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trees are. There is such a variety of col¬ 
or in the bark and in the late afternoons 
with the sun at your back they are almost 
a bright pink and the tops seem to be so 
many green puffs. They have quite a 
number of good points, too. They do 
not grow as fast as the Australian pine 
which is being used a great deal in Dade 
County, but they grow quite rapidly, 
growing more than a foot in a year and 
the young trees are such good looking 
little fellows with their nice bushy heads. 
They make much better looking young 
trees than the Australian pines and then, 
too, they are not subject to disease like 
the Australian pines. In some places 
they have to be sprayed once a year to 
keep one from dying out here and there. 
The mango is being used for an avenue 
tree also. Some let them grow up in 
their natural bush shape, others trim 
them up so they have a trunk six or eight 
feet high. I think the latter way is the 
nicer. They take on a nice round top 
when treated this way. The mango, 
though, is only for the southern part of 
Florida. A tree that could be treated 
the same way and give the same effect 
for the northern part of Florida would 
be the camphor. It is naturally of a bushy 
growth, but if trimmed up so as to have 
a single trunk at the bottom it makes a 
very nice head quite similar to the water 
oak. 
The great thing to my mind in orna¬ 
menting is simplicity. Don’t try too 
much, but get started; it takes years for 
trees to grow and we are soon dead and 
gone. 
I thank you very much for your atten¬ 
tion. 
WHAT THE WOMEN OF THE FEDERATION ARE DOING: ORNA¬ 
MENTAL PLANTING AND ROYAL PALM STATE PARK 
Mrs. Edgar Lewis, Vice-President of Section Five, Florida Federation 
Women’s Clubs 
The Florida Federation of Woman’s 
Clubs grows so rapidly that it is danger¬ 
ous to quote membership statistics; state¬ 
ments which are perfectly good and reli¬ 
able, one month, will not pass muster in 
thirty days; glittering generalities leave 
one’s reputation for accuracy in better 
standing. 
However, until the next meeting of the 
Board of Directors, it is reasonably safe 
to say that there are in the Florida Fed¬ 
eration, 145 clubs, with a total member¬ 
ship of more than 8,000 women. These 
clubs are doing all kinds of work, since 
the latitude for Federation eligibility is 
very broad indeed; when applying for 
membership, a club must only show that 
it is working for individual or community 
betterment, is non-sectarian and is or¬ 
ganized to operate within the state. It 
is, therefore, not hard to believe that 
these 145 clubs show 145 varying possi- 
