Excerpt from Plain Talk About Florida, Vol. 1: For Homes and Investments Many have failed in Florida, but always on account of their own mis management. These failures are a standing danger signal for those who come now. In these pages you will find names of many who have succeeded. Do as they did, and there is no danger of failure. Above all things, avoid discussion of the subject with these smart, im pertinent fellows, who can tell you all about it, and know so many in stances of disaster. They are invariably either inventing or retailing falsehoods. Nine out of ten of them would like to own an orange grove, but have not sufficient manhood to undertake it, and wait for it, and do not want anybody else to do what they dare not. The wise men and the wealthy men of our nation are rapidly turning their attention to it. A thousand prominent Northern capitalists have winter homes and orange groves in our State. Ten thousand intelligent, industrious Northern men of small means are comfortably situated on permanent homes, and over three hundred thousand people live easily by agriculture here, while it is attracting more attention than any other part of our Union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.