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many new members it will be a larger 
meeting than this one here. Our prin¬ 
cipal hotel alone will accommodate more 
people than are present here at DeLand, 
and there are four other hotels that have 
accommodations for as many more. We 
can take care of probably 1,000 people at 
our principal hotel, and as many more 
at the other hotels, which are all within 
two blocks, so that you people will all 
be close together, and I know that is 
one of the most important features at a 
meeting of this kind. 
Then there are our three convention 
halls, which are located within one block 
of these hotels, or not much more. If 
there is bad weather (which, of course, 
is rare in Palatka) you will not have 
far to go to attend the meetings. 
We have planned a great many things 
we want you to do; we want to take you 
to Crescent City, up the St. Johns Riv- 
ei, thiough Deep Creek ? across Crescent 
Lake, and give you an all-day picnic out¬ 
ing on the river. If you are so busy you 
cannot stay with us a week, or two 
weeks, you might arrange to hold one 
of your sessions on the boat. That was 
done 1 ecently by one of the newspaper 
men’s conventions. 
Then we want to take you to the Hast¬ 
ings potato section, about eight miles 
fi om Palatka. Potatoes are grown all 
the way from Hastings to Palatka, and 
you will see them growing, or, rather, 
digging potatoes at this time of the year. 
Besides, we want you to see that we 
have more streets paved with brick than 
any place in the United States the size 
of Palatka. We have all brick streets 
there, nothing else. We have not a sin¬ 
gle street paved with anything but brick, 
and you do not get your shoes all dusty. 
We have a Woman’s Club there and 
they have fixed up some of the parks in 
the city. 
I could speak of many other things; 
I could take until 6 o’clock telling you 
everything we are going to do for you. 
The Mayor, the Board of Trade, and ev¬ 
erybody, extend to you a hearty invita¬ 
tion to come to us next year at Palatka. 
I would like to make the motion that 
Palatka be selected as the next place of 
meeting for the Florida Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. (Applause.) 
Mr. Ledbetter: I wish to second the 
motion of Mr. Hamm in selecting Pa¬ 
latka as the next place of meeting. We 
believe we have more advantages to offer 
you than any other city in the State. As 
you know, Crescent City is a famous 
fruit producing and shipping section; the 
second largest in the State. 
In addition to what he has already 
stated to you, it has been stated at this 
meeting that 90,000 barrels of Irish po¬ 
tatoes were shipped last season from the 
Hastings section. It will be 240,000 bar¬ 
rels of potatoes shipped this year. 
Then there is the camphor farm, which 
is near Palatka; 10,000 acres set out in 
camphor trees. It will prove valuable to 
you to be shown what different crops all 
these different lands will produce. 
We request and urge that you will give 
Palatka your favorable consideration in 
passing on where you will hold your next 
convention. 
Mr. Jones: I object to the consid- 
