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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
ers they will find Jacksonville grown to 
be a very large city and the State of Flori¬ 
da to be the most densely populated State 
in the Union. I say this because we have 
everything here necessary to sustain a 
large and dense population, besides the 
State has now come to be known as the 
world’s sanitarium. 
By George W. Wilson. 
After listening to the eloquent address¬ 
es that have been delivered you this even¬ 
ing, I feel unable to add thereto. I hope 
however to always be able to respond to 
anything that will be of interest to the 
Florida State Horticultural Society. I 
congratulate the society upon the large at¬ 
tendance at the opening of this it’s eigh¬ 
teenth annual session. I am not only in 
sympathy with the great work of this so¬ 
ciety, but I was once an ardent horticul¬ 
turist myself, until varying vicissitudes 
of life cast my lot in another direction, 
that of journalism, during all of which 
time I have never failed to take advantage 
of every opportunity to foster and en¬ 
courage your every welfare. I consider 
the history of the development of this 
State largely the history of the horticul¬ 
turist; that it is largely due to the en¬ 
deavor and achievement of the Horticul¬ 
tural Society that has given the great 
State of Florida the renown she to-day 
enjoys, and as it has justly been said, in 
your future endeavor and achievement 
rests in a great degree the name and fame 
of our State. When I speak in these 
terms I speak with a great deal of signifi¬ 
cance, for I am informed that nearly 85 
per cent of the horticulturists are college 
men, you are therefore prepared by ex¬ 
perience, education, and training to cope 
with the greatest interests for the welfare 
of the State unhampered by political 
affiliations or hurtful partisan motives. 
