat keep\\nTheir odors to themselves all day.\\nBut when the sunlight dies away.\\nLet the delicious fragrance out\\nTo every breeze that roams about.\\nThe grounds surrounding the hotel are arranged and planted in\\nan equally attractive manner. The walks and many of the beds are\\nbordered by low and closely-clipped hedges of the Red Cedar (Juni-\\nperus virginiana.) The lordly Cabbage Palm has been freely\\nplanted, together with large quantities of the striking appearing\\nSpanish Dagger, the two lending a decidedly tropical aspect to the\\nscene. There are red-barked Eucalyptus trees, Oleanders in single\\nclumps and dense masses, venerable Red Cedars of uncertain age,\\nand over all the sweet breath of the Opoponax {Acacia Fame-\\nsiana.) On the closely cropped lawns fountains send up ceaselessly\\ncolumns of liquid silver or misty spray, while over all bends a sky\\nas blue as Italy s own, and perpetual summer smiles on this garden\\nof never-fading verdure.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nThe Garden and Flowers of the Tampa Bay Hotel.\\nAnd the Jessamine faint, and pure Tuberose,\\nThe sweetest flower for scent that blows\\nAnd all rare blossoms from every clime\\nMake this garden the essence of love sublime\\nHE Tampa Bay Hotel, at Tampa on the vrest coast of\\nFlorida, is in every way as magnificent and interesting\\nas the Ponce de Leon at St. Augustine, and yet as totally\\nunlike it as the imagination can picture so much so\\nthat a visit to either does not render it one whit less desirable to see\\nthe other. But to the true flower lover one interested in trees,\\nshrubbery, vines and plant growth of all kinds\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a visit to the\\nTampa Bay Hotel would be the most interesting, for the grounds\\nare much more extensive than those of the Ponce de Leon, and are\\nbeautifully laid out and stocked with rare and beautiful plants\\nfrom almost every known portion of the globe. A catalogue and\\nmanual of the tropical and semi-tropical fruit and flower plants\\ngrowing in the hotel grounds, shows that of strictly tropical fruits,\\nthirty-four distinct genera are represented, of semi-tropical fruits\\nnineteen, and of ornamentals trees, shrubs, vines, etc. one\\nhundred and sixty genera. As many of these genera are repre-\\nsented by a number of species, it makes a list of considerable\\nlength.\\nThe hotel stands on a rise of ground which slopes gently down\\nto the river s edge, but it is quite impossible to convey in words any\\nadequate idea of how the structure looks. Standing on the bridge\\nover the river which flows between the town and the hotel grounds,\\none beholds, rising from a mass of brilliant flowering shrubbery,\\nPalms and other trees, along massive pile, fashioned from brick\\nand^iron, which grows to immensity as the eye travels over its out-", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "lines. From its flat roofs rise numerous immense silvered domes\\nand Moorish minarets topped with the goldeif star and crescent of\\nthe Orient, all glistening intensely in the brightness of a semi-\\ntropic sun. Galleries, broad and long enough to furnish a loung-\\ning-place for quite a multitude, extend along the east and west\\nfronts, the roofs starting over the third story windows, sloping\\ngently to the outer edges, from which drop huge ornaments in the\\nform of arched and hanging pendants ending in brackets at every\\ncolumn and the walls.\\nExtending on all sides are the ample grounds where are foun-\\ntains, green lawns, flowerbeds, arbors, and gardens in which flour-\\nish the flowers and fruits of the tropics in unwonted luxuriance\\nand pro digal profusion, tlie royal Rose and the poetic Jessamine\\nbreathing forth their rich odors in harmonious companionship with\\nthe brilliant but more plebian Geranium. Along the galleries rare\\nand beautiful vines have woven curtains and draperies with trace-\\nries inimitable, and the green lawn is whitened by the falling petals\\nof the Camellia, the only snow that is ever seen in this fair clime.\\nIn the centre of the lawn, facing the river, is a miniature fort with\\nmounted cannon, Prickly Pear Cactus plants straggling over the\\nstone-work, and a flagstaff that floats the United States flag by day\\nsucceeded by a crescent of electric fire at night, and along the river\\nfront a winding path, shaded by Palm trees, leads to a dainty little\\nboathouse where are all sorts of pleasure craft.\\nPalms enter largely into the ornamentation of the grounds,\\nparticularly the native Cabbage Palm or Palmetto, which has been\\nset out in large numbers and forms a very striking feature in the\\nsurroundings. There are walks wholly bordered on both sides with\\nperfect specimens fifteen to twenty feet tall, the trunks rising up\\nlike the pillars of some vast corridor, and groups at one of the en-\\ntrance gates containing specimens fifty to sixty feet tall and which\\nit required the combined efforts of twelve men to transplant from\\ntheir native woods. There are Cocoanut Palms, small yet, but ex-\\nceedingly beautiful, and various species of the Date Palm genus\\n(Phoenix.) One of the most striking objects is a large circular bed\\nwith a Date Palm in the centre and the balance filled with Poin-\\nsettia pulcherrima. The bluish-green pinnate leaves of the Palm,\\nrising up from and arching over the large terminal bracts of fiery", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "scarlet leaves of the Poinsettia forms a marvelous picture during\\nthe winter months. The Spanish Dagger or Bayonet (Yucca aloi-\\nfolia) is another native plant which has been liberally utilized, es-\\npecially along the river front, and with a striking effect.\\nIn front of one of the galleries an enormous Live Oak spreads\\nafar its giant arms, and in addition to the lovely silvery-grey Span-\\nish Moss which hangs in banners and streamers from its venerable\\nhead, various Air Plants (Tlllandsias) and Orchids have been at-\\ntached to the limbs and become established. Not far from this Oak\\nis a spring from which a little rill courses through the grounds to\\nthe river. The rill banks are clothed with a natural growth of\\nFerns, Wax Myrtles, Saw Palms, etc., and in addition to these have\\nbeen added Spanish Dagger, Bananas, Cannas, Caladiums, Butter-\\nfly Lily (Hcdychium, coronarium) and other moisture-loving plants,\\nforming a real tropical jungle along and through which a path\\nwinds and crosses. The native Swamp Fern (Acrostichum aureum)\\nis a striking feature in this jungle, and would astonish northern\\neyes. It is very stately and showy, with large thick fronds six or\\nseven feet in height. Close by is a clump of Bambusa vulgaris, the\\nlarge unarmed Bamboo of Bengal, towering, like some monster\\nFern, fifty feet in the air. Every cane with its foliage is like an\\nimmense ostrich plume, bending and swaying gracefully in the\\npassing breeze or raging storm.\\nOn the lawn are large Orange trees clothed in emerald green\\nand ornamented with golden globes of lusciousness, bowers enclos-\\ning seats and covered with running Roses, Chinese Hibiscus and\\nPoincianas a blaze of flowers, and numerous other shrubs and trees,\\nincluding Poinsettias, Camellias, the magnificent Royal Poinciana,\\nRoses, Jessamines, Agaves, Rubber-Tree, Acalyphas, Oleanders,\\nPampas Grass and many more; and in the parterre in winter, may\\nbe seen blooming Pinks, in variety, Ageratum, Zinnias, Sweet Alys-\\nsum, Vincas, Phlox Drummondi, Petunias, Pansies, Geraniums,\\nBalsams, Nasturtiums and other favorite garden flowers. Along\\nthe main walk the name of the hotel is cut out of the sod of the\\nlawn in large letters, and filled in with flowering plants; and on\\neach side of the steps leading to the main entrance, is growing a\\nfine specimen of the beautiful Australian Silk Oak.