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MEXICAN GULF COAST ILLUSTRATED.
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bred milch cows kept, and every morning the Coast train takes fresh milk to the city for the use of his family. The yield per acre of crops of vegetables raised is often phenomenal.
The Mayor of Ocean Springs is D. D. Cowan, Esq., whose occupation is one of the noblest in which man can engage. He is an experienced educator and is admirably fitted for the responsible position which he occupies at the head of the Public School/which he occupiesf But for an unforeseen accident his portrait would have appeared in these pages.
Hon. Parker Earle’s home in Ocean Springs, “Bay View,” is, in the opinion of many persons, the most charming location on the whole Coast. It is situated on the eastern side of Biloxi Bay, less than a mile from the Sound, and commands a view not only of the Bay and Gulf, but also of the
Back Bay of Biloxi. The north line of his place is Fort Bayou. The situation is one of surpassing beauty.
It is not necessary to say that Parker Earle is one of the most widely known horticulturists in the United States. He has been the President of the^American Horticultural Association for roeny years, and was the Chief of the Horticultural Division of the Cotton Centennial and World’s Exposition at New Orleans in 1884-5. In 1885 he purchased prop-* erty at Ocean Springs, and during the greater portion of the time since then has made his home there. With his sons' he has an improved farm near the town of several hundred acres. Much of the work done has been experimental. The farm is set in various kinds of fruit.
Earle & Sons have fruit farms also at Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and at Cobden and Anna, Illinois.
Ocean Springs is an eligible point for a number of manufacturing industries. A fruit-curing and canning factory wrell managed would, without question, be a safe investment. Beginning with strawberries in the early •spring a succession of other fruits follow until fall and early winter. Before strawberries	are	gone,	dewberries are ripe, followed by blackberries, whor-
tfeberries,	plums,	figs,	peaches, pears, quinces, and grapes. And the same
HON. PARKER EARLE. ■*