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Non-Tech : The Pineapple Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Graystone who wrote (49)	3/3/2002 11:13:34 PM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 138

Pensacola Pineapple or Life in the Navy <<Although cut off in a great measure from the rest of the world and in a port of limited commerce, we lived in great comfort and luxury. The waters afforded us the finest fish and oysters in the world, and the surrounding country furnished us abundance of game, such as wild turkey and venison, and we had very fine poultry of every description. Gophers were abundant, we buying them by the barrel, and sea turtle were a luxury sometimes brought in by the ships. The country people kept us supplied with fine fruit in the season, and the little coasting schooners made the tropical fruits a daily enjoyment, especially pineapples and oranges. The flowers in this congenial climate make a wonderful growth. I began a little conservatory, through the kindness of Mrs. Farrand, a great botanist and lover of flowers, and my next-door neighbor, and by the time I could bring my family to the Navy Yard, the first of November, the plants had grown not inches but feet in height. Jessamines, geraniums, heliotropes, and many lovely plants looked as though my little greenhouse had been "a thing of beauty" for several years. >> ref link docsouth.unc.edu Life would not have been as nice without the pineapple I can assure you.