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son’s vegetable and truck crop from our 
section of the state. This traffic is taken 
from our section of the state by the train¬ 
load, to say nothing of the other sec¬ 
tions. The tomatO' crop this season has 
been the best in the history of that sec¬ 
tion and tomato growers as a rule have 
made lots and cords of money. There 
has also been good money made in Irish 
potatoes. I recall one notable instance 
where a trucker made nearly $2,000 from 
his Irish potato patch. Altogether, the 
lower East Coast country has enjoyed 
an unprecedented season in the vegeta¬ 
ble business. Of course, the early cold 
snap set ?ome of the truckers back but 
replanting soon recuperated them and 
they got their crops to market ahead of 
everything else, and sold at good prices. 
I would particularly call the attention 
of the society ^r-nd the truck growers of 
the state to the Bermuda onion. It was . 
at one time thought that this onion could 
not be grown successfully in Florida. 
This is a great fallacy, as has been de¬ 
monstrated by later experiments with this 
crop, especially with last season’s crop. 
It was also contended that it would com¬ 
pete with the Bermuda crop and this has 
also been dispelled. The onion thrives 
well on the lower East Coast. It gets to 
market before the Bermuda crop of the 
Bermuda Island and is a big money 
maker. 
Report of Committee on Ornamentals. 
By Mrs. C. T. McCarty. 
Mr. President^ Ladies and Gentlemen: 
In our school days, long ago—so long 
ago that I dread counting the years 
which have since passed—we learned 
that one proof of man’s superiority over 
all other animals lies in his ability to rise 
above the limitations of locality. To 
the far ends of the earth, north, south, 
east and west, he reaches out, and brings 
unto himself, what is called for, either by 
his fancy or by his complex needs. Look¬ 
ing about with a critical eye he grasps 
the suggested possibilities of nature and 
turns the knowledge to his own account; 
he sees on one hand a scarcity which he 
makes abundance; on the other a su¬ 
perfluity which he modifies. He, of 
course, puts forth the greater effort for 
material return, but at the same time la¬ 
bors, faithfully and continuously to ex¬ 
press, in an alliance with Nature, the artist 
love, in-born in human hearts; that desire 
to create “a fairer creation than we know,” 
to omit the prose, the details of nature 
and produce the spirit and splendor. 
It has been truly said that “he who 
knows the most, he who knows what 
sweets and virtues are in the ground, the 
waters, the plants, * * and how to come 
at these enchantments—is the rich and 
royal man. Only so far as the masters 
of the world have called in Nature to 
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