"Miami, Florida Thursday Dec 21 911. Long before I got up in fact with day break it was very evident that I had suddenly arrived in the compared midst middle of the summer in there. At nine A M. the thermometer is 82° in the shade. It is hot and depre- sing and there is little life giving strength to the air. The natives are also hot and stir but little, The towns and people look like one of our cheap northern summer resorts. Everyone has just arrived and in fact no one Miami can be here more than mine years. Coconut palms are to be seen everywhere and many of them have half grown nuts. They are a fine sight among them only long and thread leaves in the air. All of them start out curved from the ground and but for stand straight. Of Royal palms one also sees some. Among the houses one sees other palms than those in northern Florida though there is one here very now and then. Cypads are also common. Poinsettia is in full bloom and the bushes are 6 to 6 feet tall and all aflame. Our northern garden specimens are but a shadow of these down here. There are other shrubs in blossom and the roses, rather large stalks, are in flower but the blossoms do not look good. They are evidently only place here.