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interested. I would like to have the vegetable growers help. 

 You all know your Assemblyman. Tell him you need it. 

 Write to the Governor you need it. That is the only way 

 you can get things. I heard someone say the vegetable 

 growers were not exactly pleased because the division was 

 60% and 40%. You realize that the florist's w^ork is all un- 

 der glass, at least very little outside glass. With vegetable 

 growers you have more outside than inside growers. I would 

 like to have the cooperation of the vegetable growers to help 

 us along and get it. There are very few florists today that 

 do not grow some vegetables. Some vegetable growers grow 

 a few flowers, like chrysanthemums. The bill is simply this. 

 We asked for an appropriation of $60,000 for the State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture to build a range of glass houses to teach 

 floriculture and vegetable culture under glass. I put the 

 proviso in that two florists and one vegetable man should con- 

 sult with the architect. We have three hundred forty-seven 

 acres covered with glass in New York. I am a commercial 

 florist, have been for eighteen yesLYS. I have worked up my 

 business from forty thousand to one-quarter of a million this 

 year. We must have facilities, and I believe the florists and 

 the vegetable growers of the State of New York are entitled 

 to this appropriation, so that the professors here can investi- 

 gate diseases, give the ingredients of soil, etc. I ask you once 

 more to help this bill along for the good of the state. 



Mr. GREFFRAT5I : I am very much pleased to hear Mr. 

 Kasting make those remarks, and I feel that every vegetable 

 man is in duty bound to give him a helping hand. I believe 

 that as we go home, each one representing a local organiza- 

 tion should insist that that body instruct their secretary to 

 write encouraging and demanding the passing of this bill. 

 We as vegetable growers are in duty bound to help those en- 

 gaged in about the same lines as we are. The tables may 

 turn. We might want them to help us, the same as we want 

 the potato growers to help us. We all ought to be united for 

 one grand purpose, and that is to investigate the causes of 

 disease and to eradicate it. This covers some of the work 

 the vegetable growers are interested in, the operation of 



