Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual 
Meeting of the Florida State 
Horticultural Society 
The proceedings of the Thirtieth An¬ 
nual Session of The Florida State Horti¬ 
cultural Society are presented herewith in 
our Year Book, and the members will find 
the papers read at this session and the dis¬ 
cussions following of more than usual in¬ 
terest. 
The compiler with the ever present cry 
of economy before her, while attempting 
to preserve the germane portion of the 
many interesting discussions, was com¬ 
pelled to eliminate some of the items dis¬ 
cussed, and these omissions from the pro¬ 
ceedings were necessary chiefly to econ¬ 
omize space. 
The papers read and the discussions 
covered a wide range of subjects of the 
utmost interest and importance to our 
membership, and these papers and discus¬ 
sions are made matters of permanent 
record in our Year book, as it is the idea 
of the Society that a complete series of 
this publication will constitute in itself a 
library of Florida Horticulture invaluable 
to the owner. 
Before we closed our session in 1916 at 
Arcadia where we had received so much 
hospitality at the hands of the good peo¬ 
ple there, Air. Biggers, the genial secre¬ 
tary of the West Palm Beach Board of 
Trade, told us that when we came to his 
city we would have just as good a time as 
we had had at Arcadia. 
We all left for the West Palm Beach 
meeting full of expectations and we were 
not disappointed. Those of us who 
passed through the country just north of 
West Palm Beach in the day time felt 
when we drove into the city limits of this 
fair city that Jack Frost had heard that 
we were coming and did not want to 
make us feel gloomy by seeing the effects 
of his icy fingers on every hand, so he 
skipped by West Palm Beach and went 
on with his deadly work further south, 
leaving even the most tropical growth 
practically uninjured. 
The good people themselves were ever 
ready with their automobiles to take the 
members of the society to see the sur¬ 
rounding country, and the musical circle 
delighted us with solos and quartets ev- 
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