Have you ever eaten a Florida orange, fresh plucked, that ripened on the tree? If not, visit Florida, and enjoy the greatest luxury of your life. It is the fruit _par excellence_--fit food for the gods. I have, in the course of my somewhat eventful life, eaten oranges in the groves of the Mediterranean, South America, Mexico and the West Indies, but none can compare with the orange grown in this State. Our soil is peculiarly adapted to the growth and maturity of the _perfect_ orange. No other soil can produce it. The West India and Louisiana seedling orange tree is wonderfully improved by being transplanted in Florida soil. South Florida will, ere long, be one vast orange grove, and will supply the world with her incomparable fruit. She will supply the Mediterranean ports with better oranges than can possibly be raised in that country. Won't that be "carrying coals to Newcastle?" I may not live to see the above prediction verified, but there are persons living at this time who will. If any of your numerous friends think it would be a good thing to have an orange grove, advise them to visit the Gulf coast of South Florida before locating elsewhere. Also tell them to drop in at Braidentown. They may go further and fare worse. The most direct route to this place is by rail to Cedar Key, the present terminus of railroad communication, thence by steamer down the coast. The mail steamers leave Cedar Key twice a week for this place and Tampa. Leave Cedar Key at 4 o'clock P. M. on Monday and Friday of each week, and arrive at Braidentown at 7 o'clock the following morning. _Au revoir._ S. C. UPHAM. The following communication was published in the _Florida Agriculturist_ in January last, under the caption of the "_Climate of the Gulf Coast of South Florida_." Having kept a record of the state of the thermometer at 6 o'clock A. M., 12 o'clock M. and 6 o'clock P. M. at Braidentown, Manatee County, Florida, from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December, 1880, inclusive, I herewith inclose you a synopsis of the same for publication in the _Agriculturist_, with the hope that it may interest your numerous readers, especially those in the Northern and Western States who are seeking homes in The land of the orange and guava, The pine-apple, date and cassava. I also send a statement of the rainfall for the year 1880. TEMPERATURE. Average temperature at 6 o'clock A. M., 71-1/3° Average temperature at 12 o'clock M., 83-2/3° Average temperature at 6 o'clock P. M., 78-7/8° Highest temperature at 12 o'clock M., 96° July 1st and August 26th, Lowest temperature at 6 o'clock A. M., 38° Dec. 31st, RAINFALL.