Committee Reports on Ornamentals 
Mrs. Marian A. McAdow, Punta Gorda, Fla. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
Surely I may call you that after the 
gracious honor the Society last night con¬ 
ferred upon me by making me their sec¬ 
ond vice-president, and by the warm 
and generous response they and those 
outside the Society have made to my 
call for aid in developing the natural re¬ 
sources the Great Father has hidden in 
the soil of Old Florida, to stimulate and 
develop in us His own godliness in 
searching for his most precious gift. 
When I was made chairman of the 
Committee on Ornamentals, I assumed 
my responsibility with great satisfaction, 
because I recognized therein my sovereign 
power in being privileged to crack the 
whip and make the rest of the committee 
do the fancy acts — so I did not prepare 
a paper for this meeting, and not being 
an extemporaneous speaker, I am not able 
to talk what I might be able to 
write, but my heart is so full of exactly 
what our good Dean Bailey so grandly 
expressed to you in his address last night. 
I need only say, don’t forget the message 
he brought you; try to incorporate some 
part of it into everything you do for 
Florida, from this day forth. It takes 
drops of water to make the ocean, and 
your small part and mine shall mean a 
greater and more wonderful world to 
leave behind us. 
While I left the other members of my 
committee to prepare papers to read be¬ 
fore you, I brought with me from my 
own garden, seeds of various plants and 
flowers which I shall be glad to give any¬ 
one who asks for them. 
Thanking you, dear friends, for your 
attention, and the Society for the distinc¬ 
tive honor it conferred on a woman by 
giving her one, so nearly the greatest it 
has to convey, I leave you. 
ORNAMENTALS FOR WINTER 
Edith Louise Hubbard 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : was no article dealing explicitly with win- 
It was because of my unquenchable en- ter ornamentals, that I was told to write 
thusiasm, conspicuous ignorance, persist- this paper, in order that I might learn. I 
ent questions, and finally my statement have not become an authority on the sub- 
that in all the records of the Society there ject yet; on the other hand, I have not lost 
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