. Outing. antagonizes her beneficent work. Thelarger part of our wild flowers are also . • \ ri ■ • Mm ^gu y**9& ! fj^t )amm !.5*^ mMm ■ WHEN THE RIPE FRUIT DEMANDS ATTENTION. lected by the farmers. When fullygrown they are dry and woody. Thevelvet bean was an importation for or-nament. It grows from fifty to seventyfeet in a season and was used to coverthe cottages. The bean is eatable, butit is coarse, and the vine is so rank agrower that it is unsuitable for or-chards. The cow pea, of course, thrives here,and makes a very excellent summercover crop. In the North you need a legumes, and as u
. Outing. antagonizes her beneficent work. Thelarger part of our wild flowers are also . • \ ri ■ • Mm ^gu y**9& ! fj^t )amm !.5*^ mMm ■ WHEN THE RIPE FRUIT DEMANDS ATTENTION. lected by the farmers. When fullygrown they are dry and woody. Thevelvet bean was an importation for or-nament. It grows from fifty to seventyfeet in a season and was used to coverthe cottages. The bean is eatable, butit is coarse, and the vine is so rank agrower that it is unsuitable for or-chards. The cow pea, of course, thrives here,and makes a very excellent summercover crop. In the North you need a legumes, and as useful as they are beau-tiful. Our ten acres with which we startedwe found to be an ideal at Lake Lucy, in front, theland sloped upward to the east and thenrolled on down into Lake beauty of Lake Lucy was startlingfrom the first; an almond-shaped sheetof water, about half a mile across, thebanks, after a rim of flat rich gardenmuck—splendid for celery and lettuce. CELERY IS A GOOD CROP IN SOME PARTS OF FLORIDA. —rise to a bluffy height, which makessuperb building sites, all of them hold-ing the lake in front. It was a curiousand complete retreat, two miles fromthe village; a few select neighbors with-in reach and lofty pines crowning thewhole lake rim, occasionally runningdown to the shore. Those that stand near the lake lookat their own beauty in the still water,where they are more conspicuous thanon the land. It was not greed, butsympathy with Nature, that led me tobuy all that I could secure. Lakefronts and knolls soon became insepa-rable. These small lakes are scatteredeverywhere about this section of Flor-ida. They vary from a few rods indiameter to half a dozen miles. Someof them are mere ponds, but most ofthem will some day be utilized by thosewho desire winter homes, out of reachof frost. Of course the orange is our typicalcrop, and an orange grove or orchardis a tiling of beauty and a joy in fruit or in blossom t
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