FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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we are going to interest you to the best 
of our ability while you are here. 
We want you, in your deliberations 
here, to remember we are one of the 
youngest counties in the state, but we have 
perhaps the most magnificent possibilities. 
We contain more Everglades than any 
other county, and that ’glade land has 
been discovered to be wonderful in its 
fertility. 
But we want you to remember that 
although we are so young we have many 
things that give us state-wide prominence. 
We have an orange grove at Jupiter that 
has taken gold medals wherever it has 
been exhibited. The owner of that grove 
says there are 300,000 acres of just such 
land still remaining in our county, uncul¬ 
tivated. From one station, Delray, we 
ship more pineapples than from any other 
station in Florida. 
Our truck growers all over the county 
are prosperous and but for that little un¬ 
fortunate freeze the gentleman told us 
about, they would all be a good deal hap¬ 
pier now than they unfortunately are. 
But to prove to you how lucrative truck 
growing in this county can be, go down to 
Hypoluxo and you will see the fine homes 
our truck growers are building and have 
built from the proceeds of the products of 
their farms. 
Therefore, you will see that we are not 
altogether back numbers, but keenly alive 
to the prospects of fixing up those Ever¬ 
glades and the 300,000 acres I spoke of, 
for the future. 
In many ways we have set the pace for 
Florida; we have a Superintendent of Ag¬ 
riculture and a Canning Club Agent; both 
of which this Board of Trade has been 
instrumental in gettting here. We also 
have a County Fair of which we are justly 
proud. It has a bonus each year from our 
County Commissioners, to show that they 
appreciate our possibilities. 
We will, therefore, listen to the words 
of wisdom that will drop from the lips of 
your speakers, and we will listen with re¬ 
ceptive ears and try to get as much good 
out of this convention as possible. We 
want you here on account of the instruc¬ 
tion you will give us. We want you here 
to show you what we have, and we want 
you here because we feel you will leave 
here with good will towards us, and speak 
a good word for us when our name is 
spoken. 
Therefore, I again bid you welcome on 
behalf of the Board of Trade. 
Across the way is Palm Beach; the 
great Palm Beach; the millionaires’ play¬ 
ground, where people come even from 
Europe to enjoy its advantages, and you, 
ladies and gentlemen, are here and these 
advantages are yours. We want you to 
make the most of them. We want you to 
go away with kind memories of those ad¬ 
vantages. 
Palm Beach is the emphasis of the 
whole State of Florida. We want you 
to know more about Palm Beach at the 
same time you are teaching us about the 
State of Florida. 
We want you to feel at home, but not 
like a friend of mine who once had some 
guests at his table. In an abrupt manner 
he said, “Now make yourselves at home. 
I am at home and wish you all were.” 
We want you to be at home, but in our 
home. We want you to feel when you 
come back here again, that you are coming 
