Letters from FloridaD. Appleton, 1879 - 85 páginas |
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... my vocation - more's the pity ! For never was there a more ample field for the imagination to revel in uncontrolled , or richer opportunities for blending romance and reality , than this land of flowers offers. A HOME AND WORK FOR ALL.
... my vocation - more's the pity ! For never was there a more ample field for the imagination to revel in uncontrolled , or richer opportunities for blending romance and reality , than this land of flowers offers. A HOME AND WORK FOR ALL.
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... land , this storehouse of poetry and romance ; I may not unlock the gates and enter in . Right here , close by where I now write , from among the beautiful palmettoes , and under the grand old oaks , one still hears the whispers of a ...
... land , this storehouse of poetry and romance ; I may not unlock the gates and enter in . Right here , close by where I now write , from among the beautiful palmettoes , and under the grand old oaks , one still hears the whispers of a ...
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... land from " sinking into the darkness of oblivion . " Until within a comparatively few years Florida was a bone of ... land by suitable cultiva- tion and organizing manufactories for such work as promised to bring forward the best that ...
... land from " sinking into the darkness of oblivion . " Until within a comparatively few years Florida was a bone of ... land by suitable cultiva- tion and organizing manufactories for such work as promised to bring forward the best that ...
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... I long to see those who at the North are weary , seeking work and finding none , down here in Florida , where for fifty dollars forty acres of land can be purchased , around the lovely inland lakes , 12 LETTERS FROM FLORIDA .
... I long to see those who at the North are weary , seeking work and finding none , down here in Florida , where for fifty dollars forty acres of land can be purchased , around the lovely inland lakes , 12 LETTERS FROM FLORIDA .
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... land can be " entered , ” free from taxes for five years , or long enough to bring the land into a state of cultivation that will yield a very comfortable support till an orange grove is well established , and the trees almost old ...
... land can be " entered , ” free from taxes for five years , or long enough to bring the land into a state of cultivation that will yield a very comfortable support till an orange grove is well established , and the trees almost old ...
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551 BROADWAY abundant acres American Painters APPLETON attractive beautiful Beecher blackberries bring build cattle cleared climate Cloth comfortable home courage crops cultivation desire destroyed easily EIGHTY-THREE EXAMPLES English feeble flowers forest frost fruits Garden of Eden give graft grass guava hardships history of Florida I'ze industry John's John's River kind labor lady Lake land large number Letters from Florida lichens lovely lustrated luxury malarial fevers Mark's ment morning needed North Northern once orange orange-culture orange-groves orange-trees Palatka palmettoes piney wood pioneer plantation planted pleasure poor potatoes productive promise PUBLISHERS raised ready rejuvenated rich river Rollestown secure sensible settled sick sketches of fifty skill sour stumps South spring suffering sweet sweet potatoes things tion trees truth vegetables villages volume waste White Mountains wild wilderness winter wise woods York York Evening Post York Observer
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