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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
are many excellent publications that give 
designs and instructions for building indi¬ 
vidual and artistic homes, which might 
be subscribed for and kept on file in the 
club rooms. The little kodak is a friend 
that can be of unlimited value where club 
members are visiting in different parts 
of the country and have the opportunity 
of bringing back photographs of artistic 
homes and public buildings that have 
something unusual to recommend them. 
In my own town our school association 
bought sixty tropical trees for the grounds 
of our new school house. We had a man 
hired to prepare the holes for these trees, 
and then I went up to the school and tak¬ 
ing three or four children for each tree, 
had them set it out, gave them a little talk 
about its character, the feeding and wa¬ 
tering of it, then numbered it and painted 
its name on the fence close by, and record¬ 
ed the names of the planters in a book 
kept for that purpose. We have just fin¬ 
ished a fine cement walk of 400 feet along 
the street in front of the school grounds, 
and we plan to have the sod between the 
walk and the fence broken up and divided, 
so that each room may have a certain 
number of feet to plant in low growing 
annuals next fall. We will probably use 
such plants as Nasturtiums, Candytuft, 
Phlox, Verbenas and Gaillafdias. 
At different times we have bought 
seeds of tropical trees, made them up 
in small packets and distributed them 
among our 250 white and 100 colored 
children. These seeds were also sent to 
ladies in the town whose homes showed 
an interest in flowers. 
This work lies within the compass of 
any one woman to perform or for a club 
to take up, and where it becomes the in¬ 
terest of an organized body of a few or 
many women results should be multiplied 
accordingly. 
Our town council has plans for plant¬ 
ing each street with one kind of tropical 
trees, and the property owners along the 
streets have agreed to stand the expense 
for this themselves. Years ago this might 
have been done if we had not permitted 
stock to run at large and eat up hundreds 
of dollars worth of fine shrubbery. This 
regulation of stock must be met by any 
community that wishes to beautify its 
streets, parks and residence grounds. The 
women can force this issue as easily as 
the men. 
With the suggestions that I have out¬ 
lined, the smallest hamlet may start in, 
working along lines that are capable of 
changing the whole face of Florida in 
five years’ time. 
The spot in every town that carries 
the most widespread influence is the rail¬ 
road depot and its grounds. First impres¬ 
sions, or those we get in passing through 
a strange place in a train, often influence 
us in favor of or against a town. An 
attractive and artistic greeting from a 
railroad train will pay a larger return 
on the investment than any other outlay 
of money and time. 
Co-operation and a few ideals will ac¬ 
complish all that you and I desire for our 
Sunny Florida. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Hamm: I wish to endorse this 
paper and say that Palatka has the ad¬ 
vantage of having a Woman’s Club just 