\\nBut the floral display of this famous hostelry is not confined\\n4\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "to the outside. Ascend the broad steps, pass through the mas-\\nsive entrance doors which are ot Spanish Mahogany, highly pol-\\nished and encasing heavy plates of beveled glass, into the rotunda,\\nand a scene of beauty and richness is revealed. It is a grand as-\\nsembly hall seventy-eight feet square and thirty feet from the floor\\nto the ceiling. Thirteen marble columns support a balcony that\\nlooks over from the second floor, and grouped about these, in\\ncostly jardinieres, are rare and beautiful foliage plants. There are\\nmajestic Palms, their feathery fronds arching overhead, gorgeous-\\nleaved Crotons whose tints would put to shame the autumn color-\\nings of northern forests, filmy Ferns and stately Dragon-trees,\\namong the latter a specimen of Draccena fragrans eight or nine\\nfeet tall, and having perfect leaves from the soil up.\\nA grand hallway extends from north to south no less than\\nseven hundred feet, passing through the rotunda. Wandering\\ndown this hallway one finally comes to the gracefully rounding\\ncurve of the solarium leading to the grand dining hall. Here\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in\\nthe solarium\u00e2\u0080\u0094 another delightful scene is revealed. A fiood of soft\\nlight falls through scores of windows on either hand, and in front\\nof every window is either an antique and curious little table or an\\nequally curious old chair, holding a jardiniere containing a beauti-\\nful fiowering or foliage plant. Among them are exquisite Ferns,\\nvari-colored Crotons, Eucharis with snowy chalices, Araucarias,\\nColeus, Salvias and Sansevieras. At intervals are bays and groups\\nof slender columns supporting the roof, and about these are massed\\nPalms and gorgeous foliage plants, forming fairy-like bowers and\\ncharming nooks in which to linger, to rest or read or enjoy an unin-\\nterrupted iete-a-tete.\\nIn the furnishings of the hotel, antique, curious and historical\\nfurniture, rare old cabinets, costly brica-brac and beautiful etch-\\nings and paintings enter largely\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the tout ensemble iorming a truly\\nAlhambric picture in the most romantic section of prosaic America.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XI.\\nWhere May and December are Wed.\\nThere are flowers, flowers, flowers.\\nBlooming in our woods to-day.\\nIn our Florida December\\nAs they bloom in Northern May;\\nRed for love of a true brother.\\nWhite for lives unstained and true.\\nBlue, true hearts to one another\\nNation s hues. Red, White and Blue. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Anna Perkins.\\nURINGr the vrinter months there are less wild flowers to\\nbe seen in Florida than in other seasons of the year, but\\nthe true flower lover returning from a stroll through\\nthe dry Pines woods, a trip around the lake shores and\\ncreek banks or a walk in the densely shaded hammocks, may\\nbring back a respectable sized bouquet made up of a considerable\\nnumber of distinct varieties and species of these wildlings.\\nCarping critics often cast a slur upon the flowery title of the\\nState and spurn its claim of being the Land of Flowers. It is\\ntrue that the State presents no such wide reaches, vast masses and\\ngreat profusion of brilliant colored flowers as are seen on the Texas\\nprairies and in some portions of California, where often acres upon\\nacres are thickly covered with one species of flower until the eye\\nbecomes almost wearied with their brilliancy, and prodigality be-\\ngets indifference. One of the chief charms of the woodland beauties\\nof our Northern States, is their comparative rarity, and it is much\\nthe same in this State with the majority of our wildlings. A\\nhurried tour through Florida by boat and rail, especially in winter,\\nwill give but a very limited idea of the rich flora and semi-tropical\\nvegetation to be found in the various portions of so extended a\\ncountry as this.\\nThere are doubtless less wild flowers here in December than\\nany other month, yet the words of the verse at the head of this\\nchapter are literally true, as I shall endeavor to show; and I think\\na bouquet may be easily arranged which, in beauty and variety,\\nwill rival the best productions of a Northern May.\\n43", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "Of Violets there are four distinct species, blooming not only in\\nDecember, but through all the winter months. Viola palmata is\\na beautiful large blue or purple Violet often found growing in\\nhigh, dry Pine woods, but more often on ground ranging between\\nthe high and low. The common blue Violet (V. cucullata,) so uni-\\nversal in the North, is common in hammock lands, while V.\\nlancGolata and V. primulcefolia, two white species, are often found\\ngrowing together and very abundant near streams, lakes or ponds.\\nA peculiarity of the Violets is that they blossom during the warm\\nseason without showing any colored petals, but have a green calyx,\\nwith stamen and pistils, and perfect their seeds.\\nAnother flower which is produced throughout the winter\\nmonths is Oldenlandia rotundifoUa, a Southern cousin of the\\ndainty Northern Bluet or Innocence. It has trailing stems, with\\nsmall roundish leaves, spreading over the ground like a mat and\\nproducing a great many delicate, pure white flowers, with four\\npetals forming a cross about half an inch in diameter. It, too, lays\\naside its white petals during the w^arm season, producing only\\ninconspicuous green flowers, with the seed capsules mostly under\\nthe leaves. The dwarf Butterwort {Pingulcula pumila) appears\\nearly in December and is abundant all winter. Its flowers vary\\nfrom purple to nearly white, from one-half to three-quarters of an\\ninch in diameter, and borne on a scape three to six inches high,\\nascending from a cluster of leaves. The lower lobe of the corolla\\nhas a Violet-like spur near its base. It is abundant in the grass\\nof low Pine woods, especially near streams or ponds. P. elatior is a\\nlarge purple species, flowers an inch wide, borne on scapes eight to\\ntwelve inches high. Still more beautiful is P. lutea. This is some-\\ntimes called Alligator Lettuce, and the curious tuft of yellow-green\\nleaves resembles some sorts of Lettuce. From the centre shoot up\\nslender scapes six to twelve inches high, each bearing a flower one\\nto one and one-half inches wide, gleaming like burnished gold.\\nThat strange, almost uncanny plant commonly known as In-\\ndian-pipe {MonotTOipa uniflora,) which at the North blooms in\\nAugust or September, flowers here in November and December. It\\nis quite common in the hammocks, growing (parasitically) on\\nroots or decaying vegetable matter. It grows generally in clusters,\\nseveral stems near together and six to ten inches high. The whole", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "plant, stems, leaves and flowers, is pure white or pinkish, semi-\\ntransparent and fragile appearing, like some species of the Mush-\\nroom family. The straight stem bears scale-like leaves and is sur-\\nmounted by a drooping pipe-like head which is a regular flower\\nwith calyx, corolla, stamens, pistils and numerous seeds. As the\\nplant becomes older the head rises erect and the whole plant turns\\nblack. Near streams and ponds yellow Coreopsis and the blue Lo-\\nbelia glandulosa are occasionally found during most of the winter,\\nand Chrysopsis and Hieraciums often linger on the uplands till\\nafter the new year commences.