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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
ery evening. On Thursday afternoon we 
were the guests of the Board of Trade, 
and they furnished automobiles for all 
of our members. After riding over the 
fine roads of Dade county and looking 
at the truck gardens in that section, we 
were all taken across Lake Worth to see 
beautiful Palm Beach and were given the 
added pleasure of visiting the “Garden of 
Eden,’' the home of Mrs. C. I. Cragin. 
It was a veritable Garden of Eden, 
filled with tropical trees and plants, many 
of them very rare and some covered with 
blooms. As most of the plants and trees 
bore their names it enabled many of us 
to associate plant and name together for 
the first time. All true lovers of horti¬ 
culture wished we had hours to spend en¬ 
joying the beauties, rather than the few 
minutes we could spare. 
On our return to the city the ladies en¬ 
tertained us with an informal reception 
in the park, which was enjoyed exceed¬ 
ingly. 
Our session this year was doubly inter¬ 
esting, owing to the fact that we had 
with us the Federal Loan Board, who 
came down to inspect our State after the 
cold, and also to take up the question of 
loans in this State. The full text of 
this discussion will be found in the re¬ 
port. 
