File:Florida, beauties of the east coast (1890) (14785140103).jpg

Identifier: floridabeautieso00jac (find matches)
Title: Florida, beauties of the east coast
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Indian River Railway
Subjects:
Publisher: (Buffalo, the Matthews-Northrup Co., art printing works
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ch, Figulus, Deer Park, and Hypoluxo, stations,villages and names with pleasant landings for the merry steamer parties, two orthree miles apart, perhaps, and yet not separated at all in truth. One starts out fora stroll to north or south from either name and could not tell the boundary. Along the well-worn, trimmed, and often graveled, path upon the white coquinawall that nature rears just high enough to quell the greater waves a wayward stormmight lash upon the fair lake in some unseasonable rage, the truant wanderer is sureto stroll far from his starting point, as every turn displays some new wonder oftropical luxury. Through arches of oleander and groves of flowering trees thatwould be dwarfed hot-house shrubs in the richest northern home; fanned by coolbreezes and perfumed with rich odors all around — what temptation to return! Nature has here supplied all the material the most lavish workman couldcovet; and the taste and labor of the wealthiest capitals of our land, from Phila-
Text Appearing After Image:
0RAN3E GROVE, SAN MATEO. delphia and the richest cities of the east to the golden larders of Colorado, havegathered along these shores to feast upon, train and beautify the alreacly beautiful.There may be no castles outside of fable with such surroundings as some of thesehomes on Lake Worth now boast — such luxuries of the Tropics with comforts of theTemperate Zone ! Imagine the succulent vegetables of favored northern gardens side by sidewith all this tropical profligacy of growth. Here you may see them — sweetcorn and coffee, the tomato and the tamarind, the potato and the sapodilla — theneighbors in growth. Here, amid pine-apple patches and cocoanut groves, aregardens containing a wonderful variety of strange tropical fruits — the Avacadopear, custard apple, almond, mango, maumee apple, pawpaw, grape fruit, guavaand banana. A hammock of sand and loam with a narrow swail of black rich muck, like athread along the centre, furnishing the food that tempers the soil to any consi

Note About Images