\\nAt this season it is sometimes hard distinguishing which be-\\nlongs to the old year and which to the new. Our lovely Yellow\\nJessamine (Oelsemlum sempervirens,) which is in the full splen-\\ndor of its golden glory in the month of February, I have found\\nexpanding some of its flowers as early as the eighth of December;\\nbut the winter was an unusually warm one. If there has been no\\nuntimely frost, a moonlight night or the early morning hours will\\nreveal the curtains of vines, which are looped from tree to tree and\\nbush to bush along the river and lake banks, bespangled with the\\nsnowy chalices of the Moonflower (Ipomcea Bona-nox.) Just now,\\ntoo, the Mistletoe is in full perfection, its milky-white, pearl-like\\nberries gleaming amidst its peculiar yellowish-green foliage; and\\nthe coral beads of the Holly burn like fire in their setting of deep-\\nest, darkest green, spiny leaves. Last December a botanist corres-\\npondent, residing in another portion of the State, observed, besides\\nthose I have named, twenty-six other distinct species of wild flow-\\ners in bloom. This is certainly a very respectable showing for the\\nmonth when there is the greatest dearth of flowers everywhere.\\nPoets are inspired by their surroundings, and the songs they\\nsing are attuned in harmony with what they themselves have seen\\nand know of nature. Therefore northern poets sing of springtime\\nas the season of flowers, of hope and promise, and of the autumn\\nas the season of the sere and yellow leaf. A gifted writer iu this\\nState has said that had Bryant been born and lived in Florida in-\\nstead of Massachusetts, he would never have said of autumn:\\nThe melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year.\\nOf wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere.\\n43", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "And that had Thomas Hood been born and lived In Florida instead\\nof the British Isles, he would never have moaned of November like\\nthis:\\nNo sun, no moon, no morn, no noon.\\nNo dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day.\\nWhen we raise a crop of Florida poets, says the same writer,\\ntheir songs of autumn will be songs of joy.\\nThat future crop of poets will not have to depend upon the\\nwild woods alone for inspiration at this season of the year-, for\\nmany of the most desirable garden flowers, ornamental trees,\\nshrubs and vines now make a grand show of blossoms and foliage.\\nTecoma sta7is is in the very zenith of its glory during the first half\\nof December, there are Roses in profusion and perfection, Lantanas\\nand Chinese Hibiscus striving to outdo each other, Oleanders that\\nrival the Roses in form and color, and Jessamines and Honey-\\nsuckles shedding their sweetness abroad in the garden.\\nI feel that I cannot draw this chapter to a close in a more fitting\\nmanner than by quoting the following lines written by a Northern\\nlady while spending her first winter in Florida, and by heartily\\nsecondiug the invitation voiced in the closing stanza:\\nFair Florida in Flora s bowers\\nVine covered, bell-like blossoms swing;\\nSweet is the air with myriad flowers.\\nSweet is the song the mock-birds sing.\\nYour graceful Palms wave in the air,\\nFlame-tipt your Lilies rare unfold.\\nYour luscious fruits hang tempting, fair,\\nSun-lit your globes of orange gold.\\nBananas stately bow their heads\\nTo offer fruits without compare;\\nPineapples from their spiny beds\\nLift nectar that the gods might share.\\nCome from your northern cities grand.\\nLeave care behind to rest awhile.\\nTo dream of heaven in this fair land\\nAnd bask m nature s loving smile.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nLiving and Locating in Florida,\\nWho that hath reason and his smell,\\nWould not midst Rose and Jasmine dwell;\\nEncompass d round with such delight.\\nTo ear, nose, touch, the taste and sight.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Cowley.\\nHAT an eager and growing interest in the South has\\nsprung up among all classes homeseekers, capitalists,\\nmanufacturers, merchants and laborers throughout\\nthe North is apparent to all who have watched the press,\\nparticularly during the past year. And no State in the whole South\\nis receiving so large a share of the interest and investigations of\\nearnest homeseekers as is Florida. Indeed, remarkable interest in\\nthis State began more than a decade ago, before attention was\\nturned to hardly any other section of the South, and how rapid\\nand remarkable Florida s development has been the last census re-\\nturns show.\\nA comparison of this State with Illinois shows the following\\nstartling results: Between 1880 and 1890 Florida gained in popula-\\ntion 49 per cent., while Illinois gained but 24 per cent. In wealth,\\nFlorida gained 150 per cent., and Illinois lost 8 per cent. The per\\ncapita wealth of Florida increased 71 per cent. In Illinois it de-\\ncreased 26 per cent. In 1880 the average man in Illinois was worth\\nover twice as much as the average man in Florida; but in 1890 the\\naverage Floridian was richer than the average Illinoisian. As far\\nas per centage is concerned the population of Florida is increasing\\nnearly twice as fast as any State east of the Mississippi.\\nAt the close of the Civil War at least nine-tenths of the area of\\nFlorida which is adapted to the production of Oranges and kindred\\nfruits, was an unsettled, undeveloped and almost totally unknown", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "wilderness, to be reached only by private conveyance. In 1885 the\\nOrange crop of the State amounted to but 600,000 boxes, while the\\ncrop of 1894 was at least 5,000,000 boxes. Last year the Florida\\nPineapple crop amounted to from 50,000 to 60,000 crates, the year\\nbefore that only 35,000 crates, and in 1892 only 20,000 crates. In one\\nyear alone the value of the Pineapple crop increased from $147,000 to\\n$600,000. And Spruce-Pine land, on the Indian River, nearly value-\\nless for other purposes than Pineapple growing, which in 1880\\ncould be bought for $1.25 per acre, now commands from $125 to $300,\\nor more, per acre. The development in truck-gardening has been\\nequally great, the growing of Tomatoes alone for Northern markets\\nhaving assumed tremendous proportions. The production of To-\\nbacco is a lusty infant industry which shows every indication of\\ndeveloping gigantic proportions; the discovery of phosphate opened\\nup a mine of untold wealth to the State, while the fish, oyster, tur-\\ntle and sponge industries of the Florida east and west coast an-\\nnually amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and are yet\\nin their infancy.\\nAs a great natural sanitarium alone, Florida s importance can-\\nnot be overestimated, for it is truly\\nThe land of the south wind, whose sweet-scented breath\\nBears freely to thousands long respites from death.\\nConsumption a disease more deadly than cholera, typhus,\\nsmallpox and yellow fever combined kills 100,000 persons every\\nyear in the United States, and it is safe to say that of these at least\\ntwo-thirds would live out natural lives if they came to this\\nState early enough and remained the year around. But too often\\nthe coming is put off until too late, being finally embraqed as a last\\nresort, and in a good many instances life has been lengthened sev-\\neral years when to have remained at the North would have meant\\ncertain death within six months. But this matchless climate\\ncannot make new lungs where none exist, nor build up depleted\\nsystems in which all recuperative powers are forever deadened.\\nBut, despite the fact that so many incurables come here to\\ndie, statistics prove that the death rate in Florida is lower,\\naccording to population, than in any other State in the Union. It\\nis amusing to have residents of New England anxiously inquire\\n48", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "if Florida isn t dreadfully sickly and the climate fatal, when\\nwe find, by turning to the census of 1890, that the death rate\\nfor Florida during that year was only 10.60 per thousand, while\\nthat of Massachusetts was 20.15, about twice as high. Of the\\nmaladies indigenous to the State, nearly all are of malarial\\norigin, and of those the types are exceedingly mild and easily\\nsubdued, the pernicious and malignant cases being exceptional\\nand usually easy to trace to a sufficient and preventable cause.