Only One Florida: Considered From Every Point of View; A New Book (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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States, but the trees, plants, animals, soils and seasons have changed, and even the dwellings and clothing of the people. In the forests he will miss nearly every tree with which' he is familiar, or if he sees one, it is in a cold Wet soil, or an extreme northern county, and in diminutive proportions. The woods of Florida are of other families and species, not less valuable, but dif' ferent. The new comer may be amused for a season, but the chances are even that the difference will work dissatisfaction in a short time. If he comes irem the rocky hills and mountains of New England, from the drift and boul' der regions of Michigan and Wisconsin, he will miss the stone fences and gravel soils. If from the black sedimentary plains of Illinois and Iowa, he will be disgusted with the sands of Florida. He will not find the clays and muds of Ohio and Kentucky. Come from where he may, he will find a change from all he has before seen and known. He will not see fields of hundreds of acres waving with wheat, oats, barley and corn, nor four horses hitched to a gang of plows turning over ten acres of soil in a day, or to a reaper that cuts and binds ten acres of grain in a day. The grain seeder is not seen in the field. Come from where he may, expect what he may, he is sure to find un expected changes. With superficial knowledge, he will declare the ridges and dry grounds barrens, and the flat lands swamps. Se he makes up his mind in a day and nothing can change it. Back he goes, and talks and writes in his ignorance. Florida is better for his absence Some come expecting a change; they find more than they expected. They investigate the causes.

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