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Series of guidebooks to traveling in Florida, produced yearly from 1784-1881.

4 volumes in this collection

1 p. l., [v]-xv, [17]-246, [2] p. illus. 19 cm.

Gardening in Florida, a treatise on the vegetables and tropical products of Florida outlines agricultural practice in Florida.

3 p. l., 98 p.

Includes descriptions of Florida history including natural formation, discovery of America, colonization, and travel and development.

139 p. illus. 21 cm.

Details gardening and farming in Florida, including drainage, irrigation, and soil selection in the Everglades area.

View of a man with a rifle in a large alligator’s mouth.

[Text on back]
Alligator Joe’s Battle With a Wounded Gator, Palm Beach, Florida: Here is one of the terrors of out southern rivers. Alligators are as much dreaded by bathers in the rivers…

Slightly bird’s eye view of several rows of an orange grove. A man attired in a suit and hat stands between the first two rows.

View of a man riding on a mule-drawn cart while a boy holds the reigns. The Putnam House in Palatka, Florida is visible in the background.

View of the back of two girls and a boy in the foreground looking out over the water at the steamboat, Florence. The steamboat is docked at the landing at the end of a pier.

View of the side of a hotel with multi-columned porch that overlooks a small fenced garden with geometrically shaped paths. Men and women in suits and floor length dresses are seated at tables and chair groupings on the porch overlooking the garden.…

View of a spring surrounded by a platform, fence, and wooden building. Two figures are seated in the doorway opening onto the platform.