. Annual report. Florida Geological Survey; Geology -- Florida. GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 107 Only about 65% of the trees are evergreen, the lowest figure of any region in this latitude in Florida. Ericaceous shrubs arc rather scarce, as in other calcareous regions, and leguminous plants fairly well represented, especially among the weeds. Not much use seems to be made of the native vegetation, except the pines for lumber and turpentine, almost any of the trees for fuel, and the Spanish moss for mattresses. In the early days the forest was simply an encumbrance on the land, that the farmers
. Annual report. Florida Geological Survey; Geology -- Florida. GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 107 Only about 65% of the trees are evergreen, the lowest figure of any region in this latitude in Florida. Ericaceous shrubs arc rather scarce, as in other calcareous regions, and leguminous plants fairly well represented, especially among the weeds. Not much use seems to be made of the native vegetation, except the pines for lumber and turpentine, almost any of the trees for fuel, and the Spanish moss for mattresses. In the early days the forest was simply an encumbrance on the land, that the farmers had to get rid of with much labor. At present it is customary in this and other hammock regions in Florida to let cabbage palmettos grow in orange groves and other cultivated ground wherever they will (see fig. 14). Some of these may be remnants of the original forest, but probably most of them have been planted by birds, and arc left because they indicate hammock land and are ornamental and do not take much light and nourishment away from the •"H., ;j Fig. 14. Cabbage palmettos in cultivated field on hillside about 2 miles south of Ocala. March 8, 1914. Population. As this region covers only a small part of Marion County, and contains a city of considerable size, it is not possible to get any accurate information about the rural population from census reports; but in number of inhabitants per square mile and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Florida Geological Survey. Tallahassee, Fla. :
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