FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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towns want, and many of them do want 
it, there is no way in which the right sort 
of publicity can be secured so well as by 
doing these things in the right way. 
And do not forget that every home 
owner by roadside or on city street has his 
large opportunity in helping to build a 
more beautiful state. What is it that 
makes a beautiful street? Is it not houses 
of fitting design and well planted, well 
cared for lawns and yards? Certainly 
these are the things that make beautiful 
our home surroundings, which make them 
better places in which to live, these arc the 
things that make beautiful pictures to lin¬ 
ger longer in the memories of those so 
fortunate as to see them. 
With you as members of this society, let 
me leave this thought, that to make more 
beautiful the State in which we live, is at 
once a high privilege and a duty. Let us 
make up for many plants and trees that 
have been destroyed by planting others in 
the places where we live and work, and 
along the roads we travel and so bring a 
more surpassing beauty to this Land of 
Flowers—our Florida. 