\\nWherever cistern, instead of well, water is used, all mala-\\nrial tendencies disappear if the location is otherwise healthy. So\\nfar as fevers are concerned, during the census year of 1890, only 460\\npeople died from fever of all kinds in the State. To offset this, the\\nclimate is finely adapted to the curing of a number of diseases, par-\\nticularly those of the nasal cavities, the throat, lungs and heart,\\nalso kidney and rheumatic afflictions.\\nAs for children, from babies up, it is a perfect paradise. There\\nis scarcely a day in the whole year when they may not be in the\\nopen air, and very rarely are troubled with colds or coughs.\\nMeasles, chicken pox and whooping cough are modified to a degree\\nthat renders them quite harmless when they do appear, which is\\nvery seldom, while those dread diseases of childhood, diphtheria,\\nscarlet fever and croup, are happily unknown. At least one physi-\\ncian has made the prediction that Florida will become a place of\\nrefuge to which parents will bring their children i7i the summer to\\nescape the dangers of cholera infantum, and his opinion is backed\\nup by statistics that none can question. The census of 1890 shows\\nthat in proportion to population the mortality among children is\\n26 per cent, higher in Ohio, 40 per cent, higher in Pennsylvania, 60\\nper cent, higher in Illinois, and more than twice as high in New\\nYork as in Florida. The climate is equally conducive to longevity\\namong the old, owing to its mildness and equability, which admits\\nof living so much in the open air, and the serenity of a life free from\\ndeleterious excitements.\\nLife in Florida is unconventional to a degree, and its placidity\\nand freedom thoroughly takes possession of nearly everyone who\\nlives in the State any length of time. The piazza is the sitting-\\nroom and with many families the dining-room also fully three-\\nfourths of the year, Windows and doors are almost constantly", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "open, admitting the health-giving air, as it is swept throught the\\nbalsamic Pine forests. Few who leave the State are able to re-\\nmain away permanently, but eventually wander back. There is a\\ncharm or a magic in the atmosphere which is well-nigh irresist-\\nible, and once felt is never forgotten.\\nBut I would not be understood as conveying the idea that\\nFlorida does not possess drawbacks and disadvantages, for it does.\\nThere is no Eden in this world, and the inhabitants of Florida have\\nobstacles to meet and surmount. But to those who wish to\\nmake permanent, prosperous homes, I sincerely believe Florida\\noffers greater inducements and less serious obstacles than any State\\nin the Union. Nowhere else can living expenses be reduced to so\\nlow a minimum, the soil responds generously to the earnest atten-\\ntion of the husbandman, and the most humble, if industrious, may\\nexclaim with the poet:\\nThat hut is mine; that cottage half embower d\\nWith modest Jessamine.\\nLocating in Florida is a matter of serious importance, and on\\nwhich success or failure may entirely depend. A volume could be\\nwritten on the subject and yet it may all be expressed in a few\\nwords. Select a healthy locality, fertile soil, as good frost protec-\\ntion as possible, and close proximity to transportation. On the first\\nthree points, a person not familiar with the peculiar indications of\\nthe State, may be roped in by unprincipled parties. Speaking\\nfrom the experience of several years residence in the State and ex-\\ntensive travel over it, I would not locate near large rivers, on\\naccount of the swamps bordering most of them; I would not locate\\non either coast, for the soil is mostly very poor, at certain seasons\\nthe sea winds are high, constant and very disagreeable, and at times\\nthe mosquitoes and sand flies are voracious and numberless as\\nthe sands of the seashore I would not locate anywhere in the per-\\nfectly level sections of the State, because I should expect the monot-\\nonous outlook to kill me; but 1 would locate on high, rolling land\\nsome miles from the coast, not over two miles from a railroad\\nhaving good connections North and South and to the coast. In\\nshort, if I had it to do over again, I would locate just where I am.\\n50", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "JESSAMINE, PASCO COUNTY, FLORIDA.\\nITS LOCATION, AND SOME OF THE ATTRACTIONS AND ADVANTAGES\\nOF THE REGION FOR INTENDING SETTLERS.\\nASCO is one of the Gulf Counties of South Fiorida, i. e.,\\nits western boundary is the Gulf of Mexico. Hernando\\ncounty bounds it on the north and Hillsborough county\\non the South. Jessamine is situated in the midst of\\nwhat is known as the Fort Dade country, a section embracing an\\narea of some ten or twelve miles square in the eastern portion of\\nthe county. The topography of this region is greatly diversified,\\nbeing entirely different from that of almost all other parts of South\\nFlorida. It is a country abounding in high hills, rolling lands,\\nbubbling springs, crystal lakes and running brooks. The eye is not\\nwearied by monotonous stretches of low lands covered with nothing\\nbut interminable pine forests, and to the flat portions of the State,\\nwhere deep and glaring sand seriously interferes with pedestrian\\nexercise, and makes driving a task instead of a pleasure, the noble\\nhills crowned with giant trees clad in richest verdure, and the firm,\\nhard roads of this region form a welcome and pleasant contrast.\\nPeople from hilly or mountainous regions of the North are often\\nrendered homesick and disheartened by the flat as a pancake\\nlocalities of the State, but invariably go into raptures over the pine\\nand oak clad hills and fertile valleys of this section. Visitors from\\nthe central and eastern parts of the State cannot get over their\\nastonishment that such a unique and beautiful region exists in the\\nState, while other residents who have not seen for themselves refuse\\nto believe that we have hills 200 and 300 feet in elevation, and crys-\\ntal springs breaking out of steep hillsides, and escaping in singing\\nbrooks which go flashing and sparkling over miniature cascades\\nand through edying pools, along ravines and glens of the most\\nromantic beauty, rich with growths of semi-tropical verdure.", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "One of the most important advantages of this region is the char-\\nacter of the most of the soil, which is not only among the most fer-\\ntile in the State, but of a distinct character for South Florida, be-\\ning equally adapted for both fruit raising and general farming.\\nIn some sections of the State little besides Oranges can be raised,\\nand in others nothing but Pineapples; but in this section one can\\neasily make a good living by general farming, while he is bringing\\nhis grove into bearing, an advantage of incalculable value which\\nshould not be overlooked. Rye, Oats, Corn, Rice, Sea Island Cot-\\nton, Peanuts, Tobacco, Irish and Sweet Potatoes, Sugar Cane, Ar-\\nrow-Root, Chufas, Cassava, Indigo, Castor Beans, Cow Peas, Millet,\\nTeosinte and other forage, and nearly the entire list of vegetables\\nand various other products, may be successfully grown here, and\\nby the use of less fertilizer than would be required in ninety-nine\\none-hundredths of the remainder of South Florida.