Letters from FloridaD. Appleton, 1879 - 85 páginas |
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... waste places and revive the original loveliness , the growth of interest , mostly through transient visitors , must of necessity be much too slow for our impa- tience . Yet it is impossible to doubt that , with intel- ligently directed ...
... waste places and revive the original loveliness , the growth of interest , mostly through transient visitors , must of necessity be much too slow for our impa- tience . Yet it is impossible to doubt that , with intel- ligently directed ...
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... waste and barren ; but from window I could then see a large track of land well plowed , and neatly fenced , where grain and potatoes were cover- ing the broad fields with rich green , and where the newly planted cotton and sugar - cane ...
... waste and barren ; but from window I could then see a large track of land well plowed , and neatly fenced , where grain and potatoes were cover- ing the broad fields with rich green , and where the newly planted cotton and sugar - cane ...
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... waste ' places of earth , and make " the wil- derness bud and blossom like the rose " ? But think what it would be to unite the two la- bors ! What nobler work can any one desire than to strengthen the weak , heal the sick , feed the ...
... waste ' places of earth , and make " the wil- derness bud and blossom like the rose " ? But think what it would be to unite the two la- bors ! What nobler work can any one desire than to strengthen the weak , heal the sick , feed the ...
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... waste places which war has left in Florida - by mending broken windows and neatly curtaining them - no longer allowing the blinds to swing on one hinge at the mercy of every wind that blows - how soon might one see a neat white- washed ...
... waste places which war has left in Florida - by mending broken windows and neatly curtaining them - no longer allowing the blinds to swing on one hinge at the mercy of every wind that blows - how soon might one see a neat white- washed ...
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... waste places , and it will not be many years before these will become habitable , comfortable dwellings - if not stately mansions - and well - culti- vated and productive orange - groves . " But an effort to reclaim such old , half ...
... waste places , and it will not be many years before these will become habitable , comfortable dwellings - if not stately mansions - and well - culti- vated and productive orange - groves . " But an effort to reclaim such old , half ...
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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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