FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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eucalyptus robusta, the palms, cocoanut, 
date or sago, the hibiscus, crotons, and 
oleanders. 
The Dade County Federation of Wo¬ 
men’s Organizations, with over 700 
members, will plant a tree for every club 
baby; in Palm Beach County, several 
miles of the Dixie Highway have been 
planted with ornamentals, by the club 
women. The Saint Lucie County Fed¬ 
eration of Women’s Clubs, has promised 
the commissioners to plant the entire 52 
miles of the Highway through that 
county, furnishing all ornamentals them¬ 
selves, and only asking the assistance of 
the county convicts, in the actual planting, 
and the use of the county water wagon 
to facilitate the watering. Ten miles are 
already planted, with material for sev¬ 
eral more ready, and awaiting the com¬ 
pletion of the roads. The Saint Lucie 
plan includes the planting of eucalyptus 
robusta, every fifty feet, with red hibiscus 
between; occasional clumps of white 
oleander, red hibiscus and jacaranda to 
furnish the red, white and blue, of the 
Dixie Highway color scheme; giant bam¬ 
boo at the waterways; and cabbage 
palmetto seeds planted throughout the 
course, so that, in time to come, if so 
desired, the eucalyptus may be cut down, 
leaving a driveway bordered by red hi¬ 
biscus and cabbage palmetto, two charac¬ 
teristic growths of St. Lucie County. 
A member of the Woman’s Club of Fort 
Pierce raises the eucalyptus robusta, as 
well as the jacaranda, from seed, while 
many women throughout the county, have 
large beds of hibiscus cuttings and quan¬ 
tities of palmetto seed, in the saving of 
which, by far the most difficult part was 
to harden one’s heart against the hordes 
of hungry robins who evidently consid¬ 
ered palmetto seeds their own particular 
dainty. 
While the women of the federated 
clubs have, through their civic planting, 
dotted the state with beautiful and lasting 
monuments to their taste, their public 
spirit and their industry, they have ac¬ 
complished quite as much of value 
through the conservation of natural beau¬ 
ties that must otherwise have fallen be¬ 
fore that so-called progress, in which the 
ruling idea of advancement seems to be, 
“to cut down.” Many towns of the state 
have to thank the clubs for the present 
possession of the noble trees on which 
they base their sole claim to character 
and beauty, and no one can quite forget 
the valiant woman who stood for hours, 
with their arms around some beloved 
trees, in order to save them from the 
axes of the destroyers. 
But the crowning conservation glory of 
Federation, destined, through the strug¬ 
gles of the Federation, to stand for the 
glory of Florida, and the benefit of future 
generations, is Royal Palm State Park, 
the only property of its kind in the United 
States, and probably in the world, owned 
by a woman’s organization. 
Lying 48 miles south of Miami, a rare 
tropical jungle called Paradise Key was 
for years a wonderland of romance and 
beauty, known only through the tales of 
the Seminoles and of the fortunate few 
white men who had the hardihood and 
good fortune to reach it. 
Many years passed, many things hap¬ 
pened that might easily be woven into an 
