XIV PALMETTOS OF THE ST. LUCIE 152 XV INTRUDING ON WARD’S HERONS 163 XVI ONE ROAD TO PALM BEACH 175 XVII MOONLIGHT AND MARCH MORNINGS 186 XVIII IN GRAPEFRUIT GROVES 197 XIX BUTTERFLIES OF THE INDIAN RIVER 208 XX ALLIGATORS AND WILD TURKEYS 220 XXI EASTER TIME AT PALM BEACH 231 XXII INTO THE MIRACULOUS SEA 243 XXIII DOWN THE ST. JOHNS 253 XXIV HOLLY BLOSSOM TIME 264 XXV IN A TURPENTINE CAMP 276 INDEX 287 ILLUSTRATIONS “The road down Indian River winds always southward toward the sun” _Frontispiece_ “They line the paths on either side with the gray columns of their trunks” _Titlepage_ PAGE “Profuse draperies of moss pendant from each branch and twig” 10 “To march along this water is to promenade a river side and a sea beach in one” 30 “Lesser scaup ducks are very tame in Florida waters all winter” 34 “In the grateful shadow of an orange tree facing sunward in the grove” 50 “Under the long robes of gray moss at the foot of the ancient cypress trees” 58 “A wilderness where deer and bear still linger” 78 “Razor-backs do not think it good to live alone” 84 Court of “The Alcazar” at St. Augustine 88 Cathedral Place, St. Augustine 92 “The fort that waits in crumbling beauty the obliterating hand of the coming centuries” 94 “The first frosts turned the upper leaves of the banana trees a light brown” 102 The banana tree in bloom 106 “The southeast trade-winds here pass a long line of the islands which bar off the Indian River from the ocean” 108 “This is a country of pineapple plantations” 114 “Spring and autumn kissed yesterday in the savannas east of Lake Okeechobee” 118