132 
FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
all points; but if it as stock will ‘behave’ 
with all varieties of the citrus family as 
it does with my oldest trees, which are 
good native seedlings budded on the 
Otaheite, I can raise more oranges with 
less trouble and more satisfaction on one 
acre of land planted in these dwarfs than 
I could with any other trees. For 
places where shedding or tent protec¬ 
tion is needed, the dwarfs possess special 
advantages.” 
Good Roads in Florida, 
BY CHARLES HENRY BAKER, OF GRASMERE. 
The modern movement in favor of 
good roads, gaining daily in strength 
and achievement, is what interests us 
here. It is singular that with the Ro¬ 
man roads before them as an object les¬ 
son, it has required some thousands of 
years for the people most familiar with 
them, despite their advance in civiliza¬ 
tion, to make roads approaching them 
in essentials. It is also perhaps as sin¬ 
gular that the good road of to-day is not 
invariably traceable to the Roman road 
as prototype, but has been, largely 
through the improvements in animals 
and in wheeled vehicles, developed in¬ 
dependently alongisde of it. 
The good road of to-day is not the 
same as that of antiquity. This brings 
us to the question, What is a good road 
to-day ? 
A good road to-day, speaking briefly 
and generally, is one as nearly straight 
and level as may be and of adequate 
width, having a smooth, resistant sur¬ 
face, and of such stability in form and 
construction as enables it to withstand 
its customary heavy travel with but 
small cost for maintenance. Though it 
may be said that a road built according 
to such a definition would be difficult of 
realization, if not in many cases and 
places practically impossible, it is never¬ 
theless necessary to establish a standard 
that shall embody the maximum of ad¬ 
vantage, toward the realization of which 
effort shall be directed; and such a 
standard should always be as high as 
possible. Roads have indeed been built 
that conform quite closely to the defi¬ 
nition, carrying out in fact what science 
and experiment have declared to give 
the best results. 
WHAT A GOOD ROAD IS. 
They are broad highways, composed 
of broken stone of uniform size laid on 
a base of finer stone or gravel, and 
steam-rolled to extreme solidity, with a 
hard smooth surface like a floor. From 
their superiority over other roads they 
may be said to be the best of the good 
roads. 
For obvious reasons such roads can- 
