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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Don’t fill up holes in old seedling trees 
with cement, without first having all the 
old dead and rotten wood taken out, for 
the reason that the cement will do abso¬ 
lutely no good. Dry rot will set in and 
you can accomplish nothing whatever, by 
simply putting a cover over the hole, 
while the real damage is being done un¬ 
derneath by decay on the inside. I have 
seen several groves where this cement 
work on trees has been provep a failure 
for the reason that from the surface ev¬ 
erything looked good and sound, but de¬ 
cay was fast rotting away the inside of 
the tree, I believe that the best method 
that I have seen has been to chisel or cut 
out all the affected parts and leave them 
exposed to the air and sunlight. 
Hume: Is there any discussion of 
this paper at this time? I would like to 
appoint two committes at this time, first, 
the Committee on Final Resolutions— 
\ 
Messrs. Edgar A. Wright, R. L. Goodwin 
and S. F. Poole, and an Auditing Com¬ 
mittee to consist of M. G. Campbell, J. G. 
Grosse.nbacher and G. W. Peterkin. Be¬ 
fore going on with this morning’s pro¬ 
gram, Dr. Mark Sample has a matter 
which he wishes to present to the Society 
and I will give him an opportunity to do 
so at this time. 
Dr. Mark Sample.: A number of 
months ago we growers of Polk County 
from Haines City to Sebring assembled 
together as the Association of Boards of 
Trade, and talked over a matter which 
finally resulted in a committee of three 
being appointed to draft a bill to be 
known as “Pest Control Act,” which we 
hoped to have passed in this Legislature, 
A number of years ago a bill very simi¬ 
lar to this was started but when the Plant 
Board learned that the functioning of 
this law if put into effect would come 
within the jurisdiction of the various 
County Boards of Commissioners of the 
counties they immediately took steps, 
which was right, to kill the bill. We 
have in this State perhaps the best func¬ 
tioning Plant Board in the United States. 
A little over a year ago in my travels in 
California I heard it very favorably 
spoken of by the Californians and when¬ 
ever they go to the limit to say anything 
good of any other country they are going 
some; and they certainly complimented 
the Plant Board of Florida in that they 
said they had watched it very closely and 
tried to follow. Being one of the com¬ 
mittee to draft this bill, I got in touch 
with the Plant Board and they tentatively 
drafted a bill which they thought would 
meet our requirements as growers and 
still bring it within the functioning of the 
Plant Board to put into effect. 
Some may want to know why we didn’t 
include all the diseases and pests. You 
could not do that if you were going to 
have your county commissioners put it 
into effect or if you were going to leave 
it to your growers to exercise. There¬ 
fore, they have only included in this bill 
such pests and diseases as it is possible 
for the grower, under the instructions of 
the Plant Board, to eradicate or control. 
For instance, you could not, as a grower, 
eradicate citrus canker as has been done, 
nor the black fly and some others; so 
the Plant Board has seen fit to include in 
this bill only such as can be controlled 
by the grower himself under the instruc¬ 
tions from the. Plant Board. If we should 