\\nNo other section of the State offers greater, and few equal, ad-\\nvantages for the culture of Oranges and other Citrus fruits (Lem-\\nons, Limes, Citrons, Shaddocks and Grape Fruit or Pomelo.) And\\nnowhere in the State can groves be brought into bearing at less ex-\\npense for fertilizing. Some of the few early settlers of this section\\nselected choice bodies of land on which they reared the finest\\nOrange groves to full bearing without the application of a particle\\nof fertilizer, a fact totally discredited by the majority of the inhab-\\nitants of Florida. Some of these trees are forty and fifty years old,\\nand yearly increase in bearing surface and productiveness. Other\\nfruits which may be successfully raised here are Bananas, Pineap-\\nples, (under a simple brush shelter,) Guavas, (both the common and\\nCattley varieties,) Figs, Mulberries, Plums, (native and Japanese,)\\nPeaches, LeConte and Keiffer Pears, Pomegranates, Grapes, Loquat\\nor Japan Medlar, {Eriobotrya Japonica,) Cayenne or Surinam\\nCherry, (Eugenia Mitchelli,) Downy Myrtle. (Myrtus tomentosa,)\\nJapan and native Persimmons, Dates, Avocado or Alligator Pear,\\n{Persea gratissima,) Pecans, Japan Giant Chestnuts, Olives and\\nStrawberries. Many of the strictly tropical fruits may also be suc-\\ncessfully raised if one will go to the slight trouble of protecting\\nthem against occasional frosts which are mostly of a light nature.\\nOne of the most important considerations when locating in\\nFlorida, is immunity from frequent and disastrous frosts. The so-", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "called frost-line is a myth, which exists only in the vocabulary\\nof the wily land agent. There is no habitable portion of the main-\\nland of Florida which is not visited by frost at intervals of greater\\nor less duration; but there are favored localities, where, for some\\nnatural reason water protection or elevation immunity from\\ndamaging frost exists to a marked degree. And this is such a local-\\nity, owing to its remarkable elevation. It lies just below latitude\\n28M degrees, being farther south than Sanford and Orlando (Orange\\ncounty,) and Is the highest land on this parallel and gets the full\\nbenefit of the Gulf and Ocean breezes crossing from west to east\\nand east to west. It is in reality an area of high table land and\\nhills, from which the water flows in nearly all directions. Owing\\nto this high elevation and the warm character of the soil, frost\\nof a serious nature rarely falls here. Often a sharp frost visits the\\nlower lying lands in the same parallel in the central and eastern\\nparts of the State, when none whatever is seen here; and also on\\nnumerous occasions frost has done serious damage fifty, one hun-\\ndred, and even one hundred and fifty miles farther south, but little\\nor none here\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all owing to elevation. When a serious freeze (the\\ntail-end of a Dakota blizzard,) like that of 86, or December 29, 18f)4,\\ncomes, these favored localities suffer too, though in a less degree.\\nAnother, and even more important consideration, is that of\\nhealthfulness. There is not a healthier location in the State than\\nthis one. The reasons for this are simple. The elevation is so great\\nthat it may reasonably be said to be above the malarial line. Then\\nthere are no swamps, Cypress ponds or sluggish rivers with\\nswampy banks to breed miasma. Instead, the face of the country\\nis made up of high hills and beautifully rolling lands of a sandy,\\nporous nature, with clear, crystal lakes smiling in the valleys. The\\nexcellent character of the well water is undoubtedly a potent fac-\\ntor in the healthfulness of this section. The water is clear, pure\\nand delightful, compared with that of most sections of the State.\\nBut it is doubtless better to use cistern water everywhere in the\\nSouth. It is now generally admitted that malarial trouble arises\\nmore from water drank than from the miasmatic exhalations in-\\nhaled. Exceptionally sickly localities in the South have speedily\\nbecome exceptionally healthy when spring and well water has been\\ndiscarded for cistern or artesian. A physician who has resided\\nS3", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "here for over forty years engaged in Orange culture has pub-\\nlished a certificate that this region may be said to be almost per-\\nfectly free from malaria. Throat and lung complaints and all\\nspecific contagious diseases are unknown, as also are chills and\\nfever. In this climate the liver Is apt to become sluggish at times,\\nresulting in biliousness, which, however, is easily prevented or\\ncontrolled. This is actually almost the only form of sickness to\\ncontend with here. The children here furnish all the proof neces-\\nsary to establish the healthfulness of this locality. They are\\nbright, active, strong and healthy, go bare-footed and manj of\\nthem bare-headed almost every day in the year, coming as near\\nto raising themselves as is possible anywhere.\\nStill another consideration, and one not suflQciently pondered\\nor understood by the majority of Northerners, and which we have not\\nthe space to fully explain, is the very small number of negroes to\\nbe found not only in this immediate locality, but in the entire\\ncounty and surrounding country. What few there are here are\\nmostly of superior character and well behaved, the majority of\\nthem owning farms and some of them Orange groves. The race\\nproblem is a serious one\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^oiy serious is known only to those who\\nlive in sections of the South where the colored people swarm.\\nIn addition to this being a peculiarly favored section for the\\nprosecution of both agriculture and horticulture, stock does excep-\\ntionally well for Florida. Actual experiments have proved that\\nfine pastures may be made here, and, in consequence, plenty of rich\\nmilk and butter produced. As for poultry, there is no spot on the\\nface of the earth where hens, chickens, turkeys and ducks may be\\nmore easily and successfully reared. A certain little woman at our\\nelbow points with pardonable pride to her record of one year, which\\nis 100 chickens raised out of 102 hatched.\\nTo sum up, this section possesses the combined advantages of\\nbeautiful and diversified scenery, rich and fertile soil adapted to\\nboth agriculture and horticulture, elevation, which is the surest\\nprotection for crops against cold, healthfulness, good water and\\nfreedom from an objectionable class of people. More than ten\\nyears ago the State Bureau of Immigration said of this section that\\nno other in the State offers greater attraction or variety for a res-\\nidence or advantages for the successful prosecution of agriculture", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "and horticulture, and that transportation, enterprise, industry\\nand immigration will soon make it one of the wealthiest, most\\nprosperous and desirable portions of the State. When that was\\nwritten there was no means of reaching this section except by pri-\\nvate conveyance. Now it may be entered over the lines of three\\nrailroads. Many settlers have come in and located after viewing its\\nsuperior advantages; but it has never been advertised, capital has\\nnot yet found it out, and consequently the most peerless section of\\nthe State for permanent homes remains comparatively unknown.\\nHad it received one-quarter of the advertising which the Indian\\nRiver and some other sections of the State have, it would to-day be\\nentirely settled up with a happy, prosperous people. We have been\\nin nearly every part of the State, but have yet to see a section\\nwhich, in our honest estimation, combines so many attractions and\\nadvantages as this.\\nJessamine and its Location.