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saying that they do not need any cultivation by cattle, hogs or 
horses. 
A time will come, I hope, when in each county we shall have a 
competent person as superintendent of trees and tree planting 
along our roads, not a politician but a devoted lover of them, not 
only for their utility but for their beauty. This superintendent 
should have intelligent laborers to help and a sufficient fund 
properly to carry on the work. 
I can look ahead in imagination to a time when Florida will be 
netted with a magnificent system of roads; when these roads will 
be shaded everywhere with the most glorious trees that the 
warmer parts of the earth produce. What a feeling of pride 
every citizen will have in such a system of highways! What an 
inducement they will be to the northerner to spend his winters,— 
yes and his summers—among us; what an opportunity for autoing 
it will make! 
The true lover of trees is not likely to figure on their cash 
value, but the business man can easily estimate without fear of 
exaggeration that such a road system as I have pictured would 
be the best possible advertisement we could make. It would 
bring more desirable tourists and settlers than tens of thousands 
of pages of advertising. 
