Letters from FloridaD. Appleton, 1879 - 85 páginas |
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... abundant than the living . How often from such moonlight scenes have I re- turned to my room to spend many sleepless hours in trying to devise some practical scheme by which hun- dreds of the skillful and intelligent men and women ...
... abundant than the living . How often from such moonlight scenes have I re- turned to my room to spend many sleepless hours in trying to devise some practical scheme by which hun- dreds of the skillful and intelligent men and women ...
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... abundant , there is no need of close economy in fuel . A latticed ver- anda separates the kitchen , store - rooms , and servants ' . rooms from the main building . A cemented cistern or reservoir of ample size is in the rear . A good ...
... abundant , there is no need of close economy in fuel . A latticed ver- anda separates the kitchen , store - rooms , and servants ' . rooms from the main building . A cemented cistern or reservoir of ample size is in the rear . A good ...
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... abundance even so liberally as to send these claimants where work can be obtained , if only to free themselves from their importunity ? Do you complain that this gives you little infor- mation 40 LETTERS FROM FLORIDA .
... abundance even so liberally as to send these claimants where work can be obtained , if only to free themselves from their importunity ? Do you complain that this gives you little infor- mation 40 LETTERS FROM FLORIDA .
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... abundance of eggs , with very trifling effort , so plen- tifully as in this country . And until there is time . to arrange a poultry house and yard on a large scale , what better food can any one desire than the deli- cious wild turkey ...
... abundance of eggs , with very trifling effort , so plen- tifully as in this country . And until there is time . to arrange a poultry house and yard on a large scale , what better food can any one desire than the deli- cious wild turkey ...
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... abundant , and so fine that to cultivate them would be a waste of time . I saw acres of ripening , wild blackberries in a neighboring planta- tion , and heard the proprietor give orders to an old colored " auntie " to pick one hundred ...
... abundant , and so fine that to cultivate them would be a waste of time . I saw acres of ripening , wild blackberries in a neighboring planta- tion , and heard the proprietor give orders to an old colored " auntie " to pick one hundred ...
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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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