\\nAs has already been stated, Jessamine is in the midst of this\\npre-eminently desirable section of Florida. Its location is an ex-\\nceptionally beautiful and advantageous one for a colony or settle-\\nment. Mirror Lake, an almost circular sheet of water of mirror-\\nlike beauty, and about one hundred acres in extent, forms its cen-\\ntre. From the shores the land rises beautifully, up through rich\\nhammock to pine land until, at a distance of from 60 to 80 rods\\nfrom the lake shores, it ends in an undulating plateau elevated from\\n70 to 125 feet higher than the waters of the lake. A street run\\naround the lake on the brow of this encircling plateau would be\\nabout three miles in extent, and from almost every rod of its length\\nthe surface of the lake could be seen flashing far below. If houses\\nwere built on every acre bordering this street, almost every house\\ncould be seen from all the others. This conveys an idea of how\\nsightly the situation is, and how elevated the land is above the sur-\\nface of the lake. It is in reality a vast natural amphitheatre, the\\nlake forming the pit, the sides of which only need the hand of man\\nto be transformed into smiling fruit orchards and luxuriant truck\\npatches. And there are thousands of surrounding acres adapted\\nfor the same purposes.\\n55 j", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "All about here are locations where the most beautiful homes\\nimaginable may be made. Close by is another and larger lake\\nwhich may be sufficiently lowered, at a trifling expense, to reclaim\\nmany acres of deep, pure muck of inexhaustible fertility\u00e2\u0080\u0094 muck\\nwhich produces such Sugar Cane as the Louisiana planters never\\ndreamed of. Land is still cheap and may be purchased at ridicu-\\nlously low figures in comparison with prices for poorer lands in\\nother portions of the State. There is no better location than this\\nfor some capitalist or company of capitalists to invest in and open\\nup to settlers.\\nJessamine\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ?-y/iic^ should not he confounded with a little sta-\\ntion of the same name on the South Florida Railroad, in Orange\\nCounty\u00e2\u0080\u0094 is a money order post office and express office, and has\\nmail service twice a day. It is located one and one-half miles from\\nChipco station on the Sanford St. Petersburg Railroad. It is\\nonly one mile to the nearest point on the railroad, where a depot\\nwill be built and named Jessamine. A. wire will also eventually be\\nrun to Jessamine proper, giving telegraphic communication. Two\\nsaw mills\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one a mile and the other a mile and a half distant\u00e2\u0080\u0094 fur-\\nnish both rough and dressed lumber at lowest prices. School three-\\nquarters of a mile distant.\\nDade City, the county seat, is six and one-half miles distant,\\nlocated on two railroads\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Florida Central and Peninsular, the\\ngreat trunk line of the State, and the South Florida Branch of the\\nSavannah, Florida and Western Railroad. Dade City boasts sev-\\neral stores, a flourishing bank, court house, jail, a fine graded\\nschool and churches.\\nThe Sanford and St. Petersburg Railroad (formerly known as\\nthe Orange Belt,) gives the Jessamine region an outlet north and\\nsouth. It is about 150 miles in length, Sanford on the St. John s\\nRiver being its northern terminus, and St. Petersburg, on the Gulf\\ncoast, its southern, while Jessamine is almost exactly half way be-\\ntween these termini. No other road in the State makes so many\\nconnections with other roads and steamer lines, giving exceptional\\nfacilities for reaching any section of the State. At Sanford con-\\nnections are made with the Clyde s St. John s River steamers, the\\nJ. T. K. W. R y, and the South Florida R y; at Paola with the\\nTavares branch of the J. T. K. W. R y; at two points with the\\n56", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Florida Midland R y; at Toronto with a branch of the F. C. P.\\nR y; at two points with the Tavares Gulf R y; at Lacoochee, nine\\nmiles from Jessamine, with the main line of the Florida Central\\nPeninsular R y; at Macon, eight miles from Jessamine, with the\\nSouth Florida Branch of the S. F. W. R y (also a through line to\\nthe North,) and at St. Petersburg with steamers for Tampa, Port\\nTampa, Manatee River points, Key West, Havana, Mobile and New\\nOrleans.\\nAt Sanford, St. Petersburg and at Tarpon Springs (about half\\nway between Jessamine and St. Petersburg,) are ice factories, which\\ninsures getting the luxury of ice at lowest rates because of compe-\\ntition. Delicious fish and oysters are cheaply obtained from St.\\nPetersburg and other Gulf stations along the S. St. P. Railway.\\nThese are luxuries more or less unknown to most interior points,\\nfrom lack of railway connection.\\nFrom Jessamine to the Gulf of Mexico is about twenty-six\\nmiles in an air line, just far enough away to rob the sea winds of\\ntheir harshness and to impregnate them with the resinous exhala-\\ntions of the intervening Piue forests just far enough away to miss\\nall the disagreeable features of the coast, which are rife at certain\\nseasons, and yet near enough to visit it in its delightful moods, for\\nrest and recreation.\\nOne of Jessamine s most valued blessings is remarkable and al-\\nmost complete immunity from mosquitoes. We never see one in\\nthe daytime, and often not a hundred during a whole season. When\\nthere are any nights, they do not swarm, but appear singly or iu\\ntwos or threes, and screens will keep them out as at the North.\\nThey never interfere with sitting on the piazza nights throughout\\nthe summer. This is in marked contrast to many sections of tbe\\nState where Cypress swamps, shallow ponds and ditches offer con-\\nvenient breeding places, and on the coast at certain seasons of the\\nyear they are simply terrific. Neither do we have sanu flies, which\\nare another coast pest at certain seasons.\\nThere are no negroes nearer than three miles away, where there\\nis a small settlement of colored people who own their homes and\\nare perfectly peaceable. Not too far away to employ them as\\nlaborers, but far enough to escape all the objectionable features\\nconnected with them as a people.", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "Owing to the exceptional elevation and consequent purity of\\nair, no better site for a sanitarium can be found than right here.\\nSuch an establishment could be much more economically built and\\nconducted here than in any of the Florida cities, and naturally\\nwould be sought by those in search of health and rest instead of\\nsocial excitement. A small hotel or boarding house would doubt-\\nless do exceedingly well if properly managed and advertised, for\\nthousands yearly visit the State who cannot afford to pay the exor-\\nbitant rates charged for board in the cities and large villages, and\\nare looking for some such quiet retreat.\\nThose looking for locations for quiet winter, or all the year\\naround, homes, will do well to investigate our claims for this par-\\nticular location. Persons in the North earning salaries above\\nactual living expenses, can buy some land here cheap, have it\\ncleared and planted to Oranges, etc., and cared for each year at\\nmoderate expense, and not move here until the trees are in bearing,\\nor nearly so. This is much the best plan for those who haven t\\nenough capital to warrant coming and making groves themselves.\\nIt is really the most economical and easiest plan in many cases. As\\nin all new and as yet thinly populated countries, the demand for\\nlaborers is limited and confined largely to manual work on farms\\nand in Orange groves.\\nAs stated on page 56, there is no better location in the State\\nthan this for some capitalist or company of capitalists to invest in\\nand open up to settlers. As a site for a model community, it is an\\nexceptional one. Nature has done more than her share, and man\\ncan easily do the rest.\\nThe undersigned stand ready to give any information in their\\npossession, or to lend any assistance possible to anyone who maybe\\ninterested in this location as a place of residence or investment in\\nany way.\\nPike Ellsworth,\\nJessamine,\\nPasco Co.,\\nFlorida.", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Photographs of Florida Flowers, Fruits and Scenes.