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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Mr. President^ Ladies and Gentlemen: 
In making this my first report I regret 
to have to state that the Society has again 
sustained a loss through its secretary. 
We all remember what a lamentable loss 
the Society suffered when our worthy 
Secretary A. H. Manville ceased to meet 
with us as his service had been invaluable. 
We considered ourselves fortunate in se¬ 
curing the help of Mr. Stephen Powers, 
whose residence was unfortunate enougFi 
to be in the track of the resistless fire 
which destroyed the greater part of 
Jacksonville four years ago. Part of the 
Society’s effects were burned during the 
fire at that time but this misfortune was 
small compared with the loss of Secretary 
Powers who passed to his reward on April 
2nd, 1904. 
Your present incumbent, on the 23d of 
last October, had the misfortune of los¬ 
ing his office and its entire contents 
through fire, taking all the Society effects 
then in my possession and leaving me 
without any record as to the memberships 
sent in after last year’s report had gone to 
press. My cash book, however, shows that 
I had to the credit of the Society $90. fo at 
that time. 
I am glad to report that the library be¬ 
longing to the Society is still in existence 
as it was in the office of the Times-Union 
at the time of the Jacksonville conflagra¬ 
tion, and had not been removed at the time 
of my fire. So though we have been un¬ 
fortunate we have some things to be 
thankful for. 
The membership of the Society has kept 
up very well although we are somewhat 
behind last year. I take pleasure in re¬ 
porting as follows: 
Taken in for 1904 reports previous to the fire..$ 90.50 
Taken in after fire of the same year. 30.89 
New life members. 10.00 
New annual members for 1905. 452.00 
Membership fees for 1906. 1-00 
Membersnip fees for 1907. 1-00 
Total .$585.39 
Amount tuned over to Treasurer W. S. Hart.... $585.39 
The membership roll stands as follows: 
New .j^finnual members for 1905. 452 
New annual members for 1905, remittance 
fur which has been made to Treasurer 
Hart . 7 
New life members . 1 
Old life members . 59 
Total . 519 
Of the new annual members for which 
remittance is shown above, 20 were 
turned in by Mr. F. D. Waite, Palmetto 
and 8 by Mrs. C. T. McCarty of Eldred. 
There were quite a number of our other 
members who kindly assisted in getting 
new members. 
I would like to make a motion that the 
name of Mrs. A. H. Manville be added to 
the list of our Life Members. This is a 
small recognition of the services ren¬ 
dered the Society by our former Secretary. 
We all appreciate the work he did and I 
believe the Society will consider it a 
privilege to place the name of Mrs. Man¬ 
ville on our Life Membership list. 
The Societv is indebted to the Board of 
Trade who kindly paid the bill for the 
badges. 
In response to the notices sent out 
to the editors of papers 27 responded by 
issuing notices in their papers about the 
meeting of the Horticultural Society. The 
same are as follows: Times-Union, 
Florida Sun, Metropolis, Florida School 
Exponent, Eustis Lake Region, Florida 
Index, Supplement, De Soto County Ad¬ 
vocate, Pensacola Journal, Florida Ag¬ 
riculturist, St. Augustine Record, Nassau 
County Star, Jasper News, Cocoa & Rock- 
