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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Federal Horticultural Board, Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., that the stock they received 
from Florida had been exposed to infec¬ 
tion by canker. 
EAST COAST INFECTIONS. 
Pompano —Messrs. Henry and O'Byrne 
discovered a large infection at this place 
early last fall. The infection involves ap¬ 
proximately 200 trees. None of these 
trees have been burned as the owner be¬ 
lieves he is going to show us how to eradi¬ 
cate canker without destroying the trees. 
He has sprayed them with Bordeaux and 
other dopes, many of which the trained 
plant pathologist has long ago cast aside 
as useless. But the owner refuses to be 
advised. Fortunately his grove is iso¬ 
lated by at least five miles from any other 
grove and being off the road the danger 
of the disease spreading from it to other 
groves is much lessened. There is no law 
to compel the owner to eradicate the dis¬ 
ease, except, perhaps, that through a long 
process of litigation, it could be declared 
a public nuisance. 
Other East Coast Infections —Messrs. 
Henry and O’Byrne, and later Mr. 
O'Byrne by himself, have found infec¬ 
tions at Boynton, Stuart, Micco, Tillman, 
and Cocoa. In so far as the writer is 
aware, nothing need be feared from these 
infections as all diseased trees are burned 
as soon as found, and only a few have 
been found recently, so that we look for¬ 
ward to an early eradication of the dis¬ 
ease in these places. 
WEST COAST INFECTIONS. 
Slight infections have been found at 
Elfers by Messrs Hunter and Clark, at 
Largo by Mr. J. A. Miller, 'at Alva (Lee 
county), by Prof. H. E. Stevens, and at 
Edge and Ft. Myers, (DeSoto county), 
by Mr. D. M. Badger. All of these 
infections were promptly burned and pre¬ 
sumably eradicated as no new infections 
have been found, except at Elfers, where 
a few trees have recently been found; but 
we expect these to be the last and do not 
fear the outcome. 
WEST FLORIDA INFECTIONS. 
No canker has been found at Monti- 
cello since December when a few infected 
trees were discovered in town and burned. 
None of the nurseries doing a citrus busi¬ 
ness there now ever had canker. The 
nurseries and the groves near and about 
town have been repeatedly inspected by 
Messrs. Nelson, Hainlin, and Daniel, 
since October, 1914, and all indications 
are that canker at Monticello is a thing of 
the past. 
Other infections in West Florida were 
found near Paxton by Mr. Nelson and by 
Mr. Daniel at Cottage Hill, Santa Rosa, 
and Galliver. Due to the rather extensive 
defoliation of small citrus trees and young 
citrus trees here, inspection work was sus¬ 
pended after December but has recently 
been resumed. We are therefore not so 
well informed on the situation in extreme 
West Florida as in the rest of the state. 
THE GULF STATES. 
In Alabama, beginning in November, 
683,359 citrus orchard trees (441,116 
Satsuma, 242,243 miscellaneous), have 
been inspected in Mobile county. Sixty- 
one orchards and five nurseries were 
found more or less infected. Infected 
