. Highways and byways of the South. y set-back. If the central bud is not injured, thetree will endure almost anything. The soft enfold-ings of new leaves that surround this bud somewhatresemble a cabbage in quality, whence comes one of thetrees names-—cabbage palm. Now and then thereare natives who eat the palmetto cabbage, and theydeclare it to be very palatable. Miami is at the extreme end of the railway line, welldown toward the point of the peninsula. 1 found theplace laid out in right-angled streets on a grand scale ;and long, straight avenues were cut through the sub-urban forests for m
. Highways and byways of the South. y set-back. If the central bud is not injured, thetree will endure almost anything. The soft enfold-ings of new leaves that surround this bud somewhatresemble a cabbage in quality, whence comes one of thetrees names-—cabbage palm. Now and then thereare natives who eat the palmetto cabbage, and theydeclare it to be very palatable. Miami is at the extreme end of the railway line, welldown toward the point of the peninsula. 1 found theplace laid out in right-angled streets on a grand scale ;and long, straight avenues were cut through the sub-urban forests for miles around, that the communitymight grow to an enormous metropolis if fate so , very little had been built thus far, and theuntamed woodland straggled into the very heart of thehamlet. Where the soil was poor, the trees were pines. Spring on the Florida Coast 7 They grew so scatteringly you could see for a mile ormore among their slender stems, and yovi seemed to bein a monotonous park, cleared of much of its timber. A Characteristic Landscape and of all the brush save the lowly palmetto scrub. Inthe hollows were intervals of dark rich earth, knownas hammock land, that supported a dense growth 8 Highways and Byways of the South of banyans, rubber trees, oaks, and other crowded trees and bushes of the hammock landswere draped with innumerable vines, and formed realequatorial jungles. One of these thickets had formerlycovered a part of the site of the town, and I was toldby the first settlers of a half-dozen years before thatthey could only get through it by crawling on theirhands and knees. Most of the soil in and aboutMiami is so thin as to be scarcely apparent, and thechalky rock which makes the main substance of theearth is almost bare. This rock is much used for road-making, and the local highways are commendablyhard and smooth, but very glaring in the intenseSouthern sunshine. One of my walks took me to Cocoanut Grove, a vil-lage of about twent
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