FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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chincona trees, and at the same time we 
allow the destruction of our useful pines 
by turpentine and lumber men who are 
looking only to their present gains. All 
organizations interested in the prosperity 
of the state should combine in efforts to 
regulate these matters and protect the 
trees. 
Very sincerely, 
Louis A. Lyman. 
Address : 
Melbourne, Fla. 
The President—LFpon discussion of 
this matter, it appears to be the sense of 
of the society that the matter should be 
referred to a special committee on legisla¬ 
tion, to be composed of the present legis¬ 
lative committee with two members added 
thereto, with power to act. The chair will 
therefore name as those additional mem^ 
bers, Mil*. G. W. Wilson and Mr. C. T. 
McCarty. The chair believes that this 
special committee of five, as now con¬ 
stituted, with Mr. Wilson as its chair¬ 
man be able, not only to handle this meas¬ 
ure, but any other effecting the interests of 
the Florida State Horticultural Society 
now before'^the legislature to the best in¬ 
terests of the society and State as well. 
Grove Protection at Time of Cold Waves. 
» 
By W. S, Hart* 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
Can we protect our groves, crop and 
trees, from injury when, as some one 
has put it, ‘‘a cold wave a thousand miles 
wide and ten miles deep sweeps down on 
us from the far Dakotas?’’ Can we do 
this profitably? 
If so, how? 
Nearly every orange grower of this 
state, except in the extreme southern por¬ 
tion, has asked himself and others these 
questions yet, until well within the present 
decade, the answer has been uncertain and 
accompanied with many ‘hf’s.” 
I believe it is now possible to cite a suf¬ 
ficient number of successful cases, under 
widely varying conditions, to warrant the 
assertion that- the first two can be an¬ 
swered with a single affirmative. 
The third may be answered differently 
by different people but I feel sure that the 
method I shall advocate, though not per¬ 
fect, may still be made to answer our needs 
until a better one is discovered. As evi¬ 
dence best known to me I will cite some of 
my own experience in support of the first 
two propositions. 
During the winter of 1901-2 I saved 
$2,000 worth of fruit at an expense of 
not over $65.00 and during the past win¬ 
ter, fighting four nights in succession with 
mercury ranging as low as 18 degrees 
above, and a gale of wind from the north 
all the first night, a heavy wind from the 
south much of the second night and light 
