Excerpt from Florida Fruits and How to Raise Them
Florida Fruits and How to Raise Them before the public, the writer gives tangible expression to the growing belief that not in the citrus fruits alone will Florida find the Alpha and Omega of her horticultural wealth.
While oranges are now, and will probably continue to be, the chief staple in such sections of our great State as are best suited to their culture, there are numerous other fruits making, year by year, rapid strides to the front.
A few years ago the question was, What can be grown in Florida?
To-day the question is, What can not be grown in Florida?
For instance, it was said that strawberries could not be raised in quantity; already, in the last three years, they have won recognition as one of the most profitable quick crops that can be raised any where.
Peaches could not be grown in Florida was the assertion only four or five years ago, and now it has been proven that peaches can not only be grown over nearly the whole State, but grown in abundance and in perfection. The peach crop is already a very important item in the western and central sections, and yearly becoming more extended both in quantity and area.
And so we might go over a long list of fruits already proven to be, adapted to Florida’s soil and climate, but these examples will suffice to show that in the horticultural possibilities of our beautiful sunny State we stand yet upon the threshold.
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