\\nHILE vivid and truthful descriptions give a more or less\\nreal conception of the subjects under consideration,\\nwhen excellent photographs are combined with the de-\\nscriptions, a more full and certain knowledge is ob-\\ntained than is possible in any other way except by a visit to and\\na personal inspection of the scenes depicted. All who are in any\\nway interested in Florida will find in good photographs valuable\\nassistance in forming a correct idea of the scenery and products of\\nthe State. In the past we have received frequent inquiries for\\nFlorida views, and to supply this demand we have employed the\\nservices of one of the finest artists in the South, to prepare a series\\nof photos of the most characteristic representatives of Florida\\nflowers, fruits and scenery. These pictures are thoroughly first-\\nclass in every respect, representing the highest degree of photo-\\ngraphic art. They are the large Boudoir size, mounted on heavy\\npanel cards, gold-edged, with the title printed underneath. Many\\nof them are exquisite subjects for artists to paint from, while all\\nare invaluable in forming an album of Florida views.\\nPrices, postpaid, 25 cents each; 6 for $1.35; or 12 for $2.60.\\nNo. 1. ViNECLAD, Jessamine\\nGardens, Fla.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The first build-\\ning\u00e2\u0080\u0094a cottage\u00e2\u0080\u0094 erected at Jessa-\\nmine. Complet ely embowered in\\nvines and has been pronounced\\na veritable artist s dream. A\\npicture which delights everyone.\\nNo. 2. One of the Approaches\\nTO Jessamine Gardens.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 An en-\\nchanting bit of forest road, lined\\nwith exceptionally fine specimens\\nof the Saw Palm or Palmetto.\\nVery tropical appearing.\\nNo. 3. Mirror Lake, Jessamine,\\nFla.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Showing a charming view\\nof one end of the lake on which\\nJessamine Gardens are located.\\nIn the foreground is shown part\\nof a block of 30,000 Trifoliate\\nOrange plants, backed by a row of\\nCannas taller than a man.\\nNo. 4. Gathering the Golden\\nFruit.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 View in an Orange grove,\\nshowing the trees full of fruit and\\nthe pickers busy at work. A very\\ncharacteristic and interesting\\nscene.\\nNo. 5. A Bunch of Bananas.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A\\nlarge clump of Banana plants, in\\na Lemon grove, from which hangs\\na bunch of fruit which a man\\nstanding beneath is unable to\\nreach. A remarkable sight to\\nNorthern eyes.\\nNo. 6. A Young Orange Grove.\\nShows how a young pine-land\\n59", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "Orange grove looks. Residence\\nand lakes showing in the back-\\nground.\\nNo. 7. Pineapples.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shows a field\\nof Pineapples in fruit.\\nNo. 8. Orange Tree Bending\\nUnder its Fruit.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shows a large\\nOrange tree in a grove, with the\\ncentre of the tree parted in the\\nmiddle and the limbs hanging\\nnearly to the ground, on each side,\\nunder the weight of fruit.\\nNo. 9. A Banana Orchard.\\nShowing voung and old plants,\\nthe latter holding several bunches\\nof fruit and towering far above\\nthe heads of two men standing be-\\nneath.\\nNo. 10. View in an Orange\\nGrove.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A young grove just com-\\ning into bearing. In one corner a\\nbeautiful young Date Palm, and\\nnear by the owner leaning on his\\nhoe and holding two Oranges.\\nResidence and Pine trees in the\\nbackground.\\nNo. 11. A Florida Cabbage\\nPatch.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A revelation to those\\nwho think Florida is all worthless\\nsand. Three men stand in the\\npatch, each holding two cabbages,\\nand the latter pretty thoroughly\\nobscure the men. Very tropical\\ngrowth in the background.\\nNo. 12. A Branch of Oranges.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nView in an Orange grove, the fore-\\nground occupied by a branch so\\nladen with fruit that the lower-\\nmost rest on the ground. Very\\nstriking.\\nNo. 13. A Banana Bud and\\nBloom.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shows the wonderful in-\\nflorescence of the Banana, and the\\ntiny fruits just formed.\\nNo. 14. Bloom of the Spanish\\nBayonet.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Showing on a black\\nbackground a magnificent cluster\\nof the lovely creamy -white bells\\nof the Spanish Bayonet (Yucca\\naloifoUa.)\\nNo. 1.5. The Giant Bamboo.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A\\ngrand clump of Bambusa vulgaris,\\nthe large unarmed Bamboo of\\nBengal. Resembles a gigantic\\nFern and is very striking and\\nunique.\\nNo. 16. One of the Date Palms.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094A view on a fine private place,\\nwith a good-sized Phoenix Palm\\nin the foreground.\\nNo. 17. Pampas Grass and Cen-\\ntury Plants.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 An enchanting\\nview on the same private place.\\nMust be seen to be appreciated.\\nNo. 18. Cabbage Palms. Shows\\ntwo large-sized Cabbage Palms\\nor Palmettoes, in the foreground,\\nwith the St. John s River in the\\nmiddle, and a group of Palms in\\nthe distance.\\nNo. 19. A Path Through Flor-\\nida Woods.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A path through a\\nvery heavy piece of hammock,\\nwith very large Live Oaks, hung\\nwith Spanish Moss, in the fore\\nand back ground. It is very\\npretty.\\nNo. 30. A Rustic Bridge over the\\nPalatlakaha River, with river\\nscenery about it. An exceedingly\\nbeautiful scene.\\nNo. 31. A Tangled Mass of Vine\\nAND Tree.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A very charming and", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "tropical appearing bit of wood-\\nland, a path disappearing under\\ntrees covered with interlacing\\nvines.\\nNo. 22. An Immense Live Oak on\\nSt. Joseph s Island, with people\\nup in the tree. An old fisherman\\nlives on the island and uses the\\ntree as a lookout, a series of lad-\\nders running to the top. When\\nhe wants to fish he goes up to the\\ntop of the tree with his telescope\\nand looks off for a spot where the\\nfish are playing and jumping in\\nthe water. The waters of the\\nGulf of Mexico can be seen in the\\nbackground.\\nNo. 23. The Silver King or Tar-\\npon.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shows a tarpon (fish) about\\nfive feet long, with a gentleman\\nstanding beside it.\\nNo. 24. A Gnarled and Twisted\\nLive OAK.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Presents a most gro-\\ntesque and quite indescribable ap-\\npearance. A Cabbage Palm grows\\nup through the snake-like branch-\\nes, which are hung with streamers\\nof Spanish Moss, and small Palms\\ndot the ground beneath.\\nNo. 25. The Festive Alligator is\\nshown chasing a little nigger\\naround a big stump. Pleases the\\nchildren immensely.\\nNo. 26. The Haunted River.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A\\nscene on the Palatlakaha River,\\nshowing a bank of wierd-looking\\nCypress trees, with their reflection\\nin the water, and among these re-\\nflections can be distinctly seen\\nthree human faces.\\nNo. 27. A Florida Home.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A beau-\\ntiful scene, showing the house\\nwitji piazza completely draped\\nwith vines, and the path leading\\nup to it bordered with giant Cacti,\\nCentury Plants, clumps of Span-\\nish Bayonet, Australian Silk Oaks\\nand Palms. Shows the grand pos-\\nsibilities of gardening in Florida.\\nNo. 28. A Florida Lawn.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the\\nforeground are two beautiful Date\\nPalms, and between them a man\\nstands beside a Century Plant\\n(Agave) which is taller than he, the\\nshrubbery, etc., showing in the\\nbackground.\\nNo. 29. A Florida Cracker and\\nHis Team, consisting of three\\npairs of oxen which are conspic-\\nuous chiefly for their lack of fat,\\nand the brand marks which show\\nvery plainly. A beautiful lake\\nforms the background.