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recollections of our lives are those of 
our childhood homes with the beautiful 
shrubs, flowers and vines. Then we 
owe it to our children as well as to our¬ 
selves that we make our homes as at¬ 
tractive as possible, and this can be 
accomplished quicker and best by let¬ 
ting vines cover the summer houses, 
shade the verandas, cover the other¬ 
wise unsightly fences and other places, 
so that our homes may become verita¬ 
ble things of beauty and a joy forever. 
Henry S. 
Mr . President , Ladies and Gentlemen : 
Let me describe to you the prettiest 
place I have seen in Florida. The place 
is on the narrow strip of land lying 
between the Indian river and ocean, 
and about six miles above the Jupiter 
lighthouse. The general character of 
the land is this : The ocean beach runs 
up quite steep to about twenty feet 
above the sea level; the land then runs 
fairly level toward the river for a dis¬ 
tance of about a hundred yards, then 
it drops off rather abruptly at first and 
gradually afterward until, when it 
reaches the river, another hundred 
yards away, it is only about three feet 
above the water level. The growth on 
the land between the river and the bluff 
was originally a heavy hammock. 
With this general description of the 
land in mind we are now ready to visit 
the place. 
As we land at the wharf, this being 
the only way to reach the spot, the 
first thing we notice is a mass of 
growth along the shore, mostly olean¬ 
ders, with some palmettoes and Span- 
Being a native of this State, with a 
Floridian’s pride in this glorious Land 
of Flowers, I long to see the day when 
all our homes, from Escambia’s land¬ 
locked harbor on the west to the At¬ 
lantic’s roaring billows on the east, 
from the Okefenokee’s tangled jungle 
on the north to the sun-kissed key of 
the Gulf on the south, are garland-en¬ 
twined and rose-embowered, so that 
our lovely State may indeed blossom 
in a manner worthy of her name. 
Pennock. 
ish bayonets mixed in. This is a wind¬ 
break. From the end of the wharf ex¬ 
tends an avenue of grass leading up 
to the house on the top of the bluff 
some hundred yards away. The avenue 
is lined on each side with palms, Phoe¬ 
nix canariensis, with acalyphas be¬ 
tween and long flower beds in front of 
each row of palms, with some small 
flowering plant in them like nastur¬ 
tiums or sweet alyssum. As you walk 
up this avenue from the wharf you 
come to a cross avenue; you stop and 
turn to the left and look, and you stand 
and look, and look, for the sight is a 
magnificent one. 
The avenue is lined with cocoanut 
palms on each side, fine, big ones, with 
their leaves almost touching in the 
middle overhead, and the view is a long 
one, too, for more than one man has 
continued this avenue. Between the 
cocoanuts are hibiscus trimmed to low 
bushes and acalyphas treated the same 
way, with the green grass between and 
the bright red of the hibiscus blossoms. 
They are always in flower in the win- 
