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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. 