\\nNo. 30. Solitude.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shows a road\\nthrough a Florida forest\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ham-\\nmock with nothing alive in\\nsight. It has an unmistakable\\nlook of solitude.\\nNo. 31. The Old Log School-\\nhouse, shaded by an immense\\nLive Oak draped with Spanish\\nMos?. The log school house is one\\nof the features of Florida fast\\npassing away.\\nNo. 32. Result of a Morning s\\nHunt is a picture of a colored\\ngemman on a mule, both typical\\nand taken in the woods. The dar-\\nkey has his rifle, and across the\\nsaddle is a deer, and hanging to\\nhis back several squirrels.\\nNo. 33. Crackers and Their\\nHome.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A little log house in the\\nwoods, with father, mother,daugh-", "height": "2915", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "ter and son, the latter with his\\ngun, standing outside. Sharp eyes\\nwill discover many strange, laugh-\\nable and interesting features in\\nthis picture.\\nNo. 34. A Drapery of Moss.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A bit\\nof road through a Florida ham-\\nmock, completely overarched\\nwith trees, from the branches of\\nwhich hang draperies of the beau-\\ntiful silvery Spanish Moss. Two\\nmen in a wagon drawn by a mule,\\ngives the needed life to a charm-\\ning glimpse of nature.\\nNo. 35. Pine Island, Lake Apop-\\nKA, is a pretty picture, showing\\nPine Island in the distance, look-\\ning through Cabbage Palms in the\\nforeground.\\nNo. 36. Lighthouse, Egmont Key,\\non the Gulf coast. At the base of\\nthe lighthouse are two or three\\nlarge Cabbage Palms and Sea\\nGrape (a magnificent semi-trop-\\nical shrub).\\nNo. 37. On Palatlakaha River,\\nis atypical Florida river scene.\\nNo. 38. Campers on St. Joseph s\\nIsland.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shows a lot of campers\\naround a fire, with Cabbage Palms\\nand Live Oaks around. A typical\\nouting scene for which Florida is\\njustly famous.\\nNo. 39. Mouth op the Anclote\\nRiver.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A lovely scene, quite im-\\npossible to adequately describe. A\\npicture which never fails to elicit\\nexclamations of admiration.\\nNo. 40. On the Anclote River.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nA beautiful view of the river and\\nits banks, on which are growing\\nCabbage Palms, immense Pines\\nand other vegetation. A tiny\\nsteamer and its occupants enliven\\nthe scene.\\nNo. 41. The Bayou, Tarpon\\nSprings, taken from ex-Gov. Saf-\\nford s windmill.\\nNo. 43. Sponge Schooner at Tar-\\npon Springs.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A fine study for\\na painting.\\nNo. 43. Sponges on the Wharf\\nAT Tarpon Springs.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In addi-\\ntion to the heaps of sponges are\\nshown some of the pretty boat-\\nhouses around the spring. (This\\nis one of the Florida springs large\\nenough for small vessels to enter.)\\nNo. 44. On The St. John s River.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094A wild and weird scene.\\nNo. 45. A Little Pickaninny.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A\\nfat and wrinkled colored baby\\nsitting in a white wash-bowl. The\\nway he shows the whites of his\\neyes would upset the gravity of\\na judge.\\nNo. 46. Aunty, Her Picka-\\nninnies AND Home at Possum\\nTrot (three miles from Jessa-\\nmine Gardens.) A colored lady\\nand her numerous progeny group-\\ned before a cabin which is fear-\\nfully and wonderfully made.\\nThe stick and mud chimney\\nalone is a marvel and worthy the\\nbrush of some artist.\\nAddress orders for photographs to\\nPIKE ELLSWORTH,\\nJessamine,\\nPasco Co.,\\nFlorida.\\n62", "height": "2931", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "The Clyde Steamship Co\\nNEW YORK, CHARLESTON, ANI) FLORIDA LINE.\\nFor CHARLESTON, S. C, the South and Southwest.\\nFor JACKSONYILLE, FLA., and all Florida Points.\\nAppointed Sailing Days from Pier 29, East River, N. Y.\\nMondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 3 p .na.\\nTHE ONLY LINE BETWEEN\\nNE: W YORK AND JACKSONVILLE, KLA.\\nWITHOUT CHANGE.\\nUnsurpassed Passenger Accommodations and Cuisine.\\nThe Fleet is composed of the following elegant steamers\\nALGONQUIN, SEMINOLE, IROQUOIS, CHEROKEE, YEMAS-\\nSEE, DELAWARE.\\nThrongh Tickets, Rates and Bills of Lading for all points South and\\nSouthwest via CHARLESTON, and all Florida points via JACKSON-\\nVILLE.\\nST. JOHN S RIVER STEAMERS (De Bary Line)\\nJacksonville and Sanford, Fla.. and Intermediate Landings on\\nthe St. John s River.\\nSteamers City of Jacksonville, F. De Bary, Everglade, Welaka,\\nSailing from Jacksonville daily, except Saturday, at 3.30 p. m., making close\\nconnection with all railroads at Palatka, Astor, Blue Springs and Sanford.\\nThrough Tickets and Bills of Lading at Lowest Rates to all interior points\\nin Florida, For further information apply to\\nM. H. CLYDE, A. T. M., A. J. COLE, G. P. A., THEO. G. EGER, T. M.,\\nS BOWLING GREEN, NEW YORK.\\nWM. P. CLYDE CO., General Agents,\\n5 Bowling Green, 12 South Delaware Avenue,\\nNEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA.", "height": "2891", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "inlandofflowerss00pike_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "Florida Central Peninsular Railroad.\\nSHORT LINE BETWEEN FLORIDA AND ALL NORTHERN POINTS.\\nEVERETT, SAVANNAH, AUGUSTA, GA., COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON, BALTI-\\nMORE, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, BOSTON AND THE EAST.\\nEverett, Macon, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati,\\nChicago.\\nEverett, Birmingham, Holly Springs, Memphis, Little Rock, Kansas City,\\nSt. Louis, Chicago, Sioux City.\\nRiver Junction, Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans, Texas, Mexico, Cali-\\nfornia and the Pacific Coast.\\nONLY L,INE WITH THROUGH SLEEPERS BETWEEN JACK-\\nSONVILLE AND NEW ORLEANS.\\nLEAVE JACKSONVILLE TWICE DAILY\\nVia Fla. Central and Peninsular, Southern Ry. and Penna. R. R.,\\nWith Through Pullman Sleepers for Everett, Savannah, Columbia, Wash-\\nington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and all Eastern Polr^ts.\\nLEAVE JACKSONVILLE DAILY\\nFor Lake City, Live Oak, Madison, Monticello, Tallahassee, River Junction,\\nPensacola, Mobile, New Orleans and the Southwest, Mexico, California\\nand the Pacific coast. Carries Sleeper.\\nLEAVE JACKSONVILLE DAILY\\nFor Starke, Hawthorne, Silver Spring, Oca! a, Gainesville, Cedar Key, Wild-\\nwood, Leesburg, Tavares, Apopka, Orlando, Lacoochee, Dade City, Plant\\nCity, Tampa.\\nCINCINNATI AND FLORIDA LIMITED, DAILY\\nSolid Vestibule Train. Time a little over 35 hours to Cincinnati via Macon,\\nAtlanta, Chattanooga. Connects for Nashville, Louisville, Chicago and all\\npoints north and west.\\nHOLLY SPRINGS ROUTE, DAILY\\nOnly Route with Tlirougli Sleepers between Jacksonville and Kansas City, via\\nMacon. Atlanta, Birmingham, Holly Springs, Memphis, Springfield, Kansas\\nCity, St. Louis, Chicago. Sioux City. Through Sleepers without change to\\nKansas City and St. Louis, and only one change to Chicago and Sioux City.\\nWESTERN LOCAL DAILY For Tallahassee and intermediate points.\\nFROM JACKSONVILLE EVERY NIGHT\\nFor Tampa and intermediate points. Pullman Sleepers.\\n11. OO P. M.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Night Departure, Jacksonville to Cincinnati via Everett,\\nMacon, Atlanta, Chattanooga. Arrives Cincinnati 7.30 a. m. Leaves Cin-\\ncinnati 8.00 p. m. Arrives Jacksonville (5.00 a. m. Sleepers open at Jackson-\\nville 8.30 p. m. Arriving passengers can remain on sleepers until 7.30 a. ni.\\nPULLMAN SLEEPERS ON ALL NIGHT TRAINS.\\nSend for Best Indexed Township Map of Florida to\\nN. S. PENNINGTON, A. O. MacDONELL,\\nTraffic Manager. 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